August 28 – pops featuring Angela Lickiss Aleo

No concert would be complete without Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. The Benzie Symphony brings a pops concert to Frankfort with works by the famous composer, Leroy Anderson. Themes from James Bond movies will be featured as well as the massive work, the Great Gate of Kiev. The Benzie Symphony will feature our very own Angela Lickiss Aleo as oboe soloist on the charming Flower Clock by French composer Jean Francaix.

PERFORMANCE VENUE:

Congregational Summer Assembly

2128 Pilgrim Highway Frankfort, MI 49635

REPERTOIRE

L'Horloge de FLore – by Jean Francaix, featuring Angela Lickiss Aleo on Oboe

Themes from 007, arr. Calvin Custer

Alfred Leroy Anderson Suite: The Typewriter -The Syncopated Clock -Bugler’s Holiday

1812 Overture, by Tchaikovsky

Lehmeir Great Gate of Kiev, from Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky/Reibold

About Angela Lickiss Aleo

Angela started playing the piano at age three and was immediately hooked. When she was 11, she began playing the oboe and went on to earn a Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance from Middle Tennessee State University, a Master’s of Music in Oboe Performance from The Boston Conservatory, and a Doctorate of Music in Oboe Performance and Pedagogy with a Secondary Area in Music History from the University of Iowa. She wrote her DMA thesis about Ross Edwards and his music for Oboe and English horn. Her teachers were Dewayne Pigg, Kyoko Hida, Mark Weiger, Humbert Lucarelli, and Andrew Parker.