"A Salute To
The Ladies"
Community Unity is regarded as a motto that is
essential to growth and development by many organizations in the Space Coast,
and two of the performing arts ensembles in the area have lived this expression
for ten years. When the Florida Space Coast
Philharmonic (now the Space Coast Pops) was just five years old, it
took under its wings the fledgling Melbourne Community Orchestra so
it would have connections to all the bureaucratic complexities the
field of music and musicians must cope with. Ten years have
past and the professional Pops and the volunteer MCO are now
playing to full houses in their individual styles. However, there is a coincidence when we
see the program themes of the two groups for the coming week.
Without any collaboration whatsoever, the Pops is presenting a salute
to the music of Glenn Miller in Glenn Miller and Friends concert
while the MCO presents A Salute to the Ladies as it's
next concert theme.
Maestro Witold Dobrzynski will lead the orchestra
in its tribute to the Ladies with the full orchestra presentation of Hello
Dolly, Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies, Bizet's Carmen,
and Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story with Maria. Other
selections include The Rosemunde Overture by Franz Schubert and the Finale
of the three movement Symencius Symphony
by orchestra member Alan Moss. Space
Coast Release 3/22/02 ~ Robert Bauer
