Staff Report
The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Youth Orchestras will open their 2014-15 season Monday, Nov. 10, with a concert featuring the Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gary Wilkes.
Student soloist Nacor Lantigua, who won second place in the 2014 Concerto Competition, will be featured in the first movement of Concerto for Vibraphone by Séjourné during the program.
If you go> What: CSO Youth Orchestras’ fall concert.> When: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10; doors open at 6:30 p.m.> Where: Ringgold High School, 29 Tiger Trail, Ringgold, Ga.> Admission: $6 adults, $4 children, students, seniors.> Phone: 423-267-9011.
The 17-year-old percussionist born in the Dominican Republic, is a senior at Cleveland High School, where he plays in the Concert Band and Jazz Band. He is in his fourth season with the CSO Youth Orchestras.
Other selections will include Glinka’s “Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla” and the third and fourth movements of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade,” considered one of the most beautiful of all orchestral compositions.
The music, inspired by the “Arabian Nights” folk tales, depicts the legendary Sultana and her attempt to stay alive by spinning nightly tales to distract her fearful husband.
Opening the concert, which starts at 7:30 p.m. at Ringgold High School, will be the CSOYO Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sandy Morris.
The musicians will feature works from Brahms, Bishop, Tchaikovsky and Holst, as well as a standard for developing orchestras by Robert W. Smith that should be of interest to local audiences.
His “Great Locomotive Chase” is based on an actual event that took place near Ringgold, Ga., during the Civil War when Union spies attempted to destroy railroad tracks and bridges between Marietta and Chattanooga.