NATCHITOCHES – Winners of the annual NSU Concerto Competition will be featured at a concert on Wednesday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Tickets are $16.50 each and are available at https://nnssla.org/ticket-sales. NSU, BPCC@NSU and Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts students are admitted free with a current student I.D. A livestream will be available at nsula.edu/capa/capalivestream.
Douglas Bakenhus is the music director, Syll-Young Olson is assistant director and Sofiko Tchetchelashvili is the instructor
This concert features concerto winners which are a horn quartet consisting of Douglas Flores, Jelsson Flores, Angie Mejia, Carley Johnson, Hallie Ward on flute, Pattie Murr on tuba and tenor Douglas Flores.
The orchestra will perform “The Impresario Overture” by Mozart, “Concert Piece for 4 Horns” by Robert Schumann featuring the horn quartet of Jelson Flores, Mejia, Douglas Flores and Carley Johnson, “Ballade for Flute, String Orchestra, and Piano” by Frank Martin featuring Ward and “Horn Concerto No.1” by Richard Strauss featuring Murr, “’De’ miei bollenti spiriti’” (“My Passionate spirit’) from “La Traviata” by Giuseppe Verdi featuring Douglas Flores and “Hungarian Dance No. 5” by Johannes Brahms. The concert will conclude with “Pines of Rome” by Ottorino Respighi.
The 2023-24 season, “Symphony in the Key of Love,” will honor the late arts philanthropist and former Natchitoches-Northwestern Symphony Society co-founder and former president Jim Bob Key. Each concert will have selections dedicated to Key. After serving as the second president of the Symphony Society in 1968-1969, Key was a lifetime member of its board of directors. He served on the National Council of the Metropolitan Opera and the regional boards of the Shreveport Symphony and Shreveport Opera. He was a member of the Louisiana State Arts Council, which founded the Louisiana Outdoor Drama Association amphitheater located at Grand Ecore. He was inducted in the NSU Creative and Performing Arts Hall of Fame in 2014 and selected a Natchitoches Treasure in 2015.
