Erie Chamber Orchestra
Director: Bruce Morton Wright
in residence at

Celebrating 31 years

 of bringing music to the entire community

Guess the Composer Winners

"Our Twelve Guess the Composer Concert Winners"
 Friday - February 17, 2006
7:30 p.m.
 Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel
 Gannon University
 512 Peach Street
 Erie, Pennsylvania 16541

Professor Annmarie George (left) with the Guess the Composer Winners

 

Jonathan Gaber

Warren King

Janet Krack

Howard Krack

Almanda Redinger

Theodore Richard Ignatious Nestor lll

La Donna Shanahan

David Szymanski

Jane Guy-Yocum

Juliann Zawadski

 

 Not present in the picture were winners

 Sisters Lucille DeStefano & Jean Wolbert

 

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The winning choices were as follows:

Johann C. Bach                           -   Astarto Overture No. 6

 Wolfgang A Mozart                               - Adagio and Fugue

 Alessandro Scarlatti                   - Sinfonia No. 5 in D minor

Joseph Haydn      -  Symphony No. 8 in G Major “Le Soir”

"Our Two Guess the Composer Concert Winners"
 Friday - February 25, 2005
7:30 p.m.
 Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel
 Gannon University
 512 Peach Street
 Erie, Pennsylvania 16541

Once again for 2005, our two "Guess the Composer Winners"

 Sisters Lucille DeStefano & Jean Wolbert

"Our Four Guess the Composer Concert Winners"
 Friday - February 20, 2004
7:30 p.m.
 Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel
 Gannon University
 512 Peach Street
 Erie, Pennsylvania 16541

                

   Sisters Lucille DeStefano & Jean Wolbert            Roy and Marilyn Voshall                    

Our one and only 2003 "Guess the Composer Winners"
February 7, 2003

Once again, Sister Jean Wolbert an, music instructor at Sacred Heart Catholic School was our only winner at our year 2003 "Guess the Composer" Concert. She has performed with such choral organizations as the Presque Isle Choral, Erie Philharmonic Chorus and the Erie Opera Theatre. Sister Wolbert has correctly identified all the composers for a number of years with a system that everyone is trying to learn. She is pictured above with several of her music students.

"Guess the Composer Concert"
 Friday - February 7, 2003
7:30 p.m.
 Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel
 Gannon University
 512 Peach Street
 Erie, Pennsylvania 16541

February 8, 2002
"Our Five 2002 Guess the Composer Winners"

(Front Row) - Ruth Sybrant/ Anne Wintle
 (Second Row) -Aneta Kalicka/ Marjolaine Lafarl
 George -"Narrator"/ Albert Glinsky/ Daniel Burdick
 

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  This year the above six participants 
 choose the five correct composers from the following list: 

  Leroy Anderson  
Josef Myslivecek
Giovanni Martinu
Johann Friedrich Reichart
Wolfgang A. Mozart
    Domenico Cimarosa      
   Falsche Wahl      
Johann Graun   
Kaspar Fritz
Leonard Bernstein
Giovanni Paisiello

On February 8 the
 Erie Chamber Orchestra
performed the following five composers:

Josef Myslivecek        - Sinfonia No. 1 in D Major
    Leroy Anderson                           - Summer Skies    
          Johann Friedrich Reichart    - Sinfonia in G Major          
        Giovanni Paisello                  - Sinfonia in D Major         
 Kaspar Fritz                  - Sinfonia No. 1 In B Major 

 "Our One 2001 Guess the Composer Winners"

 Pictures from the February 9, 2001 Concert

    

                              Winner - Brain O'Leary         Soloist - Mary Ann Saylor - Viola/ Brain O'Leary/
                                                                      Soloist - Harry Jacobson - Bass

Brian O'Leary was the only person to correctly identified all of the composers in the Erie Chamber Orchestra's Annual "Guess the composer."

The Erie Chamber Orchestra
performed on
February 9, 2001 five works from the
following possible composers:
1) Giuseppi Stalder
2) Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
3) Giuseppe Tartini
4) Tomaso Traetta
5) Joseph Haydn
6) Wolfgang A. Moazrt
7) Alessandro Scarlatti
8) Yrita Uudelleen
9) Franz Richter
10) Karel Husa
11) Pierre van Maldere

Works Performed
     Giuseppi Stalder - Symphony in E Flat
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf - Symphony Concertante for Viola and Bass
 Giuseppe Tartini - Concerto for Orchestra No. 58 in F
Tomaso Traetta -  Sinfonia in D
  Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 24 in D

"Our One 2000 Guess the Composer Winners"

 Pictures from the February 18, 2000 Concert
Annmarie George       Sister Jean Wolbert
              Program Narrator       Guess the Composer Winner
    

               
 
 

         
Friday -February 18, 2000
7:30 p.m.
 Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel
 Gannon University
 512 Peach Street
 Erie, Pennsylvania 16541

    Composers performed on
February 18, 2000

Giovanni Paisiello      - Barber of Seville Overture
Giacomo Puccini                    - Minuet No. 1 in A
C. Cannabich -         Concert flute/ oboe/ bassoon
CPE Bach                          - Symphony No. 3 in F
Karl F. Abel         - Little Symphony in F, Op. 1/5
Alessandro Scarlatti              -  Sinfonia No. 1 in F
Luigi Boccherini        - Sinfonia, Op. 22/1 in B flat

February 19, 1999
"Our four Guess the Composer Winners"

Sister Lucille DeStefano is an Associate Professor in Fine Arts at Gannon University. She is also an instructor for piano and has served as Organist for the Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel. Sister DeStefano has often correctly identified all of the composers and has been known to give subtle clues to the students in her msuci class. This year Sister DeStefano was able to identify all of the composers from the program notes before the the works were performed by the orchestra.

Cheryl Jordan is a graduate of Baldwind-Wallace College Conservatory and has performed with the Erie Playhouse and Erie opera Theatre. Ms. Jordan is the music instructor at Stairways center for Arts and Culture and directs the Chancel Choir at Girard Presbyterian Church. This is also the second year that Ms. Jordan has identified each composer.
 

Sister Jean Wolbert is the music instructor for Sacred Heart Catholic School.Sister Wolbert has performed with such choral organizations as the Presque Isle Choral, Erie Philharmonic Chorus and the Erie Opera Theatre. This is also the second year that Sister Wolbert has identified all the composers.

Elizabeth Ann Guelcher is the wife of Robert T. Guelcher MD. Both she and her husband have been long time supporters of the Erie Chamber Orchestra and the Erie Opera Theatre. As an active participant in the Erie area cultural world, this is the first year that Ms. Guelcher has correctly identified all the composers. She attributes her success to not taking her husband's advice on the name of one composer. Mr. Guelcher missed identifying the composers by one name.

 

 

The Erie Chamber Orchestra performed
six works from the following composers:
1) Antonio Vivaldi
2) Leroy Anderson
3) Wolfgang A. Mozart
4) Jiri antonon benda
5) Domenico Cimarosa
6) Karl Stamiz
7) Victor Herbert
8) Gerog Philpp Teleman
9) Michael O'Keefe
10) Hans Gothchau

The Compositions Performed
1) Sinfonia in B flat
2) Saraband
3) Sinfonie in E flat
4) Sinfonia lV
5) Fleurette
6) Symphony No. 21

The Correct listing of composers performed
on February 19, 1999
5) Domenico Cimarosa
2) Leroy Anderson
6) Karl Stamiz
4) Jiri antonon benda
7) Victor Herbert
3) Wolfgang A. Mozart

Each February the Erie Chamber Orchestra performs its "Guess the Composer" concert. This is an event which is anticipated by many of our concert audience. Audience members receive a program which has names of several composers. Each composer has a number by their names which must be placed by the listed work that the orchestra performed.

There are some notes on the possible composer in the program which give the contestant an idea of who the composer might be, and a narrative on the composer is also presented to give some additional clues. The orchestra will then perform a number of works from unfamiliar and familiar composers. At the end of the concert, the conductor reviews the correct list of composers and all those concert audience members that have the right answers receive a "Music Certificate."

The next "Guess the Composer" performance will take place on February 9 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gannon University/ Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel/ 512 Peach Street/ Erie, Pennsylvania.

This concert has become very popular and has forced the orchestra members to cover the names of the composers on their music placed on their music stands due to people bringing binoculars to read these names. "The audience has become very competitive and seems to develop more and more effective means to guess the composers' name. Thus far the orchestra members have proven to be above bribery, however..."


For further information please contact the following web sites:

 Bruce Morton Wright, Director of Erie Chamber Orchestra/ Erie Opera Theatre.
 Clarence E. Beyers, Supporter of the Erie Chamber Orchestra/ Erie Opera Theatre.
 Gannon University, Residency of the Erie Chamber Orchestra/ Mr. Wright-Faculty Member.
 Erie Chamber Orchestra, Home Page

Send comments, and questions to us at:

E-mail at wright002@mail1.gannon.edu
or send mail to:
Erie Chamber Orchestra
Director: Bruce Morton Wright
in residency at
Gannon University
P.O. Box 3287
Gannon University
Erie, Pennsylvania 16541
(814) 871 - 7755 


 

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