Parkway Concert Orchestra presents 'Water and the Sea' on November 6 in Norwood
“Water and the Sea”
Read our guest artist’s bio here.
Parkway Concert Orchestra begins its 2011-12 season of Travel and Adventure with a concert on Sunday, November 6 at 3 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 100 Winter Street, Norwood. Matthew Fritz conducts the 50 piece non-profit orchestra in a program inspired by the sea and other water bodies, including "Moldau" from My Fatherland by Smetana, Handel's "Water Music Suite," "Russian Sailors' Dance" by Gliere, and South Pacific Symphonic Scenario. The concert will feature baritone Richard Conrad singing selections from The Pirates of Penzance, H. M. S. Pinafore and The Mikado.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Norwood Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Donation is $15; $10 for seniors and students; and free for children under 12 years old. For ticket reservations please call 781-762-0288.
The Program:
| Suite from Watermusic |
George Frideric Handel, arr. Hamilton Harty |
| La Cathédrale engloutie |
Claude Debussy, arr. Hubert Mouton |
| The Moldau (Vltava) from My Fatherland |
Bedřich Smetana |
| ---Intermission--- |
| South Pacific, Symphonic Scenario |
Richard Rogers, arr. Robert Russell Bennett |
“I am the very Model of a Modern Major General”
from The Pirates of Penzance
“When I Was a Lad” from H. M. S. Pinafore
“As Some Day It May Happen” from The Mikado |
Arthur Sullivan |
| Richard Conrad, Baritone |
| Russian Sailors’ Dance from The Red Poppy |
Reinhold Gliére, arr. Merle Isaac |
Richard Conrad, Baritone
Richard Conrad studied singing with Harry Euler Treiber in Boston, and in Germany with Gisela Rohmert. While still a student, his ability to meet the technical and stylistic demands of music of the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries resulted in an invitation from Decca (London) to record arias and ensembles of this period with Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, and Richard Bonynge (The Age of Bel Canto and Arias from Handel's Julius Caesar) which brought him into international prominence. His performances of the bel canto literature include A Primer on Prima Donnas (again with Miss Sutherland and Mr. Bonynge; now available on Video VA1 69401) for CBC-TV, a series, Coloratura, for the National Educational Network in Boston, and a cycle of programs on florid song, which he wrote and performed for the Radio-Televisione Italiana in Rome. His European debut took place in Geneva when he was soloist with L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Since then he has performed in concert and opera tours, and in plays, operettas, and musicals all over Europe, Britain, the United States, Canada, Africa, and the former Soviet Union. Mr. Conrad is founder and former Artistic Director of Boston Academy of Music. In 2002 Conrad and artists of Boston Academy of Music founded The Bostonian Opera and Concert Ensemble (aka Richard Conrad’s THE BOSTONIANS).
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