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Ipswich Orchestral Society
Sunday 4 March 2012 ~ Family Concert (afternoon)
Theme: Olympics! Follow the Flame.

Join us on a journey of discovery as we perform music from all over the world. Take part in our Olympiad Marathon as we pass our very own Olympic Torch through the Audience from the balcony to our Conductor while we perform music from North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa and Asia.

Featuring music by Bernstein, Villa Lobos, Brahms, Dvorak, Chabrier, William Walton, Malcolm Arnold, de Falla and Rossini,
and with Special Guests:

St Pancras School's award-winning choir
Ipswich Community Chinese Drum Ensemble
Mr Tom Rumbold and his Miraculous Marimba

SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2012 AT 4:00PM
Melodiya Chamber Ensemble

Sergey Rakitchenkov, viola; Arkady Serper, piano
Works by Georges Enesco, Paul Hindemith, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Franz Liszt.

Sergey Rakitchenkov and Arkady Serper are both graduates of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory who began their distinguished careers in the major concert halls of Europe and Russia before immigrating to the United States. Rakitchenkov is a long-standing member of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Serper a prominent pianist, composer, and faculty member at the Crowden School. Their performances are well known for a colorful, literate style, as well as an exacting technical precision. Featuring expressive collaboration between the musicians and compelling variations in instrument combinations, including several transcription premieres. The members of Melodiya also display an eclectic sensibility in their presentations, performing works from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, all with equal aplomb. For this program they present works by Enesco, Hindemith, Villa-Lobos, Schumann, Brahms, and Liszt.