2012-2013 Masterworks Series
Saturday Evenings at 8 p.m. at UNCW Kenan Auditorium
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Rendezvous in Paris
Ravel's Boléro and other
French Orchestral Favorites
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Mike Waddell, clarinet
Sponsored by
First Citizens Private Wealth Management
The next stop on the Wilmington Symphony's "Passport to the World," concert season is on Saturday, October 20th at 8:00 p.m. in Kenan Auditorium when the Orchestra transports the audience to Paris for an evening of French orchestral favorites from two centuries.
The richly varied program begins with Baroque composer Jean-Phillippe Rameau's Les Indes Galantes before traveling forward in time for Emmanuel Chabrier's 1888 Suite Pastorale and Claude Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie for Clarinet from 1910, one of the most beautiful works in the clarinet repertoire. Maurice Ravel's sensational Boléro! concludes this perfect "10" of a concert, that also features Wilmington native Mike Waddell as clarinet soloist.
Boléro is Maurice Ravel's most famous musical composition and was originally composed in 1928 as a ballet commission. The U.S. premiere of "Bolero" the following year with the New York Philharmonic was a great success, bringing "shouts and cheers from the audience" according to a New York Times review, leading one critic to claim that Philharmonic conductor Arturo Toscanini had made Ravel into "almost an American national hero," and another to declare that "it was Toscanini who launched the career of the 'Boléro.'"
Tickets are available by calling the Kenan Auditorium Ticket Office at 962-3500 or 1-800-732-3643 weekdays from 12:00 noon to 6 p.m. Reserved seats are $25, $23, and just $6 for students and youth under 17.
ORDER YOUR TICKETS ONLINE HERE. | PROGRAM NOTES FOR THIS PERFORMANCE HERE.
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About Mike Waddell
Mike Waddell is a Wilmington, North Carolina native with degrees from the University of Michigan (M.M. '79, clarinet) and East Carolina University (B.M.E. '78). His teachers include David Shifrin, Robert Listokin, Fred Ormand, Buddy DeFranco (jazz), and Donald Sinta (saxophone). Since the late 70's, he has performed on clarinet and saxophones in a number of styles, touring in the U.S. and abroad.
Waddell is the recipient of two Jazz Composer Fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council ('94 & '99), as well as two Regional Project Artist Grants from the United Arts Council ('98 & '04). His has released two jazz CD's, "Defining Moments" (2001) and "Not From Concentrate" ('95). Jazz Times reviewer Owen Cordle writes, "Defining Moments defines Mike Waddell as a complete artist, a triple threat as clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer. "Mr. Cordle chose this as one of his top ten jazz picks of 2001 in the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer.
As a clarinetist, saxophonist (and vocalist) with the world famous Dukes of Dixieland in New Orleans in the late '80s, Mr. Waddell performed nightly on Bourbon Street and to sold-out crowds in the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony.
Waddell has also performed to positive reviews on pianist Ed Paolantonio's "Dad's Blues" ('98), guitarist Scott Sawyer's "In The Stream" ('93), and concertized with the Temptations, Four Tops, American Dance Festival, North Carolina Theatre, Fairbanks Symphony, Artic Chamber Orchestra, Larry Coryell, Ken and Harry Watters, as well as the late jazz guitarist, Charlie Byrd. He is also featured on solo clarinet in "Déjà Vu" ('97), an independent film by Henry Jaglom.
