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The TSO has been upgrading its website, and if you haven't visited recently you'll find a new look and all kinds of great new features. For example, if you go to the page for the Season Opening Concert you can listen to audio samples of the music on the concert. There are links to the guest artist's website and YouTube videos. And you can click on an icon and read the full program notes in advance of the concert. If you don't yet have tickets, you can buy single tickets online! Just click here to be taken to our <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bltkt7cab&et=1103736940533&s=1&e=001Aj1EK-3p0 nrRW_S__Go4wplog3QyybN5ZjI9fsnRp8Navcuarzwc9y39dtgklTlGj6lzBi5duVRZPh0VWhF96 1hYtMPzM1t46Q-NtwykdVS8lqwRM_v-kA==> website. Still Waiting to Subscribe? Don't Panic! Even though single tickets are now on sale, it's not too late to subscribe. We will be glad to help you. 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Reserved seats are $35, and general admission seating is $25. Click here to purchase <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bltkt7cab&et=1103736940533&s=1&e=001Aj1EK-3p0 nr1AeZ4ShetSmChgCdFbHRkbyntASNXrq3W_0-j6iHD4xp-_bdzFKRGvYs9tMTAakEfpWBOgCbFO uYTcesxzH-MibnTAmk3DyeoDAvGi2zxwZNwh_YN5U301lTcDPxMG679MFN-JBN746M85i-m1dwuV AGC0eRggL58L3ANwSEftxK3OMda-XkLfad9gcF68xU=> tickets. <http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs094/1102618905953/img/118.jpg> Season Opening concert on October 23 features groundbreaking guitar concerto The Tacoma Symphony Orchestra opens the 2010-2011 season with a globetrotting musical adventure that includes works evoking Paris, Spain, and the American West. Music Director Harvey Felder opens his 17th season with Chabrier's España and Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. Joining him for the second piece will be Croatian guitarist Ana Vidovic, whose playing was called "nuanced and intensely personal" by The Washington Post. Copland's Billy the Kid and Gershwin's An American in Paris will round out the second half of the program. Ana Vidovic last appeared regionally as a recitalist at the 2006 Northwest Guitar Festival in Bellingham in 2006, but her concert with the TSO marks her orchestral solo debut both in Washington and the Pacific Northwest. Concierto de Aranjuez, the first work ever written for guitar and orchestra, represented a daring leap in instrumentation -- posing the relatively quiet classical guitar against the full force of a symphony orchestra. More than 70 years later, it remains seminal in the repertory of Spanish music, artfully capturing the "fragrance of magnolias, the singing of birds, and the gushing of fountains" in the gardens of Aranjuez. Billy the Kid, the first major orchestral work Copland wrote in the distinctly American style that came to define him, captures the spirit of the Wild West through its creative adaptation of actual cowboy and folk tunes. The open chordal spacing and use of simple, direct harmonies spoke to audiences immediately -- as it still does today. An American in Paris was the third in a series of orchestral works by George Gershwin that began with Rhapsody in Blue and continued with Piano Concerto in F. Rather than focusing on the piano in the manner of the first two pieces, An American in Paris is a lush and colorful tone poem for orchestra that illustrates the experience of an American tourist visiting Paris. In order to evoke the bustling streets of Paris, with its endless braying taxis, the score calls for the use of four car horns. Dr. Gregory Youtz will lead a pre-concert talk about the music being performed beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the hall. Patrons are invited to come early to enhance their appreciation and enjoyment of the concert. They are also encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item with them. The TSO is collaborating with the Emergency Food Network to provide collection bins at every concert this season for distribution to the area needy. More information on this concert, including the complete program notes, is available on our website; click here <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bltkt7cab&et=1103736940533&s=1&e=001Aj1EK-3p0 npr7-m8zTQ9O_RabhOSJ41qxjoisINnJJRBmuNx5QPWglxD4R3lVZjZJy5xmFkD5Z88e1YaokdHF Ze0R7FszKJnHmYasio9SQ1RuQTx5R2XNGw39s5o2tQEwPcWMLOZHntecN8jmxndXN3sGLKe74Txb _XmEq11pjHIwbTYRLw6rKjP-Bi2Dw48> . TSO Gala a success The TSO Board, musicians and staff would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the September 17 Gala, "A Night in Vienna." The event grossed nearly $140,000, the most successful Gala the TSO has ever experienced. We are grateful to our sponsors, table hosts, auction donors, to the TSO Board members, and to our wonderful steering committee. 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