FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
FROM:	THE PALO ALTO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
                 P.O. BOX 50490, Palo Alto, CA 94303
                 Contact: Nat Collins  (408) 247-0114; president@paphil.org

SUBJECT:Symphony Concert features  Concerto for Horn and Orchestra,
                 Bernhard Scully, Horn Soloist
                 Thomas Shoebotham, Music Director
                 Lee Actor, Assistant Conductor
 
Concert Snapshot:

DATE:    Saturday, April 9, 8:00 pm AND Sunday, April 10, 3:00 pm
              Preconcert Talks at 7:30 and 2:30  by Music Director Shoebotham,
              PLACES: April 9th at CUBBERLEY THEATRE, 4000 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto, and
              April 10th at MENLO-ATHERTON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 555 Middlefield Rd., Atherton      
              Actor: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra; Bernhard Scully, soloist
              Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1
              Elgar: Serenade for Strings
              Mussorgsky (Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition
 
 
The Palo Alto Philharmonic presents an orchestral concert featuring a
prize-winning contemporary concerto as well as three beloved favorites from
the symphonic repertory.

The Philharmonic is proud to present French horn soloist Bernhard Scully in
a performance of the Concerto for Horn and Orchestra by
Composer-in-Residence Lee Actor.  Mr. Scully is Principal Horn of the Saint
Paul Chamber Orchestra, and was previously one of the five members of the
world-famous Canadian Brass. He has been a soloist with many renowned
orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra,
and the Toronto Symphony.  Mr. Actor's Concerto for Horn was awarded First
Prize at the 2007 International Horn Society Competition; this will be its
second performance in the San Francisco Bay Area.
 
The concert opens with  L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1 by Georges Bizet, a work
that is as fresh today as when it was first performed in the 1870's. The
Philharmonic string section is featured in the romantic Serenade for Strings
by Edward Elgar. And as a finale, the entire orchestra plays Modest
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, an exuberant work originally
composed as a suite for solo piano and later orchestrated by Maurice Ravel.
 
TICKETS:  Tickets are $18 General Admission; $15 Seniors; and $8 Students,
and are available at www.paphil.org.

Subject to availability, tickets may also be purchased at the Cubberley box
office for the Saturday evening performance, and at the Center for the
Performing Arts box office for the Sunday afternoon performance.
 
Information on the Philharmonic's  entire season of orchestral and chamber
music concerts is also available on the website or from the Palo Alto
Philharmonic Association, P.O. Box 50490, Palo Alto, Ca 94303.
 
Wheelchair accessible.