by Daniel Hathaway

On Sunday afternoon, September 12, a new ensemble and a new venue made their joint orchestral debut as the Blue Water Chamber Orchestra played its first concert under its founder and conductor Carlton R. Woods at St. Ignatius High School’s Breen Center in Ohio City.

Mr. Woods chose a substantial menu of attractive chamber orchestra works for Blue Water’s first outing: Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, Hanson’s Serenade for Flute, Harp and Strings, Beethoven’s Romance in F for violin and orchestra, Elgar’s Serenade for Strings and Ginastera’s Variaciones Concertantes — one piece each from France, the US, Austria, England and Argentina that required the orchestra to quickly adapt between national styles. [Read more…]