Tonight at the Woodlands Auditorium

The Hot Springs/Hot Springs Symphony Guild will be bringing back the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra for an unprecedented second appearance in their concert year to help celebrate their twenty-fifth year of existence. The concert, scheduled for today, April 20 at the Woodlands Auditorium will be a “Mostly American” concert highlighting such composers as Copeland, Gershwin, and John Williams. Antonin Dvorak, who lived for a few years in the U.S., will also be featured with his popular Slovonic Dances composition. The Williams’ piece will be The Cowboys Overture, a fun-filled and rousing score from the motion picture The Cowboys which reflects a Copland-influenced Western American landscape.

A 25th Anniversary Special Event

Pianist Tatiana Roitman Mann has appeared as a soloist and recitalist across North America and Europe. The BBC hailed her performance of G. Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Oxford Pops Orchestra as "formidable...both accurate and with rarely seen joy." Mann's radio broadcasts include H. Villa-Lobos' Mystic Sextet, on NPR's Performance Today, and B. Bartok's Contrasts heard on New York 's classical music station, WQXR. As a performer of contemporary works, she premiered ‘Speak No Evil’ by E. McKinley at the American Composer's Forum, and performed “For Don” by M. Babbitt, with the composer in attendance, in celebration of his 90th birthday at Tanglewood's Contemporary Music Festival. As the recipient of the Peggy Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship at Tanglewood, she worked with James Levine, Dawn Upshaw, Yo-Yo Ma, Charles Rosen and Claude Frank

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Tickets: At The Woodlands- Ouachita room today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.