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Paul Phillips to serve as guest conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra March 20-22, 2014
Meadows Symphony Orchestra conductor Paul Phillips '74 will step in for Dallas Symphony Orchestra Music Director Jaap van Zweden and serve as guest conductor of the DSO on March 20, 21 and 22.
Under Phillips' baton, the DSO and guest pianist Anna Fedorova will perform the stirring Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2; Shostakovich's Five Fragments; and Aaron Copland's Third Symphony.
Tickets are available online for the March 20, 21 and 22 DSO performances with Paul Phillips as guest conductor. For more information, call 214-692-0203.
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Phillips, the Martha Raley Peak Endowed Centennial Chair in the Meadows School of the Arts' Division of Music, was originally scheduled to conduct the MSO on Wednesday, March 19 in Caruth Auditorium. Instead, he will be at the Meyerson Symphony Center rehearsing with the DSO. Taking Phillips' place on the Meadows conductor platform that night will be Michelle Merrill, a former student of Phillips' who was the only American among the four winners of the 2012 International Conductors Workshop and Competition. She has conducted such orchestras as the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Round Rock Symphony and the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic.
With guest cellist Christopher Adkins (a Meadows faculty member and principal cellist for the DSO), the MSO will present Ernest Bloch's Schelomo, a Hebraic rhapsody exploring the lamentations and trials of King Solomon. The ensemble will also perform Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4, a piece originally composed in 1936 but not performed publicly until 1961 due to threat of repercussion by Stalin, who denounced Shostakovich as a creator of "chaos instead of music." The concert takes place at 8 p.m. in Caruth Auditorium, Owen Arts Center.
Tickets are available online for the Meadows Symphony Orchestra performance and cost $7 for SMU students, faculty and staff. For more information, call the Meadows Ticket Office at 214-768-2787 (214-SMU-ARTS).
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Categories: Calendar Highlights, News, Year of the FacultyTags: alumni news, Anna Fedorova, Christopher Adkins, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, endowed chairs, faculty news, Martha Raley Peak Endowed Centennial Chair, Meadows School of the Arts, Meadows Symphony Orchestra, Michelle Merrill, Paul Phillips