Concert Sunday 17th Night 7:30 Meyerson


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Posted by Charlie Krause on March 16, 2002 at 01:17:05:

If you are in the DFW area and want to come to a fun concert of Broadway Music and N.Y. Soloists with Symphonic Band and a Chorus of 120, then come to the Meyerson. This music is orchestrated by Randol Bass and a couple by others and it is very good.

The Best of Broadway
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center
Dallas, TX
Sunday, March 17, 2002
7:30 pm

The Metropolitan Winds, with the Frisco Chorale and the Metropolitan Chorale, present The Best of Broadway, featuring New York guest artists Midge Woolsey and Eric Comstock.

On Sunday, March 17, at 7:30 PM, the Metropolitan Winds, directed by Randol Bass will present a concert of the Best of Broadway in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas. With Broadway the subject, the Winds will be joined by the combined forces of the Frisco Chorale and the Metropolitan Chorale, supplementing 70+ wind players and percussionists with a Broadway chorus a hundred and twenty voices strong. The Best of Broadway extravaganza will be hosted by New York City Radio and Television personality Midge Woolsey and will feature a guest appearance by New York Cabaret artist Eric Comstock.

The program will be an all Broadway repertory, with numbers from Chorus Line, On the Town, Candide, The Sound of Music, and many others. Highlights of the evening will be the witty and sophisticated transcriptions by Maestro Bass, utilizing the richness and power of a full chorus, with a hint of the New York Cabaret added for spice.

The Metropolitan Winds is an all volunteer, professional caliber wind ensemble dedicated to bringing the best of the wind band experience to metroplex residents in the Meyerson Symphony Center, one of the best performing venues in the country. In addition to Broadway show tunes, the Winds has a broad repertory, ranging from traditional wind band music to jazz, orchestral transcriptions, and film scores. The winds has performed with artists ranging from jazz trumpet great Arturo Sandoval and film composer Bruce Broughton, through film critic and columnist Joe-Bob Briggs.

The core of the Metropolitan Chorale is the Frisco Chorale, founded by director Don Hermonat in 1995. From humble beginnings in 1995 when twelve choir members performed for the first time at a local church meeting, the Chorale has grown to over sixty members and has become a cultural fixture in the northern metroplex suburbs. Augmented to the Metropolitan Chorale, the group is doubled in size to provide the vocal match to the Metropolitan Winds, a complete ensemble worthy of the hit tunes of The Great White Way.

Midge Woolsey is a well know New York media personality, hosting programs on classical music station WQXR and New York's PBS affiliate station WNET. She has participated, both on and off screen in many PBS specials, including The Three Tenors in Paris, PBS Millennium 2000, Great Performances, the American Experience, and The Language of Life. Midge has worked as director, performer, singer, and choreographer in over 100 music theater and opera productions - a perfect background for helping the Winds share Broadway with Dallas.

Eric Comstock has been called "The heir apparent to the cabaret throne" by Stephen Holden of the NY Times. With his first CD, called Young Man of Manhattan, this witty young man might embody the spirit of Manhattan as we'd like to remember it -- Manhattan of a golden era, when young men in dinner clothes strolled home, jacket over the shoulder, after a night of dancing tangos and fox-trots until dawn -- a great partner for Midge and the Winds!

The Metropolitan Winds' own Randy Bass has participated in almost every phase of the musical life of Dallas, from the composition of original works for the DSO to performance in the Orpheus Chamber Singers. His choral and holiday works have achieved wide acclaim, and his dazzling and witty writing for wind ensemble has been a prime ingredient in the creation of the majestic and crowd pleasing sound of the Winds



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