On 25 January 2011 James Brooks-Bruzzese directs the Symphony of the Americas in Von Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture, Beethoven's Symphony No 4 and Paganini's Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor (with violinist Laszlo Pap) at the Amaturo Theater in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Cirque de La Symphonie on 13 and 14 February features music by Dvorák, Saint-Saëns, Rossini, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Chabrier, Grieg, Vivaldi, Smetana, Rimsky-Korsakov, Bach and Bizet. Brooks-Bruzzese conducts Weber's Invitation to the Dance, Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite No 1, Excerpts from Glazunov's Raymonda and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 in G (with soloist Enrique Graf) on 22 March. The season concludes on 12 April 2011 with a program of excerpts from opera and the Broadway theater with tenors Frank D'Ambrosio and Eduardo Aladren, sopranos Courtney Budd and Kam Cheng and the Dance Alive National Ballet, Kim Tuttle, director. For information, see www.symphonyoftheamericas.org |