Burlington woman set to perform with LGSO

By Tom Ganser

Correspondent

Michelle Niles of Burlington will be joining with 70 members of the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra in the first concert of “Horizons,” the 2013-14 season, on Nov. 16, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. at Calvary Community Church in Williams Bay at the intersection of Highway 50 and Harris Road.

For purposes of using a GPS, the street address is N2620 Harris Road, Lake Geneva.

The concert will include the overture to “Die Meistersinger” by Richard Wagner, Maurice Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite,” and “Pines of Rome” by Ottorino Respighi.

Also featured will be violinist Anna Stenzel in the first movement of Joseph Haydn’s Violin Concerto in G Major.  Stenzel, a ninth grade student from Holiday Hills, IL, is the LGSO’s 2013 Young Artist Competition winner.  LGSO Music Director David Anderson described Stenzel as “a budding violin virtuoso.”

The Wagner and Ravel works on the November program offer similarities and contrasts, according to Anderson.

“Both of these works are dominated by melody, but they emphasize it in incredibly different ways,” Anderson said. “Wagner is massive and complex, with many layers of music working together, while Ravel uses the orchestra like a painter using a color palette. He sets the melodic lines using unique instrument combinations.”

In “Pines of Rome,” Anderson said, “listeners are taken on an emotional thrill-ride, from the exciting opening to the ethereal second movement, to exquisite moments of beauty in the third, and an enormous climax in the fourth.”

The Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra is dedicated to involving people of diverse ages, talents and backgrounds in performing and enjoying great music. The orchestra has performed regularly since 2001 in Walworth County, Wisconsin.

Tickets for the Nov. 16 concert are $10 for adults can be purchased on line with a credit card or Paypal account at www.lakegenevaorchestra.com.  Tickets purchased on line will be held at the door.  Students 18 and under are free.  Tickets can also be purchased at the door beginning at 6:45 p.m.