{"id":43356,"date":"2019-01-28T10:28:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43356"},"modified":"2019-01-28T10:29:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:29:03","slug":"hays-symphony-orchestra-valentines-concert-upcoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43356","title":{"rendered":"Hays Symphony Orchestra Valentine\u2019s concert upcoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By RUTH FIRESTONE\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAttention all music lovers. Please mark your calendar for the Hays Symphony Orchestra\u2019s free Valentine\u2019s Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9, in Fort Hays State University\u2019s Beach\/Schmidt Performing Arts Center, featuring an evening of ravishingly romantic music.<\/p>\n<p>The orchestra will perform three exciting suites, all of which are fantasies of a sort.<\/p>\n<p>Modest Mussorgsky\u2019s \u201cPictures at an Exhibition,\u201d originated as a series of piano pieces memorializing the paintings of his recently deceased friend Victor Hartmann. The suite remained nearly as unknown as Hartmann\u2019s art until it was orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. Led by conductor Shah Sadikov, the orchestra will play the Ravel adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarmen Fantasy,\u201d an arrangement of Bizet\u2019s opera by Pablo de Sarasate, will follow. Sarasate was a world famous 19-century violinist and composed the fantasy as a virtuoso piece for himself \u2013 today, it is his best-known work. Internationally famous violin soloist Veronique Mathieu will join Sadikov and the orchestra for the stirring fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPelleas et Melisande\u201d began as a drama by the French author Maurice Maeterlinck. The suite, composed by Gabriel Faure, was commissioned as incidental music for the British version of the play. Guest conductor Mark Bartley of West Texas A&amp;M University, also an associate conductor of the Amarillo Symphony, will lead the orchestra in the suite.<\/p>\n<p>The post-concert reception will give the audience and performers an opportunity to meet and greet while enjoying refreshments sponsored by Insurance Planning.<\/p>\n<p>Free tickets are available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hayssymphony.org\">www.hayssymphony.org<\/a>, at the Hays Convention and Visitors Bureau, or at the Downtown Hays Development Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RUTH FIRESTONE\u00a0 Attention all music lovers. Please mark your calendar for the Hays Symphony Orchestra\u2019s free Valentine\u2019s Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43357,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43356\/revisions\/43357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}