FOOSA String Orchestra

2380 East Keats Avenue,Fresno CA 93740

26 June, 2021

Description

Have you missed hearing beautiful orchestra music in Fresno? We've missed playing it for you! This is the concert you've been waiting for! FOOSA, the Fresno Summer Academy Orchestra, is BACK after a year's hiatus. Thomas Loewenheim leads a stellar string orchestra in a lush, Romantic program full of passionate works from the early 20th century. The Piano Sextet by Sergei Lyapunov is like listening to a large symphonic work by Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninoff, even though the orchestral forces are capacity-limited to 20 string players and piano. Dr. Loewenheim describes the third movement of this work "to-die-for beautiful." FOOSA String Orchestra Thomas Loewenheim, conductor Hatem Nadim, piano Sergei Lyapunov, Piano Sextet in B-Flat Minor, Op. 63 (1916, rev. 1921) Ernest Bloch, Concerto Grosso No. 1 for string orchestra with piano obbligato (1925) Manuel De Falla , 'El Amor Brujo': Pantomima & Danza ritual del fuego (1926) Note: Seating capacity is limited, and masks are required for performers and the audience.