Spend Valentine’s Day with the Symphony! The forth concert this season is titled “Love Songs Through the Movies” and is scheduled for February 14, 2019 at 7PM, on Valentine’s Day.
Conductor Jordan Tang and the symphony players will play unforgettable pieces such as “The Marriage of Figaro,” love theme from Romeo and Juliet, prelude to “Carmen,” “Lara’s Theme” and, “Wedding March” to name a few.
Dr. Jordan Tang has served as Music Director and Conductor of the Jackson Symphony (TN) for 27 seasons, Music Director and Conductor of the Paducah Symphony (KY) for 23 years, Associate Conductor of the Charlotte Symphony and Charlotte Pops Orchestra (NC), Music Director of the Ozark Festival Orchestra (MO), the Missouri State University Symphony, the Youth Symphony of the Carolinas, and the New Music Ensemble in Utah.
As guest conductor, he has appeared in concert with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Nashville, Memphis, Kansas City , Gainesville Chamber, South Arkansas, and Sewanee Summer Music Center orchestras. He has studied conducting privately with Joseph Rosenstock, and also with Otto Werner Mueller, Sergiu Comissiona and Harold Farberman.
As a composer of more than 90 original works and hundreds of arrangements and orchestrations, Jordan has written four symphonies, three string quartets, concerto works for timpani, percussion, violin and cello, large orchestral works, instrumental and ensemble works, a Passion, a ballet, as well as keyboard, vocal and choral works.
His compositions have been performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Utah, Charlotte, Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Kansas City , Springfield, Jackson, Paducah, Victoria and Elmira Symphonies, the Rochester Philharmonic, Indianapolis and Gainesville Chamber Orchestras. His works have also been performed in England, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Australia and Hong Kong. Commercially recorded on “Marco Polo” (part of “Naxos”) and “Opus One” labels as well as published, he has received thirty-six ASCAP Awards.
As a composer, he has studied with Vladimir Ussachevsky, Ramiro Cortes, Marcel Dick, Heinz Werner Zimmermann, Jan Bender and Kalervo Tuukkanen. He has been invited to the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, two world-renowned artist colonies. He was named Tennessee Composer of the Year, and has also been named to the honorary titles of Kentucky Colonel and Duke of Paducah.
Dr. Jordan resides in Jackson, TN, with his wife of thirty-five years. They have two grown children, Philip and Paige.
Concert
Jordan Tang, Conductor
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Salut d’amour (Love’s greeting) – Edward Elgar
A time for us (Love Theme) from Romeo and Juliet – Nino Rota arr. by Robert Longfield
On the street where you live from My Fair Lady – Frederick Loewe
Core ‘ngrato (Ungrateful heart) – Salvatore Cardillo orch. by Jordan Tang
Ritual Fire Dance from El amor brujo (Love, the magician) – Manuel deFalla
I n t e r m i s s i o n
Prelude to Carmen – Georges Bizet
Moonlight Sonata, first movement – Ludwig van Beethoven arr. and orch. by Jordan Tang
The lover from Rakastava (The Lover) – Jean Sibelius
Lara’s Theme from Doctor Zhivago – Maurice Jarre arr. by Merle Issac
Il mio tesoro intanto from Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
God so loved the world – John Stainer Transcribed by Jordan Tang
Wedding March from A Midsummernight’s Dream – Felix Mendelssohn
Soloist Collin Peterson.