Have you seen the interview with opera superstar Samuel Ramey in today's Link section of the Argus yet? Here's a link to the article online.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Argus Interviews Samuel Ramey
Have you seen the interview with opera superstar Samuel Ramey in today's Link section of the Argus yet? Here's a link to the article online.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
SDPB Interview with Samuel Ramey
In case you missed it, here's a link to a recording of opera superstar Samuel Ramey's radio interview with South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Ramey will be performing with the SDSO this Saturday.
Samuel Ramey is an international opera star with South Dakota connections. He married local soprano Lindsey Larson in 2002 at First Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls and their wedding reception was at the Washington Pavilion, where Saturday's concert will take place.
Operas usually feature a high-voiced tenor as the hero and a low-voiced bass as the villain. Since Samuel Ramey is a bass-baritone, most of the music written for his vocal range are the bad-guy roles. His performance with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra is a collection of some of the best villain music in opera history and is appropriately titled A Date with the Devil. Everyone loves a bad boy.
The concert takes place this Saturday, January 16th at 8pm in the Great Hall of the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, SD. Tickets are available by calling the Symphony office at 605.335.7933, toll-free at 866.681.7376, online at sdsymphony.org or at the door prior to the concert.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Listen to the SDSO on the radio and online this Christmas
Listen for the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra on the South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB) radio airwaves this Christmas!
SDPB will play portions of Handel's Messiah from one of our past Holiday Pops concerts on Christmas Eve morning from 9am to 10am in a special called "The Best of South Dakota Holiday Music." Tune in to hear selections from this year's Holiday Pops concert on Christmas Eve night from 9pm to 10pm and Christmas morning from 11am to Noon.
The radio broadcast is also streamed live through the SDPB website so you can listen to the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra online from your computer anywhere this Christmas may find you.
SDPB will play portions of Handel's Messiah from one of our past Holiday Pops concerts on Christmas Eve morning from 9am to 10am in a special called "The Best of South Dakota Holiday Music." Tune in to hear selections from this year's Holiday Pops concert on Christmas Eve night from 9pm to 10pm and Christmas morning from 11am to Noon.
The radio broadcast is also streamed live through the SDPB website so you can listen to the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra online from your computer anywhere this Christmas may find you.
Tune in to CBS on Christmas Eve to hear the SDSO in the national broadcast of "Christmas at the Cathedral"
A special one-hour broadcast of highlights from the popular local production, Christmas at The Cathedral will be broadcast nationally on the CBS television network on Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24. This special commercial-free broadcast will air nationally after the local news (10:35 PM - 11:35 PM, CT; 11:35 PM - 12:35 AM, ET/PT).
“CBS finds Christmas at The Cathedral to be a wonderful, broadly-based and welcoming broadcast. Everyone is invited into the Cathedral, reaches both Christians and non-Christians,” said Jack Blessington, Executive Producer for CBS in New York. “So many people from such various backgrounds and religions responded positively to the Christmas at The Cathedral broadcast in 2006. We are happy to have it back.”
This is the third time in the past four years that Christmas at The Cathedral has aired on national network television. The NBC television network provided Christmas at The Cathedral to its affiliates in 2007, in addition to a CBS network broadcast in 2006, in which it was carried by 203 affiliates and satellite stations from across the country. The positive response from viewers led to this year’s invitation to air a special broadcast of highlights from the past four years.
“We are honored to be able to celebrate the incredible story of Christmas with the rest of the country from right here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota,” said Mark Conzemius, producer and director of Christmas at The Cathedral. “It is a tribute to the talent of our local artists, to the extraordinary beauty of the Cathedral, the generosity of our local business community that make Christmas at The Cathedral possible. But most of all, I believe it is a because of the powerful message and community-wide celebration of Christ’s birth.”
Christmas at The Cathedral – Beacon of Hope, features the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor emeritus, Henry Charles Smith. World-renown tenor Scott Piper, who lives in Vermillion, performs O Holy Night and Thy Will Be Done, a special song written for St Joseph Cathedral by local composer, Dan Goeller. Soprano Emily Lodine, from Magnolia, MN, joins Piper in a beautiful rendition of Let There be Peace on Earth. Soprano Stacey Stofferahn, who studied at Augustana College, will perform Emmanuel, God With Us with video by local producer, Kirby Schultz, to enrich this moving concert broadcast.
Concert pianist, Paul Sanchez, an O+Gorman High School graduate, teams up with Piper in an inspirational rendition of the Ave Maria. Triplet trumpeters, The Stoneback Sisters, who once lived in Sioux Falls, begin and end the concert with grand fanfare. In a special candlelit section dedicated to children around the world, the St. Joseph Cathedral Men’s Schola under the direction of Ron Schallenkamp, sing Prayer of the Children, with a multi-cultural children's choir from the Sioux Falls Catholic Schools. Local actor and author, Tom Roberts, shares a special Christmas story, called The Red Wagon. As has become tradition, the concert ends with the Cathedral Choir and all performers in the Hallelujiah Chorus.
For 13 years, an interfaith audience has been welcomed to, Christmas at the Cathedral, a community-wide celebration filled with music, and song, focusing on the universal story of the birth of the Prince of Peace. A prayerful message and Christmas blessing will be lead by the Bishop of the Diocese of Sioux Falls, The Most Reverend Paul J. Swain.
St Joseph Cathedral is the setting for the concert and it is the seat of the diocese which covers 35,000 square miles, east of the Missouri River. St. Joseph Cathedral, Romanesque and Renaissance in style, was built from 1917-1919, designed by renowned architect, Emanuel Masqueray. It is considered one of the most prominent structures in the state. Referred to as a “Beacon of Hope,” the Cathedral is an imposing limestone building, with two great towers, sits on a natural ridge overlooking the city of Sioux Falls, and can be seen for miles.
Mark Conzemius is the Producer of the Christmas at The Cathedral concert, John P. Blessington is Executive Producer for CBS.
“CBS finds Christmas at The Cathedral to be a wonderful, broadly-based and welcoming broadcast. Everyone is invited into the Cathedral, reaches both Christians and non-Christians,” said Jack Blessington, Executive Producer for CBS in New York. “So many people from such various backgrounds and religions responded positively to the Christmas at The Cathedral broadcast in 2006. We are happy to have it back.”
This is the third time in the past four years that Christmas at The Cathedral has aired on national network television. The NBC television network provided Christmas at The Cathedral to its affiliates in 2007, in addition to a CBS network broadcast in 2006, in which it was carried by 203 affiliates and satellite stations from across the country. The positive response from viewers led to this year’s invitation to air a special broadcast of highlights from the past four years.
“We are honored to be able to celebrate the incredible story of Christmas with the rest of the country from right here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota,” said Mark Conzemius, producer and director of Christmas at The Cathedral. “It is a tribute to the talent of our local artists, to the extraordinary beauty of the Cathedral, the generosity of our local business community that make Christmas at The Cathedral possible. But most of all, I believe it is a because of the powerful message and community-wide celebration of Christ’s birth.”
Christmas at The Cathedral – Beacon of Hope, features the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor emeritus, Henry Charles Smith. World-renown tenor Scott Piper, who lives in Vermillion, performs O Holy Night and Thy Will Be Done, a special song written for St Joseph Cathedral by local composer, Dan Goeller. Soprano Emily Lodine, from Magnolia, MN, joins Piper in a beautiful rendition of Let There be Peace on Earth. Soprano Stacey Stofferahn, who studied at Augustana College, will perform Emmanuel, God With Us with video by local producer, Kirby Schultz, to enrich this moving concert broadcast.
Concert pianist, Paul Sanchez, an O+Gorman High School graduate, teams up with Piper in an inspirational rendition of the Ave Maria. Triplet trumpeters, The Stoneback Sisters, who once lived in Sioux Falls, begin and end the concert with grand fanfare. In a special candlelit section dedicated to children around the world, the St. Joseph Cathedral Men’s Schola under the direction of Ron Schallenkamp, sing Prayer of the Children, with a multi-cultural children's choir from the Sioux Falls Catholic Schools. Local actor and author, Tom Roberts, shares a special Christmas story, called The Red Wagon. As has become tradition, the concert ends with the Cathedral Choir and all performers in the Hallelujiah Chorus.
For 13 years, an interfaith audience has been welcomed to, Christmas at the Cathedral, a community-wide celebration filled with music, and song, focusing on the universal story of the birth of the Prince of Peace. A prayerful message and Christmas blessing will be lead by the Bishop of the Diocese of Sioux Falls, The Most Reverend Paul J. Swain.
St Joseph Cathedral is the setting for the concert and it is the seat of the diocese which covers 35,000 square miles, east of the Missouri River. St. Joseph Cathedral, Romanesque and Renaissance in style, was built from 1917-1919, designed by renowned architect, Emanuel Masqueray. It is considered one of the most prominent structures in the state. Referred to as a “Beacon of Hope,” the Cathedral is an imposing limestone building, with two great towers, sits on a natural ridge overlooking the city of Sioux Falls, and can be seen for miles.
Mark Conzemius is the Producer of the Christmas at The Cathedral concert, John P. Blessington is Executive Producer for CBS.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Polyphonic interviews Maestro Gier
Check out the great online article with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra's music director, Maestro Delta David Gier in Polyphonic. The article is about his approach to designing a Young People's Concert with the New York Philharmonic.
The Youth Orchestra is on YouTube!
The first half of Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110 performed by the South Dakota Symphony Youth Orchestra on October 25th, 2009.
The second half of Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110 performed by the South Dakota Symphony Youth Orchestra on October 25th, 2009.
The second half of Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110 performed by the South Dakota Symphony Youth Orchestra on October 25th, 2009.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Famed Pianist Angelina Gadeliya To Make Educational Visit At Her Alma Mater, Whittier Middle School
Famed pianist and former Sioux Falls resident, Angelina Gadeliya, will make an educational visit to her alma mater, Whittier Middle School in Sioux Falls at 1:45pm on Thursday, October 29th. She will meet with 325 students for an interactive performance. Along with the performance, Gadeliya will also answer questions about what it takes to become a professional musician and how the staff at Whittier influenced her journey when she was a student there herself. A number of current teachers, as well as the head principal, were at Whittier when Angela was a student.
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The South Dakota Symphony presents “Stage Fright! A Scary Music Night” on Halloween, Oct. 31st at 8pm and a matinee on Sunday, Nov. 1st at 2:30pm.
Former South Dakota Symphony Orchestra musician and Sioux Falls native Angelina Gadeliya is the featured guest piano soloist. She will perform Liszt's fiery composition, Totentanz.
All audience members and musicians are encouraged to come in costume for both performances! Students who come in costume to either performance get in for $5 at the door. (“Students” are little ones on up through college.)
Regular ticket prices range from $10 to $45.
Everyone is invited to arrive early for a Concert Insights discussion one hour before each performance.
A ticket stub from either “Stage Fright! A Scary Music Night” performance gets you FREE admission to the Kirby Science Center at the Washington Pavilion on Sunday, Nov. 1st.
Repertoire includes recognizable selections such as music from Harry Potter and Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice (of Mickey Mouse Fantasia fame).
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