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CARMINA BURANA
MUSIC DETAILS
The Autumn Winds Youth Ensemble opens this masterworks series concert in partnership with the Florida Wind Band. During their eight-week rehearsal cycle, Autumn Winds students explore a broad range of exciting and challenging works. Their performance will feature music by some of the most influential composers of the wind band repertoire, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Steven Bryant, Kevin Day, Alex Shapiro, Michael Markowski, and Eric Osterling.
The Florida Wind Band begins after the intermission with Ante Grgin’s jazz-influenced Concertino for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble, which features principal clarinet Tony Negron. Following is Carl Orff’s timeless masterpiece Carmina Burana, based on 24 medieval poems, which has become one of the most beloved works in the orchestral repertoire. The music is simple in harmony and range, characteristic of 13th-century music, with a driving rhythm to which the listener instinctively responds. Arranger John Krance worked directly with Carl Orff on this rendition and has incorporated the vocal melodies into a setting entirely instrumental in structure that you will find equally as passionate and exciting as the original orchestral score.
PROGRAM
AUTUMN WINDS
ANTE GRGIN - Concertino for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble
CARL ORFF - Carmina Burana
TICKETS
$13 - Purchased in advance online.
$20 - Purchased on the day of the event.
*All ticket sales are final and non-refundable.
*All tickets are general admission and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
CONCERT TIMELINE
- 3:00 PM - Auditorium lobby and Ticket Table opens.
- 3:30 PM - Concert hall doors open for sponsors, donors, honorary community members, and audience members needing special assistance to enter the hall early to select their seats.
- 3:45 PM - Concert hall doors open for all other ticket holders.
- 4:00 PM - The concert will begin and has a run time of 90 minutes including a brief intermission when resetting the stage between ensembles.
VENUE, DATE & TIME
USF SCHOOL OF MUSIC CONCERT HALL
Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 at 4:00pm
3755 USF Holly Drive
Tampa, FL 33620
SEASON 17 SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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Tony Negron, Clarinet Soloist
A native to Tampa Bay, Tony Negron has enjoyed a richly varied career as a professional clarinetist, chamber musician, concerto soloist, and as an educator. He graduated from the University of South Florida with a Bachelor’s in Music Education and from Duquesne University with a Masters in Clarinet Performance, where he studied with Ron Samuels of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
As a performer, Tony serves as principal clarinet with the Florida Wind Band and second clarinet with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra & Florida Philharmonic Orchestra (previously the Punta Gorda Symphony). He has performed with The Florida Orchestra, Orlando Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra, and Disney Candlelight Orchestra. Tony has won several competitions, including first place in the Robert Shankovich Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition with Scott McAllister's Black Dog. He has been a featured soloist with Alia Musica Pittsburgh, both the Duquesne Symphony Orchestra & Wind Ensemble, the Florida Wind Band, served as a resident artist with the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, and has been a featured artist on Pittsburgh’s Classical Music Radio Station WQED 89.3. Tony has also performed alongside notable musical acts including Celtic Thunder, the Italian pop opera trio Il Volo, Il Divo, and with Sarah Brightman during her Hymn World Tour.
Virginia Johnson, Bay News 9, Guest Speaker
A native of southern Louisiana, Virginia Johnson was born in Lafayette, and she grew up in Devil's Swamp in Thibodaux with her large Cajun family.
Virginia has been working as a journalist in the Tampa Bay area since 2002. She joined the Spectrum Bay News 9 family in 2007. She works on Florida on a Tankful, Chef’s Kitchen and On The Town segments, special events and long-form series.
She’s won two Emmys and a Murrow Award Spectrum Bay News 9 with her co-worker, photographer Bobby Collins. She is deeply humbled for the privilege to meet people and tell their stories.
Virginia studied International History and Political Science at St. Joseph's College in Indiana. She holds a master’s degree in International Business from Loyola University Chicago and another in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University. She worked as a reporter and an anchor in West Lafayette and South Bend, Indiana, before landing in the Sunshine State. She's written a documentary about water restoration in Florida, helped birth a cow at the State Fair and reported from an emergency room during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
She resides in Manatee County with her young family and pets—dogs and birds-- and she cheers for the 2019 National Football Champion Louisiana State University. Geaux Tigers.