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Mac
Frampton and the Hollywood Hills Orchestra to perform TSU
concert Feb. 25
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Some
of America’s favorite romantic music will be featured when Troy
State University plays host to Mac Frampton and the Hollywood Hills
Orchestra in concert on Monday, Feb. 25.
“Heart and Soul: Great Love Songs of the Fifties” is
set for 7:30 p.m. in the Claudia Crosby Theater, located on University Avenue
on the TSU campus. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for students and are available
at Troy-area banks, Troy Radio Shack and TSU’s John M. Long School of Music.
Call (334) 670-3322 for ticket information.
Sponsored by the Troy Council on the Arts and Humanities and
by the TSU Lyceum Committee, the concert is part of the season series of the
Troy Council on the Arts and Humanities.
The concert will feature a number of popular ballads and romantic
hits from the 1950s, including “My Foolish Heart,” “Moonglow,” “A
Love Affair” and “West Side Story.” It will also highlight
the hits of some of the decade’s top performers, including Perry Como,
Doris Day and Nat “King” Cole.
Featured performers include:
- Mac Frampton,
a concert pianist, conductor and arranger who has played hundreds of concerts
and produced more than 20 albums during a 30-year career;
- The Hollywood
Hills Orchestra, a 16-piece orchestral ensemble that has performed some
200 concerts since it was founded by Frampton in 1995 to recreate the
best music in cinema;
- Cecil Welch, a co-founder
of the Hollywood Hills Orchestra, renowned trumpet player and longtime
performer with Henry Mancini and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra;
- The Starlite
Singers, an Atlanta-based vocal ensemble of leading studio singers; and
- Martin Sauser,
a top concert violinist and former concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra.
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