Classical Sounds with a Southern Flair
2007 - 2008 Subscription Series
Join Maestro Patricio Cobos, Music Director and Conductor. and the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra for a season of Classical Sounds with a Southern Flair. Featured during the 2007-08 LSO season are two LaGrange natives whose local roots span several generations and a native Georgian whose recent composition will make its LaGrange premiere. In February, mezzo-soprano Emily Landa performs favorite arias from her personal repertoire, and the orchestra will perform Georgia native Douglas Hooker's "Sinai Symphony." In April, violinist Callie Hammond will close the season with a stirring performance of Bruch's "Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor."
October 9, 2007
Grand Opening
 | Anastasia Agapova, violin We launch our new season with three Romantic masterworks, bearing all the excitement and passion that an evening can hold. The heroic drama of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony and the flash of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto join Weber’s vibrant Der Freischűtz Overture, which hints how Wagner might have sounded had he belonged to his father’s generation. |
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November 6. 2007
A Romantic Evening
 | Andre Chiang, baritone Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony is the twenty-year-old German composer’s musical reaction to a hiking tour of the Highlands, with its evocative blend of bagpipe-inspired melodies, majestic castles, and dramatic warlike marches. It shares our program with a varied mix of opera arias and songs, as well as the high-spirits of Lehar’s overture to The Merry Widow. |
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December 11, 2007
Christmas with the LSO & Sons of Lafayette
Sons of Lafayette Male Choir
 | Constatin Barcov, bassoon For the first time ever, the LSO joins forces with the Sons of Lafayette Male Choir to provide a program of holiday music guaranteed to be better than any gift you’ll find under the tree. Sharing the program will be a variety of seasonal favorites. The orchestra will also perform Hummell's Bassoon Concerto and Duke Ellington's jazzy twist on familiar themes from Tchaikovsaky's The Nutcraker. |
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February 5, 2008
American Celebration
 | Emily Landa, mezzo-soprano American music reaches far beyond Sousa marches, as this program will prove. The energy of Leonard Bernstein and Morton Gould will be joined by a recent symphony from Georgia composer Douglas Hooker. American composers were slow to arrive on the world scene, but in the last century, they’ve made their mark. Emily Landa will be performing songs from Aaron Copland's "Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson." |
 | Douglas Hooker, composer "a very well crafted composition, brimming with energy and imagination, intriguing rhythms and rich colors, evocative of Doug's impressions and experience of his journey to the Middle East and the Holy Land." Lisa P. Patrick, Executive Assistant Georgia Conservancy |
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April 15, 2008
Grand Finale
Callie Hammond, violin Three beloved favorites share the evening: Mozart’s buoyant Magic Flute Overture familiar from “Amadeus;” Bruch’s vibrant First Violin Concerto, so popular in his time that the composer begged violinists to play something else for a change; and Brahms’ Second Symphony, with echoes of his familiar Lullaby reworked through this master’s unequalled touch with a grand melody. 
| All LSO subscription concerts start at 7:30 pm in Callaway Auditorium, LaGrange, GA. |  |