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Wizardry Runs Amok on February's Winter Concert

***Alexandria Weets***
***Young Artist 2012***

A sorcerer and his apprentice, a magical swan-princess, a magic flute, and a wizard-to-be and his friends bring a special bewitching flavor to the February Winter Concert. Add to this cauldron whatever brew our Young Artist soloist may put into the kettle, and the CSO has on tap a supernatural evening of great music. The concert opens with Paul Dukas' celebrated The Sorcerer's Apprentice, followed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's captivating Overture to The Magic Flute.

A suite taken from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Nicholas Hooper in an arrangement by Jerry Brubaker opens the second half of the concert. And the concert concludes with a bit of Russian zest, served up in a suite drawn from one of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's most colorful operas, The Tale of the Tsar Saltan.

Our Young Artist auditions winner Alexandria Weets, Morrison High School senior, will perform with the orchestra Tableaux de Provence for alto saxophone by Paule Maurice. Sterling High School senior Sarah Wolber, soprano, took the honorable mention honors. (Read more)

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Antonín Dvořák Featured in Spring Concert 2012

Moisés Molina
Violoncello

The CSO's Spring Concert is all Antonín Dvořák and three of his most inspired creations: Slavonic Dances, Czech Suite in D major, Op 39, and the glorious Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104, with Dr. Moisés Molina of Western Illinois University as the soloist.

The two dances from Slavonic Dances, Op 46 and the Czech Suite, Op 39 are works by the composer that pay homage to his homeland. They are filled with tuneful allusions to his country's native dance and culture. The third and featured work on the program is one that arose from Dvorak's three-year tenure as head of the newly established National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City. The Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104 has become a mainstay of the violoncello repertoire since its premiere in 1895.

Moisés Molina has had a long and successful teaching and solo performance career. He is, in addition to his teaching, an active and consummate artist both in chamber recitals and in orchestral repertoire.

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