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The Nutcracker comes to Tyler

November 19th, 2010

Tyler Texas Nut Cracker PlayDecember 4, 2010 the famous ballet The Nutcracker is coming to Tyler. The East Texas Symphony Orchestra along with the Tyler Junior College Academy of Dance are putting on the beautiful ballet. The matinee will be at 2:00 and the evening concert will be at 7:30 at UT Tyler Cowan Center.

The popular German ballet is known all over the world and has been preformed by all different ballet groups. The story is about a young German girl, Clara, who dreams about being with a Nutcracker. But she can not be with her love without fighting off an evil mouse king with seven heads, which ended up only taking nothing more that hitting him in the head with a shoe.

It starts off with Clara at Christmas, she breaks a dear toy, a Nutcracker. Once the clock strikes midnight she begins to shrink and the Nutcracker, and tree and everything around her starts to come to life.

The Nutcracker wakes up and leads an army into war with the Mouse King and his army of mice. The Nutcracker is not match for the mice army as they quickly start to take him away. Clara then throws her shoe at the Mouse King and kills him. The Nutcracker turns into a prince and sweeps Clara off her feet.

There are many different worlds that you will travel through during the story from snow lands to candy worlds. While traveling these worlds they meet a Sugar Plum Fairy and dancing snowflakes. The ballet has everything from fight scenes to love stories. The beautiful costumes will bring the story to life in front of your eyes.

This ballet is a winter favorite. The Nutcracker has become a big part of Christmas. You can not walk through a Christmas decoration store without seeing something on the story. This is a great date idea for the winter season, it is something different in Tyler than going out to eat or to a movie.

East Texas Symphony Orchestra

July 23rd, 2010

After a summer of investigating Tyler’s cultural events and institutions, I’m going to be forced to change my mind about the opportunities in our area. I’m beginning to think that those who complain about a lack things to do either have not looked very hard, or simply never take advantage of the existing activities. I’ve been told that many or most, of those who live in New York City, have never actually been to a Broadway play, or visited the many museums in town on the basis that those are tourist attractions. Most New Yorkers are simply too busy with the day to day business of life to mingle with the City’s visitors or take in opportunities that surround them all the time. Perhaps in a small way we Tylerites are the same way. Well, there is a particular series of concerts beginning this fall that I hope East Texans will take the opportunity to enjoy. It’s one of our greatest area traditions, and it’s beginning its sixty seventh season. Of course I’m referring to the East Texas Symphony Orchestra (ETSO).

            The ETSO was first formed in 1930, but took a fourteen year hiatus during the Second World War, and reopened again in 1950. It came to be known by its current name the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, in 1954. Over the years the Symphony has had tremendous community support. Financial support comes from the generosity of individuals in the community, corporate giving and local civic organizations. In a year of economic turmoil, the Symphony finds itself in greater need of financial contributions and has launched a public fund raising campaign to that end. As of the 1997- 98 season the Orchestra has performed largely at the Cowan Arts Center at the University of Texas at Tyler, but in the past some of the favorite performances were its concerts in the park.

            The 2010- 2011 concert series kicks off on September twenty- fifth with a performance by 2009 Van Cliburn Competition winner, Haochen Zhang. On December fourth, the ETSO partners with the Tyler Junior College, Academy of Dance to present Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. On January fifteenth, the East Texas Symphony Orchestra presents Disney in Concert, a performance of some of the production company’s best loved music. Finally, on April thirtieth the ETSO will say goodbye to music director and conductor, Per Brevig, with a performance entitled Bravo Brevig, featuring guest musicians, Elena Urioste and Derek Hawkes.

Season tickets and packages are on sale now. For more information or to make a donation to the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, visit their web site at http://www.etso.org/index.php. Or for reservations, call their office at 903-566-7424.      end_of_the_skype_highlighting