Bucks County Symphony Orchestra Presents the 2009-2010 Season

On Sunday February 21, 2010 the bucks County Symphony will perform their annual Winter Concert . The orchestra is under the skillful direction of Maestro Gary Fagin. This event will be held at 3:00 p.m. at Central Bucks West High School, 375 West Court Street, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The concert will feature Gabriel Fauré's Requiem in D minor. The Central Bucks West Choir, under the direction of Dr. Joseph Ohrt, and soloists from the Academy of Vocal Arts will perform. The Requiem is Fauré’s best known work, and its most famous movement is the soprano aria Pie Jesu. Of his work, Fauré commented, “It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience.”

On March 27, 2010, BCS will hold its annual Pops Concert, featuring Chris Brubeck and the Triple Play.  Mr. Brubeck started his career by touring and recording with his father, jazz great Dave Brubeck. Chris Brubeck is a talented musician, singer and composer who works in various genres, including jazz, blues, contemporary, folk, funk, pop, and classical music. John von Rhein, music critic for The Chicago Tribune, calls Mr. Brubeck “a composer with a real flair for lyrical melody--a 21st Century Lenny Bernstein.” Triple Play is an acoustic blues/jazz/folk trio with vocals that includes Mr. Brubeck, guitarist Joel Brown, and harmonica virtuoso Peter Madcat Ruth.

The Bucks County Symphony will perform the Final Concert of the 2009-2010 season on Saturday May 1, 2010 at 8:00 PM at Central Bucks East High School. The featured performer will be Elizabeth Pitcairn Playing a Prokofiev violin concerto.