LV Philharmonic November concerts bring Charlie Chaplin, Abraham Lincoln & Tony Hsieh in Las Vegas, Nevada For Sale

In Reynolds Theater Las Vegas Philharmonic & guest conductor Taras Krysa to perform live music for Charlie Chaplin?s classic film City Lights on Saturday November 3
American composers celebrated Saturday, November 17 in ?An American Portrait? concert conducted by Case Scaglione and featuring singers Linda Lister & Mark Thomson & guest narrator, Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh.
Tickets available from The Smith Center Box Office, Phone (702) 749-xxxx, or visit www.lvphil.org
Las Vegas, NV) The Las Vegas Philharmonic will perform two concerts in November in Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center with programs that bring Charlie Chaplin, Abraham Lincoln and Las Vegas-based Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh into the concert hall.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN?S ?CITY LIGHTS? On Saturday, November 3 at 8:00 p.m. Taras Krysa will make his conducting debut with the Las Vegas Philharmonic leading a performance of the restored score to Charlie Chaplin?s classic film, City Lights.
The orchestra will perform on the Reynolds Hall stage with the film screening behind it.
This will be the first time that the restored orchestrated live music version of the xxxx film will be screened in Reynolds Hall and the concert is the first of the Las Vegas Philharmonic?s Pops Series concerts for the xxxx-13 season.
Released in xxxx, City Lights, subtitled ?A Comedy Romance in Pantomime?, is rated by the American Film Association as one of the top 100 films of all time and is widely considered to be Chaplin?s finest film. In City Lights, Chaplin?s beloved Little Tramp character falls in love and helps a blind Flower Girl (played by Virginia Cherrill) to regain her sight.
Chaplin not only wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the film, but also wrote most of the music to accompany it. The original music for City Lights was restored by Timothy Brock in xxxx and produced for symphonic presentation. This version will be performed by the Las Vegas Philharmonic.
Major orchestras and audiences around the country have embraced the blend of live orchestral music and silent film and guest conductor, Mr. Krysa, who is the music director of the Henderson Symphony and UNLV?s director of orchestras, conducted a performance in Henderson last year. He has also conducted an orchestral performance of the score to Chaplin?s Modern Times and says that Chaplin has a very special and specific musical language: ?It?s quite original and distinct. Chaplin knew how he wanted it to sound and what kind of colors he wanted the music to produce. The melodic lines have quite a unique energy to them. It never ceases to amaze me how there is not one thing on the screen that is not well thought out, not one extra frame, and that goes for the musical score as well.?
?AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT?
On Saturday, November 17 the Las Vegas Philharmonic and guest conductor, assistant conductor with the New York Philharmonic, Case Scaglione, will celebrate the musical spirit of America with a concert called ?An American Portrait?.
The program is book-ended by two works by Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man and Lincoln Portrait. This will be the first performance of the Fanfare for the Common Man in Reynolds Hall and the work has a special meaning for The Smith Center.
A painting based on the piece by artist Tim Bavington hangs prominently in the Reynolds Hall foyer and it is also represented by the bold, multi-colored sculpture outside in Symphony Park.
The concert program continues with performance of Copland?s Old American Songs featuring soprano Linda Lister and tenor Mark Thomsen, followed by Leonard Bernstein?s infectious rhythms in Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Charles Ives?s Variations on America and Samuel Barber?s Adagio for Strings.
?An American Portrait? will conclude with the much-anticipated Las Vegas Philharmonic debut by Zappos.com CEO, Tony Hsieh, who will narrate Copland?s Lincoln Portrait. The Lincoln Portrait is a stirring work that features spoken excerpts from some of Abraham Lincoln?s most well-known and beloved speeches. Mr. Hsieh joins an illustrious and eclectic group of people who have narrated the work since its xxxx premiere, such as Henry Fonda, James Earl Jones, Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Barack Obama, Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Vincent Price, Gore Vidal, Margaret Thatcher and Walter Cronkite among others.
TICKETS
Tickets for both concerts are priced from $46 to $94 and are available from The Smith Center Box Office, Phone (702) 749-xxxx or online at www.lvphil.org
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