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KSO Season CDs - $15 each
2008-09 Season Spotlight Composer - Rachmaninoff
This Sampler CD contains excerpts from selected works to be performed during the 2008-09 Season. The disk includes excerpts from Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3, Vocalise, Caprice Bohemien, and the Cello Sonata in G Minor.
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KSO Musician CDs — $15 each
Barry Ross and Rich Ridenour 2007 release – Musical Friends
Barry Ross and Rich Ridenour 2007 release – Musical Friends
KSO Assistant Conductor and former Concertmaster Barry Ross joins pianist Rich Ridenour on a CD featuring music of Mozart, Brahms, Fritz Kreisler, John Williams, George Gershwin, and more. You’ll enjoy selections ranging from classical sonatas to the “Orange Blossom Special."
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Noah Krzan’s 2004 release Afterwards
KSO Bass Noah Krzan and the Nexus Jazz Ensemble’s second release includes Mister Magic, La Fiesta, Eleanor Rigby, and more. Original works included Katy and Afterwards. NJE personnel includes John Knific, Stephen Perkins and Ryan Andrews. Also on the CD are Chris Beckstrom, Benje Daneman, Rohan Krishnamurthy and Ben Janik.
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Armenoui Kruziki’s 2005 release Kruziki Transatlantica Quintet
KSO Violinist Armenoui Kruziki is a member of the Kruziki Transatlantica Quintet whose debut, self-titled CD offers a mixture of classical, tango, Middle Eastern, and jazz music. The group were co-winners in two categories of the 2005 DownBeat magazine Student Music Award Competition: best Jazz Instrumental Group and best Classical Chamber Group.
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Christine M. Smith’s 1998 release American Journeys
KSO Principal Flute and WMU faculty Christine M. Smith is featured in Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Ott?s Concerto for Alto Flute. She is accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra. CD also contains works by Liszt and Busoni.
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Elizabeth Start’s 2004 release From the Start
Composer and KSO Cellist, Elizabeth Start performs eight original compositions: Air Swiftly Flies, More Sign Songs, Four Briefs, Bits-O-Bugs, Verdisimilitude, and others. Additional performers include Helen Lukan, Capriccio, and Pinotage. More info at www.elizabethstart.com.
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Brad Smith's 1995 release The Gift - A Christmas Celebration
KSO Oboe and English Horn, Brad Smith performs eleven holiday carols with orchestra, Daniel Hege, conductor. Included on the CD are Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Deck the Halls, What Child is This, Silent Night, and more.
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Jean Watson’s 2004 release Christmas Presence
KSO Violinist Jean Watson plays violin, keyboard and sings in this collection of traditional and not-so-traditional Christmas songs. Additional musicians include Kevin Brown and Linda Havens. More info at www.jeanwatson.com.
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Guest Artist CDs — $15 each
Rich Ridenour’s 1996 release Piano Pops with the Grand Rapids Symphony, John Varineau, Conductor
Rich and GSO perform Gershwin?s Rhapsody in Blue and Prelude No. 2, Guaraldi?s Linus & Lucy, Billy Joel?s Root Beer Rag, as well as Golliwog?s Cakewalk, Malaguena, and much more.
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Rich Ridenour’s 1999 release Piano Pops 2 with the Grand Rapids Symphony, John Varineau, Conductor
This edition of Piano Pops includes Ellington?s New World A-Comin?, Edgar Winter?s Frankenstein, Gershwin?s Second Rhapsody, as well as music of Scott Joplin, Elton John, Debussy, and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Kathy Wagner’s 1994 release Taking A Chance on Love with The River City Jazz Ensemble
Featured with the KSO in the 2005 Summer Parks Concerts, Kathy Wagner wowed the crowd with her jazz stylings. You?ll enjoy Skylark, Route 66, Sophisticated Lady, When I Fall in Love, and much more. Rich Ridenour also performs on this disk.
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Brandon and Rich Ridenour’s 2005 release Trumpet Invasion
The father/son, piano/trumpet duo offer a smorgasboard of selections - Gershwin Preludes and I Got Rhythm, Ravel?s Habanera, Mozart?s Rondo alla Turka, and more.
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