Contacts:
Nicole Gallego
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
203-931-2991
ngallego@newhavensymphony.org

New Haven, CT, March 5, 2009: Join the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Music Director William Boughton for American Perspectives, Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:30pm, Woolsey Hall, New Haven. Honoring some America’s greatest composers of the 20th century, the program includes;  Aaron Copland’s Rodeo, Charles Ives’ Variations on America, George Gershwin’s An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue featuring NHSO Pianist, William Braun, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville Summer of 1915 featuring soprano Samantha Lane Talmadge, and Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.

In a special tribute to our great nation, the NHSO invites all active members of the Armed Forces, police officers, firefighters and their families to attend the concert FREE of charge as a thank you for their dedication and service to our great nation. These tickets can be reserved (limit 4 per family, additional tickets at $10 a piece) by calling Nicole Gallego at 203-931-2991 or email ngallego@newhavensymphony.org by March 20. On concert night, pick up your tickets in the rotunda of Woolsey Hall, service members must be in uniform to redeem free admission.

Samantha Lane Talmadge is currently attending Yale University where she is pursuing a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance. She has recently appeared with Yale Opera as Pamina in The Magic Flute, and in excerpts from The Bartered Bride as Marenka, and Idomeneo as Ilia. She sang the role of Rosalinde in Yale Opera’s production of Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus and the role of Tatiana in excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.  In the summer of 2008, Ms. Talmadge was in Milan, Italy, where she sang with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi in Mascagni’s operetta Sì and Franz Lehàr’s  Frühling.  In August, she played the role of Micäela in Peter Brook’s Tragedy of Carmen at the Alba Music Festival, also in Italy. This coming July she will return to Milan to perform again with Orchestra Verdi in The Magic Flute, and La Bohème.

William Braun has appeared as concerto soloist with the New World Symphony (Miami), Florida West Coast Symphony (Sarasota), and Waterbury Symphony on multiple occasions. He made his New York debut with singers Dawn Upshaw and Richard Lalli in two concerts given  in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art’s “Vienna: 1900” exhibition, and more recently appeared at Carnegie’s Weill Hall in the premiere of Francine Trester’s song cycle Bus 66.   He has recorded soundtracks for the PBS-TV series American Masters and, for Koch Classics, the Charles Griffes ballet, The Kairn of Koridwen.
Mr. Braun has written articles for the program book of the Salzburg Festival and for amazon.com.

Single tickets ($10-65) can be purchased through the NHSO Box Office at the Shubert Theater, 247 College Street in New Haven, (203) 562-5666 or by visiting newhavensymphony.org.

This concert is sponsored in part by: University of New Haven, Chamber Insurance Trust, New Haven Terminal, and Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC

All programs subject to change without notice