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Steven Moeckel and Paula Fan will perform Wednesday night at the TSO concert in SaddleBrooke.
Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star 2005

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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.20.2007
Tucson Desert Harmony does well in competition
Tucson Desert Harmony recently snagged a third-place finish in the Southwestern Regional Competition for Sweet Adelines International. Chorus director Dayle Ann Cook led the group in "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Pal of My Cradle Days" to boost the group ahead of eight other choruses. Overall, the group's scores also rose, a testament to the members' hard work over the past year.
Cook and her quartet, SparX, are headed to the international competitions in October in Canada. They'll have good company with assistant director Karen Meade and her quartet, One Voice, which qualified for the internationals with a first-place finish in the quartet competition.
Tucson Desert Harmony has entertained locally for more than 20 years. The group presents an annual show in the fall in venues that have included the Berger Performing Arts Center and, last year, the Fox Theatre.
To learn more about Tucson Desert Harmony, visit online at www.tucsondesertharmony.org.
SaddleBrooke concert will be a first for TSO
The Tucson Symphony Orchestra is playing its first concert at SaddleBrooke on Wednesday.
A contingent of TSO musicians will play a show that amounts to a best-of concert. "Stars of Symphony" will include everything from jazz to classical music.
The musicians performing are concertmaster Steven Moeckel, assistant concertmaster Carla Ecker, principal oboist Lindabeth Binkley, principal flutist Alexander Lipay, principal keyboardist Paula Fan and the TSO Brass Quintet — Michael Walk and Betsy Bright on trumpets, Kristine Crandall on horn, Michael Becker on trombone and Michael Sherline on tuba.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at SaddleBrooke's DesertView Performing Arts Center, 38759 S. Mountain View Blvd. Tickets are $38 at tickets.saddlebrooke mvcountryclub.com/ or by calling 818-1000 .
3 Tucson performers to offer eclectic concert
A trio of Tucsonans will take Tucson from Baroque to Broadway on Sunday.
Soprano Elena Todd will provide the vocals and be accompanied by violinist Benjamin Nisbet and pianist Mary Lonsdale Baker.
So just who are these folks?
• Todd has been a guest with everyone from the Catalina Chamber Orchestra to the Tucson Civic Orchestra and the Masterworks Chorale.
• Nisbet is in demand as a chamber player. He is a regular with the DayStar Players. He also helms his own string quartet.
• Baker and Todd have teamed up for years, collaborating on repertoire as varied as German lieder and French chansons and operettas. They also throw in a little Gilbert and Sullivan, turn-of-the-century parlor songs and tunes from musical theater.
Sunday's concert begins at 3 p.m. at Casas Adobes Congregational United Church of Christ, 6801 N. Oracle Road. Admission is free. 297-1181.
UA Symphonic Choir to cap season with flair
The University of Arizona Symphonic Choir closes its year on Sunday with a concert that has a little bit of everything. You'll hear some Renaissance pieces, a bit of Baroque, contemporary works, selections by female composers and excerpts from musical shows.
There's also an Arizona premiere performance of Emmanuel Sejourne's "Book of Gems," a five-movement work for choir and percussion.
Elizabeth Schauer will lead the choir in a program that includes Renaissance-music works by John Dowland; "Der Geist hilft," one of six motets by J.S. Bach; works by Alice Parker and Joan Szymko; and the first-act finales from "West Side Story" and "The Fantasticks."
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Crowder Hall, North Park Avenue and East Speedway. Admission is free. 621-2998.
– Cathalena E. Burch
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