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| Vol. 24, No. 9 |
| May 15, 2002 |
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Doctors’ Orchestra Premiere Concert June 1 by DARLA BROWN The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston The Doctors’ Orchestra of Houston will premiere a piece specially written for the group at its last concert of the season June 1. "Celebration Fanfare" was written by Frederick Hanna, the music coordinator at Creighton University in Nebraska. "Celebration Fanfare is a celebration of life, living, and the pursuit of all good things," Hanna said. The orchestra’s principal flautist, Lynn Zechiedrich, is a friend of the composer and sent him a CD of the orchestra’s concert last May. "The CD and his friendship with Lynn inspired this piece, which is a modern/John Williams-type piece," said Libi Lebel, conductor and founder of Doctors Orchestra of Houston. "This is a fun piece for us and will be our opener." The volunteer orchestra, made up of medical professionals from the Texas Medical Center, also will perform Grieg’s "Piano Concerto" with soloist Zoya Shuhatovich at the piano and Dvorak’s "Symphony No. 9 ‘New World.’" Soloist Shuhatovich received her doctor of musical arts degree in piano performance in 1982 from the Gorky State Conservatory in Russia. She immigrated to the United States in 1993 and the following year was appointed to the faculty of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. "We are very lucky that a professional soloist such as Zoya has agreed to play with us. She has inspired us to listen and work better as a group," Lebel said. The final concert of the season will take place at 7 p.m. at Stude Concert Hall at Rice University. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children and students with ID and may be purchased with check or cash only. Tickets are available at H&H Music Company, 5510 Weslayan in the Weslayan Plaza Shopping Center, (713) 666-2090; or AllRecords, 1955 W. Gray, at the River Oaks Shopping Center, (713) 524-4900. Tickets also will be sold at the door. For more information, call (713) 842-1520 or check out http://www.doctorsorchestrahouston.org.
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