In Thursday’s (7/19) Detroit Free Press, Mark Stryker reports, “The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has one more week of activity before turning dark for the rest of the summer. Earlier this week, the orchestra’s musicians inaugurated a new program—the Avanti Summer MusicFest Workshop. It’s a session of intensive coaching, master classes and rehearsals for about 140 local students ages 14 to 18. As part of the program, about 50 DSO musicians are performing in public concerts that promise to cap the students’ instruction while playing to Detroit’s classical music audiences. Tonight’s concert features a chamber ensemble performing Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A, Samuel Barber’s String Quartet, Op. 11, and Howard Hanson’s Serenade for Flute, Harp and Strings. … On Friday, conductor Clark Suttle leads the Avanti Festival Chamber Orchestra in a program of Mozart, Karl Jenkins and Aaron Copland. Of special note is Copland’s ‘Quiet City’ with soloists Shelley Heron on English horn and Stephen Anderson on trumpet. Mozart’s beloved Symphony No. 40 completes the program.”
Posted July 20, 2012
