may concert: listener favorites
Saturday, May 12, 2007 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, 4th & L Streets, Livermore
Sally Dalke
- Vivaldi: "Summer" from The Four Seasons
- Sally Dalke, violin
- Schubert: Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished"
- J. Strauss II: Emperor Waltz
- Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
We asked, and you told us. We asked you, the audience, to tell us your symphonic favorites, and here are four from the top of your list. The Symphony's own concertmaster Sally Dalke shines again in Vivaldi's ode to the season of blazing heat and thunderstorms. Schubert's mysteriously "unfinished" symphony has tantalized music historians ever since its discovery 37 years after his death. "Waltz King" Johann Strauss the younger employs a martial snare drum to give one of his most popular waltzes an "imperial" sound. Artwork on the museum wall comes to life in Ravel's brilliant orchestration of Mussorgsky's piano suite.
Sally Dalke earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Performance at San Jose State University and began her professional career playing with the orchestras of Opera San Jose and American Musical Theatre. Ms. Dalke has toured the United States with the San Francisco Opera/ Western Opera Theater and played in Nebraska with the Omaha and Lincoln Symphonies. She currently serves as concertmaster of the Livermore-Amador Symphony, plays in several other Bay Area orchestras, and maintains a private teaching studio.