Brook Hill second grader and beginning cellist, Kai Glenn (pictured), along with several other Brook Hill orchestra students, attended the East Texas Symphony Orchestra “Dueling Fiddles” concert on Saturday, January 17^th at the UT Tyler Cowan Center.  Brook Hill orchestra students got to hear ETSO Concertmaster, Mark Miller solo on violin classics and witness the fiddling and dancing talents of Celtic fiddle superstar, Natalie MacMaster while also seeing their very own orchestra director, Jamie Reason, play violin with the East Texas Symphony Orchestra.

This was a wonderful string concert for our orchestra students to experience as they could hear, see and appreciate two very different styles of string playing and music. They learned that mastery of common string techniques enables a string musician to play both Celtic and classical style!

Dueling Fiddles with Natalie MacMaster

Richard Lee, Conductor photo: (c)Portraits by Bryan   Natalie MacMaster, fiddle Visit Natalie’s Website Mark Miller, Violin photo: Kenneth Greer What is the difference between a violin and a fiddle?  You’ll learn the answer as classical and Celtic meet in this program featuring Celtic music superstar Natalie MacMaster and ETSO concertmaster Mark Miller.  Each performer will be featured in solo works with the ETSO and they will team up for a duet with ETSO.   Date January 17, 2015 , 7:30 p.m. Location UT Tyler Cowan Center Program (click on links below to hear music samples)   Mozart: Rondo in C, K. 373 Massanet: Méditation from Thaïs Elgar: Serenade Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Plus selections by Natalie MacMaster and a Dueling Fiddles duet