Travel around Europe by rail with “Ticket to Ride,” beginning with Jim Stephenson’s musical tribute to miniature trains, ROCOmotive. Conductor (see what we did there!) Brett Mitchell steered the proceedings in his ROCO debut, taking audiences on a tour to England and Germany with Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, Poland with Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa, France with the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1, featuring Richard Belcher, ROCO principal cello, as soloist, and finally to Austria with Mozart’s Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”. Recorded February 23, 2019 at The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX.
ROCO In Concert: Ticket to Ride (February 2019)
2018-2019, Brett Mitchell, Cello, Comp, Composer, Concertmaster, Concerto, Conductor, Haffner, Kilar, Mozart, Orawa, Richard Belcher, ROCO Commission, ROCOmotive, Saint-Saëns, Scott St. John, Season Fourteen, Smyth, Soloist, St. John the Divine, Stephenson, Symphony, World Premiere, Wreckers
Saturday, Feb 23 2019, 5:00pm