91猫先生

91猫先生 second grader and beginning cellist, Kai Glenn (pictured), along with several other 91猫先生 orchestra students, attended the East Texas Symphony Orchestra 鈥淒ueling Fiddles鈥� concert聽on Saturday, January 17^th at the UT Tyler Cowan Center. 聽91猫先生 orchestra students got to hear ETSO Concertmaster, Mark Miller solo on violin classics and聽witness the fiddling and dancing talents of Celtic fiddle superstar, Natalie MacMaster while also seeing their very own orchestra director, Jamie Reason,聽play violin with the East Texas Symphony Orchestra.

This was a wonderful string concert for our orchestra students to experience as they could hear, see and appreciate two very different styles of string playing and music.聽They learned that mastery of common string techniques enables a string musician to play both Celtic and classical style!

Dueling Fiddles with Natalie MacMaster

Richard Lee, Conductor photo: (c)Portraits by Bryan   Natalie MacMaster, fiddle Mark Miller, Violin photo: Kenneth Greer What is the difference between a violin and a fiddle?聽 You鈥檒l learn the answer as classical and Celtic meet in this program featuring Celtic music superstar Natalie MacMaster and ETSO concertmaster Mark Miller.聽 Each performer will be featured in solo works with the ETSO and they will team up for a duet with ETSO.   Date January 17, 2015 , 7:30 p.m. Location UT Tyler Cowan Center Program (click on links below to hear music samples)   Mozart: Rondo in C, K. 373 Massanet: M茅ditation from Tha茂s Elgar: Serenade 厂补颈苍迟-厂补毛苍蝉: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Plus selections by Natalie MacMaster and a Dueling Fiddles duet