Parkway Concert Orchestra presents Eastern Lands on March 4 in West Roxbury

“Eastern Lands”

Read our guest artist’s bio here.

Parkway Concert Orchestra continues its 2011-12 season of Travel and Adventure with a concert on Sunday, March 4 at 3 p.m. at the Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury.

Matthew Fritz conducts the 50 piece non-profit orchestra in a program inspired by the Far East, including 'The Young Prince and the Princess' from Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin's 'On the Steppes of Central Asia,' selections from The King and I, and a medley from Walt Disney’s Aladdin. The concert will feature tenor Ray Bauwens singing selections from Madama Butterfly and The Mikado. The Holy Name Youth Choir, directed by Thomas Manguem, will perform Dona Nobis Pacem.

This concert is sponsored by Mt. Washington Bank and Vogt Realty Group (in memory of Gene Vogt, former trumpet player in the orchestra). Concert admission is free. For more information please call 617-325-9338.

The Program:

On the Steppes of Central Asia GeorgeAlexander Borodin, arr. Leidig
Meditation from Thaïs Jules Massenet
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan Charles Griffes
Brian Bell, Assistant Conductor
Scheherazade, Op. 35 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
   III. The Young Prince and the Princess
Variations on a Korean Folk Song John Chance, arr. Charles Schaeffer
---Intermission---
Dona Nobis Pacem Anonymous
Holy Name Youth Choir
Thomas Manguem, Director
Medley from Walt Disney’s Aladdin Allan Menken, arr. John Moss
“Amore e grillo” from Madama Butterfly Giacomo Puccini
“A Wandering Minstrel I” from The Mikado Arthur Sullivan
Ray Bauwens, Tenor
Selections from The King and I Richard Rogers, arr. Robert Russell Bennett

Ray Bauwens

Ray Bauwens portraitRay Bauwens is well known to audiences in the New England area. Some of Mr. Bauwens’ recent performances have included such roles as Cavaradossi in Tosca, Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West, Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera, and Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana.

Mr. Bauwens has performed with the National Symphony of the Ukraine, the Mexico State Symphony Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Academy of Music, Connecticut Concert Opera, Opera Providence, Warren Symphony, Wellesley Symphony Orchestra, Boston Civic Orchestra, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the New Philharmonia Orchestra, and even the Boston Ballet in Lila York’s staging of the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

His operatic roles have also included Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Matteo in Strauss’ Arabella, the title role in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, Canio in I Pagliacci, Don Alvaro in Giuseppe Verdi’s La Forza Del Destino, Pollione in Norma, Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte and Don Jose in Bizet’s Carmen. His concert and oratorio performances include Elijah, Messiah, J.S. Bach’s B-Minor Mass and St. John Passion, the Verdi Requiem and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

Mr. Bauwens has been recorded in his role of Anatol in Samuel Barber’s Vanessa by Naxos Records which was recorded in Kiev. For more information, please visit www.raybauwens.com.


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