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The Longmont Symphony Orchestra 4th of July 2012 Summer Concert in the Park on Wednesday, July 4th at 12:00 noon in Longmont's Olde Town Thompson Park, located at Bross Street and 4th Avenue. Complete with Stars and Stripes, a picnic contest and booming cannon, this free performance can't be missed. This concert was broadcast worldwide on the Classic America and the Radio Colorado Network of stations. Click Listen button to hear to the Mp3 recording of the concert.

Robert Olson

Music Director

Summerfest 2012 - Christ By the Sea, United Methodist, Vero Beach

Wednesday, August 08, 2012, 07:30pm

Ft. Lauderdale's Symphony of the Americas will host the Mission Chamber Orchestra of Rome for Summerfest, under the baton of the Symphony's Artistic Director, Maestro James Brooks-Bruzzese. Orchestral concerts feature the music of Bach, Corelli, Saint-Saens, Borodin, Mendelssohn, and a world premiere by Italian composer & soloist, Lorenzo Turchi-Floris. Musicians of the Symphony of the Americas will join the orchestra in cultural exchange, for all concerts in Europe, throughout Florida, and Central America, highlighted by the Symphony's principal flute soloist, Marilyn Maingart.

Summerfest presented by American Airlines, annually hosts an acclaimed European chamber orchestra for one month of cultural exchange performances throughout Florida and the Americas, joined by selected members of the Symphony of the Americas, and funded in part by the Broward Cultural Council. Symphony of the Americas is Broward's only professional orchestra, and Broward Center for the Performing Arts is its performance home.

Summerfest begins July 9 with nearly 25 performances throughout Florida and continuing with 2012 cultural exchange performances in Panama. Activities include performances, master classes, and educational outreach, taking the masterful sounds of this great ensemble to audiences in corners of the world who have never before experienced the exhilaration of live performances of great composers.

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Maestro Jmaes Breooks-Bruzzesee

Mission Chamber Orchestra of Rome

"Maestro Brooks-Bruzzese is one of the best conductors I have ever worked with, as a soloist and as a member of the orchestra. He keeps you on your toes, demands perfection and that's why we are so good. We all try to give him our best. The administration wonderful to work with, and the Symphony is the only orchestra in South Florida that gets paid the night of each performance "

Marilyn Maingart, Principal Flutist of the Symphony of the Americas and the Palm Beach Pops in Florida has extended her virtuosity playing in recordings, television, radio, Broadway productions, rock, opera, and chamber music. She has performed in Europe, with James Galway in London, on Belgian Radio and Television, in the Czech Republic, Greece and Hungary. In 1998-2001 Marilyn toured throughout the Orient with the world-renowned Montovani Orchestra. In the United States she has performed in Philadelphia, Nashville, Colorado, New York, Florida and Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, as well as two performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

Marilyn was the featured soloist for the Symphony of the Americas Summerfest tour 2000, 2001 and 2008 with the Czech Moravian Virtuosi and in 2002 with the Greek Hellenic Camerata and in 2003 with the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra through all of Central America and in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.

She has performed with "Opera Barga" in Barga, Italy, playing six weeks of Puccini operas. Marilyn studied with John-Pierre Rampal in Nice, France and was the Grand Prize winner of the First Annual Financial Federal Musical Showcase Competition in Miami.

Marilyn Maingart

Principal Flute ~ Symphony of the Americas

Soloist ~ Symphony of the Americas Summerfest

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