Saturday, April 28, 2012—7:30 PM
Riverview Theatre
Kermit Poling, violin | Bio
SSO Percussion Trio - Chandler Teague, Anthony Robinson and Douglas Parmelee

BERNSTEIN - Candide Overture
BARBER - Violin Concerto, Op. 14
HANSON - Symphony No. 2 in D-flat Major (“Romantic”)
PECK - The Glory and the Grandeur

For 27 years, concertmaster Kermit Poling has been a mainstay of the Shreveport Symphony. We'll toast him and celebrate the final concert of his tenure as he thrills us with the glorious Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber. The season closes with The Glory and the Grandeur, Russell Peck's unique, energetic concerto for percussion trio and orchestra. With a stage full of toms, snare drums, opera gongs, xylophones and marimbas, it's a piece that's as fun to watch as it is to hear!

Join us for a FREE ‘Inside the Music’ pre-concert conversation at 6:30 PM in the Riverview Theatre

FREE SHUTTLE SERVICE - starts at 6:30 PM
Shuttle picks up at Regions Bank parking garage at the corner of Milam & Market Streets.

Kermit Poling, violin

Kermit Poling is the Associate Conductor of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of both the South Arkansas Symphony and the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet. He has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad, including concerts in Mexico, England, Ireland, France, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. His many guest conducting appearances have included the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México, the Riverside (NJ) Symphonia, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and Moscow Ballet, Filharmonia Veneta, Ballet South, Opera Lewanee!, the Adrian Symphony, the Mayormente Mozart Festival of Puerto Rico, and the Inter-American Festival of Contemporary Music.

Watch a performance of Peck's The Glory and the Grandeur: