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Local SymphonyPresents VariedConcert ProgramBy HOWARD W. CARDOZA The Greenville Symphony Orchestra performed Saturday night for a highly appreciative audience The entirely orchestral program was auite varied, satisfying many diverse perferences in symphonic music, and featuring several truly outstanding instrumentalists. as well as aSymnlirwiourSell o olsIn the early spring of the year the Greenville Symphony Orchestra goes “on tour presenting ten concerts in five school districts of MercerCounty. This year the concerts take place on tomorrow and Wednesday in Reynolds, Jamestown, Mercer, Greenville and Commodore Perry schools.The schedule is very tight with little time between ap pearances. It is as follows: March I-Reynolds two concerts, 8:15 and 9:15 a.m.; Jamestown one concert, 10:40 a.m.; Mercer two concerts,1:30 and 2:15 p.m.March 2 - Greenville — three concerts, 8 30, 9:30, and 10:15a.m.; Commodore Perry two concerts, 1:15 and 2 p.m.Ivan Romanenko, music director and conductor of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, has arranged a program suitable to all grades Brad Mansell, cellist and a senior at Hickory High School, will be featured as soloist in a sonata for cello and strings by VivaldiMrs. Harry Pedicord, Symphony Society president, will narrate the various numbers from a script prepared by Assistant Concertmaster LillianMehr.The program includes Danceof the Comedians from “The Bartered Bride” by Smetana,narrator in Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait.”The degree of competence one can anticipate from the orchestra since conductor Ivan Romanenko’s coming to Greenville 10 years ago seemsalways to be moving forward.Opening with the Concerto Grosso. Op 3, No. 6 by Francesco Geminiani. the evening began with a rarely heard butthoroughly enjoyable work The interplay between soloists Concertmaster Carmen Romanenko, Marie Halliday (violins) and HenriettaVoyvodich (cello) highlighted this number, and though the work as a whole was unfamiliar to many, it was well received Haydn’s more familiar Symphony No. 99 in E. Flat Major followed — a work in which the orchestra played the varied movements with perfect response to the conductor's baton. Nothing is more appreciated by any audience than communication between orchestra and conductor so complete that they perform as one; the musical nuances are inevitably vivid and alive.With two selections of a comparably soothing nature behind, Capriccio Espagnol, Op 3! bv Rimsky-Korsakov, with its brilliant orchestration and impassioned Spanish sound, gave a complete turn-about of mood Calling on virtuosoperformances from individualsas welt as sections, this much beloved masterpiece showed once again how much our localsymphony instrumentalistshave improved over the years. The combination of local amateurs with establishedprofessionals, under thedirection of Mr. Romanenko, performed admirably, and enthusiastic audience response was the result.1310 orchestra opened the second half of the program wtththe “Meditation fromMassenet's opera “Thais' This selection was played in memory of. and in tribute to Marjorie Johnston Avery, violinist and (See Symphony, page 2)
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Greenville Record Argus
Greenville, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Feb 28, 1977
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