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The Christmas Show, December 6, 2008
Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel (excerpts) Vaughn Williams Greensleeves Dragon Away in a Manger Dragon God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Tyzik Silent Night Dragon Carol of the Bells Dragon We Wish You a Merry Christmas Kallman A Holiday Hoedown
read moreLove Songs, March 13, 2010
Flower Song “Carmen” E lucevan le stelle “Tosca” Nessun dorma “Turandot” La donna e mobile “Rigoletto” Espana Chabrier
read moreBroadway! March 21, 2009
John and Nancy Williams Shuffle bring a wealth of performing experience to their theater and concert appearances having collectively essayed over 150 leading roles in their combined stage careers. The couple has regularly delighted audiences, both at home and abroad, with their versatility, magnetism, and endearing musical repertoire. About John Shuffle critics have said he has a “rich, substantial voice and expressive nuances” and a “vocal quality that is too seldom heard.” Reviewers have glowed about Nancy Shuffle...
read moreVoices of Spring, May 8, 2010
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read moreLegendary Classics, May 9, 2009
Michi Wiancko Violinist Michi Wiancko is a winner of the 2002 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Featured as an “Artist to Watch” on the cover of the January 2007 issue of Symphony magazine, the Cleveland Plain Dealer credits her with playing that “melts seamlessly into tender utterances.” Wiancko, a Southern Californian, holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Juilliard School where she studied with Robert Mann. She has earned an international reputation for her performances...
read moreMedia Archives: 2008-09 OVS Season
The Ohio Valley Symphony’s 2008-09 Season The Ohio Valley Symphony is gearing up for another year of doing what it does best — bringing great music played by great artists to southeast Ohio. For its 19th subscription season, the OVS, under music director Ray Fowler, will carry listeners around the world with the help of tunes of a diverse lineup of classics. From composers in 19th-century Vienna to 20th-century America, the pieces evoke destinations as close as the barnyard and as far away as the islands of the South Pacific, the...
read moreBroadway! March 12, 2011
Margaret Carlson, Soprano Often compared to Julie Andrews and Maureen McGovern, Margaret Carlson is an exciting new voice in the contemporary music. Her eclectic career has taken her from life “on the road” with the band, Summer, to ten years as a stay-at-home mom. Re-establishing her music career in 1986, Carlson’s second CD, This Christmas…my favorite things, received a Grammy nomination in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category. BROADWAY By Thomas Consolo Melt away the last of winter’s chill in...
read moreMendelssohn, April 30, 2011
Ilya Kaler, violin Described as a “magician, bewitching our ears,” Russian-born violinist Ilya Kaler is the only violinist to have won gold medals at the Tchaikovsky (1986), Sibelius (1985), and Paganini (1981) Competitions. Currently professor of violin at DePaul University School of Music (Chicago, IL), he performs on a 1785 “Sennhauser” Giuseppe Guarnerius del Gesu violin on loan from the Stradivari Society of Chicago. Violin Concerto, Op. 64 Mendelssohn Midsummernight’s Dream Mendelssohn Press Release:...
read moreMOSTLY MENDELSSOHN!
October 2, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. Concert will be at Wedge Auditorium at Pt. Pleasant WV Jr./Sr. High School. Purchase Tickets Now We re-open The Ohio Valley Symphony season as we celebrate the life of Ariel Board President Paul Simon when his longtime family friend, Elizabeth Pitcairn, joins The Ohio Valley Symphony in a program of Mostly Mendelssohn. This season opens with Mendelssohn’s energizing and uplifting Symphony No. 4 and Elizabeth performs the much loved Concerto for Violin, Op. 64, under the baton of Maestro Scott Woodard. Purchase...
read moreBIG BAND BLAST!
November 6, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. Concert will be at Wedge Auditorium at Pt. Pleasant WV Jr./Sr. High School Purchase Tickets Now 75 years ago at the end of World War II the music style of the Big Band era was flourishing and Cleveland Pops conductor Carl Topilow will lead the The Ohio Valley Symphony through a rousing romp of the stylings of Glenn Miller, Hoagie Carmichael, Irvin Berlin and other big band greats. In this Veterans Day celebration, Carl will invoke the spirit of Benny Goodman when he picks up his clarinet and joins in the fun....
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