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[Audio] Maestro Ponti Previews PSO's First Concert of 2016-2017 Season

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The Paducah Symphony Orchestra kicks off its 2016-2017 season this Saturday. George Eldred and Maestro Raffaele Ponti preview the first concert on Sounds Good.

 

Saturday’s performance begins with Johan Wagennar’sCyrano de Bergerac Overture. Ponti says he discovered the piece while researching Carl Nielsen, a contemporary of Wagennar. Produced in 1905, Ponti says he finds the overture pushes the ear rhythmically and harmonically.

The symphony orchestra will next move to a tone poem by Richard Strauss titled Death and Transfiguration, which Ponti describes as transforming. “This is like a real life experience that [Strauss] puts pen to paper of what it would be like to die. And what an amazing thing,” Ponti said.

 

Pianist Thomas Pandolfi joins the performance for Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto. Pandolfi also performs a recital on Sunday.

George Eldred has lived most of his life in Princeton, Kentucky except for a 15 year stint of studying music in Sewanee, Tennessee and Lawrence, Kansas and working in camera and photo finishing shops in the Washington, DC area. George first went on the air around the 4th grade when the local station in Princeton used to get elementary school students to read children's books from the library on the air.
A proud native of Murray, Kentucky, Allison grew up roaming the forests of western Kentucky and visiting national parks across the country. She graduated in 2014 from Murray State University where she studied Environmental Sustainability, Television Production, and Spanish. She loves meeting new people, questioning everything, and dancing through the sun and the rain. She hopes to make a positive impact in this world several endeavors at a time.
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