Redlands Bowl 2001 Season
July 20th 
Programs start at 8:15 p.m. 

Summer Festival Symphony Orchestra. "On Our Way Up:" Frank Fetta, conductor. Shostakovich Piano Concerto performed by guest pianist, 14-year-old Angela Chang.

Redlands Summer Festival Symphony Orchestra presents its second concert. With a fourteen-year-old pianist in charge of the Shostakovich piano concerto, the Redlands Summer Festival Symphony Orchestra will live
up to its concert title, "On Our Way Up," when it presents its second concert for the Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival on Friday, June 20, at 8:15 p.m., at the Redlands Bowl.

Angela Chang of Los Angeles will be making her second appearance at Redlands Bowl, having first performed when she was nine years old, playing the Haydn piano concerto. Redlands Bowl Artistic Director and Maestro
Frank Fetta, who will conduct the orchestra, has worked with Chang many times, performing with her throughout the Los Angeles area for children's concerts, and conducting her last year as she soloed on the Liszt Hungarian Fantasy with the Marina del Rey-Westchester Symphony, which Fetta also conducts. "When I heard her play," Fetta said, "I thought she was marvelous, so I brought her here to the Redlands Bowl."

Chang began studying piano at age six and within two years she had won the gold medal in the Southern California Junior Bach Festival Complete Works, was named Young Musicians' Foundation Scholar, and performed in the International Young Artists Peninsula Music Festival. She continues to win awards in competitions throughout California, and she has performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, where her playing was broadcast on the Russia Central Radio.

According to Fetta, the Shostakovich piano concerto is orchestrated for a smaller ensemble of solo piano, strings, and trumpet. Taking advantage of the chamber-sized orchestra required for this work, Fetta has programmed three other works to feature the outstanding string and
principle players from the Redlands Symphony Orchestra. Trumpeter David Scott will play for the Shostakovich work and for Aaron Copland's Quiet City, also orchestrated for strings and trumpet and for English horn which will be played by principle Francisco Castillo.

Castillo will also be featured in Bach's the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto in which he will play oboe. For this work, Fetta will play harpsichord, Sara Andon will play flute, and Zhong Hui Dai, from the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, will play solo trumpet. Also on the program will be Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik . Using the small orchestra on the Redlands Bowl stage provides
audiences with a chance to hear some marvelous music literature, says Fetta. "There is so much repertoire for a group this size, it's a pity to not let people hear it for fear the sound will be lost in this venue. I've gotten some of my biggest sounds from small orchestras."

According to Fetta, the amount of sound a work elicits depends on the manner the composer scores the work. "The Shostakovich piece is so brilliant, it sounds much bigger than it looks. So does the Bach. With these works, the audience gets a whole lot of music," Fetta asserted.
The intermission speaker for this concert will be Florence H. Beeler, Program Consultant for the Redlands Community Music Association, Inc. Intermission ushers will be members of the American Association of University Women.

The Children's Festival Workshop, presented by Southland Opera, will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 21, at Redlands Community Center, 111 W. Lugonia Avenue.

Continuing the tradition begun in 1924, this and all Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival events are open to the public at no charge, and a free-will offering will be collected at intermission. For more information about this concert, call the Redlands Bowl office at 909/793-7316 or visit the web site at www.redlandsweb.com.

To reach the Redlands Bowl between Eureka and Grant Streets in Redlands, enter the Redlands area on I-10; from the west, exit at Orange Street, turn right at the end of the ramp onto Eureka Street, proceed across Redlands Blvd. and Brookside Ave. to the Bowl area; from the east,
exit at Sixth Street, turn left at the end of the ramp onto Sixth Street, proceed to Pearl Ave. and turn right to Orange Street, turn left on Orange to Brookside Ave., turn right on Brookside to Eureka Street, and turn left on Eureka to the Bowl area. Parking is on streets in the area, or in the church and public parking lots.