2016 BLUE LAKE SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL – Highlights –
In June 2016, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp will open doors on its 50th anniversary season. Brotons & Mercadal is represented in several events and we would like to invite you to visit Michigan or to follow the online broadcast.
Throughout the Summer Arts Festival, Blue Lake offers more than 175 performances to our public and camper audiences with select concerts broadcast live on Blue Lake Public Radio—WBLV 90.3 (Muskegon, MI) and WBLU 88.9 (Grand Rapids, MI), as well as online at bluelake.org.
JULY
Friday, July 1
7:30 p.m.
Miller Theater
The Blue Lake Opera Department presents:
Music by James Niblock
Libretto by Helen Niblock
Based on a short story by O. Henry
Saturday, July 9
7:30 p.m.
Stewart Music Shell
Blue Lake Festival Orchestra
Featuring James Niblock’s Violin Concerto
Dr. Alexander Jiménez, conductor; Director of Orchestras at Florida State University
Walter Verdehr, violin; Distinguished Professor of Violin at Michigan State University
Friday, July 15
7:30 p.m.
Miller Theater
The Blue Lake Opera Department presents:
Music by James Niblock
Libretto by Helen Niblock
Based on a short story by O. Henry
Friday, July 29
7:30 p.m.
Miller Theater
The Blue Lake Opera Department presents:
Music by James Niblock
Libretto by Helen Niblock
Based on a short story by O. Henry
AUGUST
Friday, August 12
7:30 p.m.
Blodgett Recital Hall
Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival Event
Guest Recital
Alessandro Fossi, tuba; International tuba soloist and Teacher of Tuba at the Claudio Monteverdi Conservatory in Balzano, Italy
J. Niblock, Concertino for Leonard Falcone
Friday, August 12
7:30 p.m.
Miller Theater
The Blue Lake Opera Department presents:
Music by James Niblock
Libretto by Helen Niblock
Based on a short story by O. Henry
Saturday, August 13
7:30 p.m.
Blodgett Recital Hall
Falcone Festival Adjudicator Recital
This event is part of the 2016 Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival and Competition.
Sunday, August 14—7:30 p.m.
Blue Lake Festival Band
Joseph Manfredo, conductor; Associate Professor of Music at Illinois State University
Alessandro Fossi, tuba; International tuba soloist and Teacher of Tuba at the Claudio Monteverdi Conservatory in Balzano, Italy
This Summer Arts Festival event is also a part of the 2016 Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival and Competition.
Monday, August 15
7:30 p.m.
Blodgett Recital Hall
Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival Event
Artist Competition, featuring
Blue Lake Festival Band
Joseph Manfredo, conductor
Friday, August 19
7:15 p.m.
Stewart Music Shell
Blue Lake Staff Band
Featuring music of Verdi, Ticheli, Dello Joio, Brotons, and Kovats
Donald Flickinger, conductor; Blue Lake’s Vice President for Program and Broadcasting
Dr. Salvador Brotons, conductor; Music Director of the Barcelona Symphonic Band and the Vancouver (Washington) Symphony Orchestra
These works edited by Brotons & Mercadal will be performed:
- Brotons / Rebroll
- Brotons / Symphony # 6 “Concisa”
You can buy a CD with a life recording of the “Galakonzert in der Tonhalle Zürich 2016” by Stadharmonie Zürich Oerlikon-Seebach (Zurich Concert Band, conductor: Carlo Balmelli) shop here
There is also a CD with the Banda Municipal de Barcelona, dir.: Salvador Brotons:
BROTONS, S.: Symphony No. 6, “Concise” / Rebroll / Obstinacy / Glosa de l’Emigrant (Barcelona Symphonic Band, Dir: S. Brotons)
Saturday, August 20
7:30 p.m.
Stewart Music Shell
Blue Lake Festival Orchestra
Featuring Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1,” Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” Borodin’s “Symphony No. 2,” H. Owen Reed’s “Michigan Morn,” and Ludolph Arens’s “Canterbury Lane.”
Dr. Salvador Brotons, conductor; Music Director of the Barcelona Symphonic Band and the Vancouver (Washington) Symphony Orchestra
