Summer Showcase to conclude season with concert Sept. 4
Summer Showcase will conclude its 2011 entertainment season with a crowd-pleasing finale Sept. 4, at 7 p.m., as the Tuscarawas Philharmonic presents its annual Pops in the Park concert in the Tuscora Park Amphitheater. Always an audience favorite, the free concert features entertaining and upbeat selections from marches to movie music.
The Philharmonic is concluding its 75th Diamond Anniversary Year of continuous existence and conductor Eric Benjamin, his 15th season as music director of the orchestra. Formerly resident conductor of the Akron Symphony, Benjamin has served as music director and conductor of the Akron Youth Symphony, as well as the Dover Schools orchestra program, and on the faculty of Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Currently, in addition to the Philharmonic, he is music director and conductor of the Canton Youth Symphony and the Alliance Symphony.
The Philharmonic presents a concert season annually, featuring the orchestra, the Philharmonic Chorus and the Children’s Chorus, and area artists, as well as artists of national and international renown in concerts varying from classical symphonic repertoire to pops. The 2010-2011 season was the first in the new Performing Arts Center at Kent State Tuscarawas. The 2011-2012 season will open Oct. 29 with a concert titled A Musical Mystery Tour: Creepy Classics.
For the Showcase concert, Benjamin has chosen a rousing and varied program. He “likes to program things that show folks who might not have attended a Tuscarawas Philharmonic concert that you can have fun with a symphony orchestra.”
As has been its tradition, the orchestra will open with the Star Spangled Banner and play its way through such familiar tunes as Russian Sailors Dance and Funeral March of a Marionette to movie music favorites like Pirates of the Caribbean and the delightfully boisterous Cowboys Overture and much-loved selections from Phantom of the Opera. Some lively pieces such as Carnation Rag and Fiddler’s Day should get toes tapping and the cicadas going.
The Philharmonic will conclude its concert, which begins at 7 p.m., with its traditional playing of the musical fireworks built into John Philip Sousa’s Star and Stripes Forever.
The Philharmonic’s appearance is sponsored in part by The Times Reporter, The John and Orlena Marsh Foundation, New Dawn Retirement Community, Barbour Publishing, The City of New Philadelphia, and RTY, with Dutch Valley/Der Dutchman/The Carlisle Inns.
The Philharmonic is concluding its 75th Diamond Anniversary Year of continuous existence and conductor Eric Benjamin, his 15th season as music director of the orchestra. Formerly resident conductor of the Akron Symphony, Benjamin has served as music director and conductor of the Akron Youth Symphony, as well as the Dover Schools orchestra program, and on the faculty of Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Currently, in addition to the Philharmonic, he is music director and conductor of the Canton Youth Symphony and the Alliance Symphony.
The Philharmonic presents a concert season annually, featuring the orchestra, the Philharmonic Chorus and the Children’s Chorus, and area artists, as well as artists of national and international renown in concerts varying from classical symphonic repertoire to pops. The 2010-2011 season was the first in the new Performing Arts Center at Kent State Tuscarawas. The 2011-2012 season will open Oct. 29 with a concert titled A Musical Mystery Tour: Creepy Classics.
For the Showcase concert, Benjamin has chosen a rousing and varied program. He “likes to program things that show folks who might not have attended a Tuscarawas Philharmonic concert that you can have fun with a symphony orchestra.”
As has been its tradition, the orchestra will open with the Star Spangled Banner and play its way through such familiar tunes as Russian Sailors Dance and Funeral March of a Marionette to movie music favorites like Pirates of the Caribbean and the delightfully boisterous Cowboys Overture and much-loved selections from Phantom of the Opera. Some lively pieces such as Carnation Rag and Fiddler’s Day should get toes tapping and the cicadas going.
The Philharmonic will conclude its concert, which begins at 7 p.m., with its traditional playing of the musical fireworks built into John Philip Sousa’s Star and Stripes Forever.
The Philharmonic’s appearance is sponsored in part by The Times Reporter, The John and Orlena Marsh Foundation, New Dawn Retirement Community, Barbour Publishing, The City of New Philadelphia, and RTY, with Dutch Valley/Der Dutchman/The Carlisle Inns.
Published: August 29, 2011
