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The Breckenridge Music Festival presents “Festival Finale Showcase,” the final concert of the 2011 summer season. The performance will feature Tim McFadden and Steve Haefner on Bizet's “Carmen Fantasy for Two Trumpets,” as well as oboist Sandra Stimson on Street's “Adagio for Oboe and Strings.”
The evening's program will open with Bernstein's renowned “Overture to Candide” and will close with Liszt's “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F minor.”
Performing in Street's Adagio for Oboe and Strings is Sandra Stimson. Sandra is Principal oboe of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra. Previous orchestral engagements include Principal oboe of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal oboe of the Billings Symphony and Acting Associate Principal oboe of the Omaha Symphony. Originally from New York, she earned her Bachelors degree from Ithaca College and a Masters degree from Yale University. Sandra's principal teachers include Richard Killmer, Ronald Roseman and Mark Hill. She resides in Indiana with her husband Ken Decker, a woodwind repairman and oboe maker.
The Festival Finale Showcase closes its 2011 season with Liszt's memorable “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1” (originally written as the “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 for piano.”) Although Hungarian by birth, it was only later in his career that Franz Liszt came to be regarded as a Hungarian national hero. The Hungarian Rhapsodies were originally a set of 19 piano pieces based on traditional Hungarian folk themes in which Liszt incorporated a number of effects unique to the sound of Gypsy bands. The Hungarian Rhapsody piano pieces in Hungarian gypsy style won wide popularity, and six of these were later orchestrated with the help of flautist and conductor Franz Doppler, to whom Liszt himself gave full credit for the work.
The evening's program will open with Bernstein's renowned “Overture to Candide” and will close with Liszt's “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F minor.”
Performing in Street's Adagio for Oboe and Strings is Sandra Stimson. Sandra is Principal oboe of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra. Previous orchestral engagements include Principal oboe of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal oboe of the Billings Symphony and Acting Associate Principal oboe of the Omaha Symphony. Originally from New York, she earned her Bachelors degree from Ithaca College and a Masters degree from Yale University. Sandra's principal teachers include Richard Killmer, Ronald Roseman and Mark Hill. She resides in Indiana with her husband Ken Decker, a woodwind repairman and oboe maker.
The Festival Finale Showcase closes its 2011 season with Liszt's memorable “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1” (originally written as the “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 for piano.”) Although Hungarian by birth, it was only later in his career that Franz Liszt came to be regarded as a Hungarian national hero. The Hungarian Rhapsodies were originally a set of 19 piano pieces based on traditional Hungarian folk themes in which Liszt incorporated a number of effects unique to the sound of Gypsy bands. The Hungarian Rhapsody piano pieces in Hungarian gypsy style won wide popularity, and six of these were later orchestrated with the help of flautist and conductor Franz Doppler, to whom Liszt himself gave full credit for the work.
