The Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra's performance Saturday of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 will feature, from left, Gared Crawford, Kara DeRaad Santos and Helen Skuggedal Reed.
The Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra will premiere a neglected masterwork and showcase a new concertmaster in Saturday's Classics concert in The Victory.
Gared Crawford, the orchestra's new acting concertmaster, will make his center-stage debut as part of a featured trio in the orchestra's premiere performance of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.
Another departure put him in Saturday's trio with harpsichordist Helen Skuggedal Reed and flutist
Kara DeRaad Santos. He moved into that spot when violinist Dawn Posey Ginter, originally scheduled to play Saturday, exited the orchestra with her husband, percussionist Jason Ginter, when he left the Philharmonic for graduate studies in Pittsburgh.
He is an award-winning chamber musician who toured the country with the Erato String Quartet.
Santos is an award-winning musician in her second season as the Philharmonic's principal flutist. Reed is a veteran player who made her Philharmonic debut in 1982 playing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.
Saturday's concert includes Maurice Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin," Richard Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll," and Franz Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 88, spanning more than two centuries of music.
In planning the program, Alfred Savia, the orchestra's music director, couldn't believe the orchestra's had never before played Bach's last Brandenburg Concerto in a main stage concert.
"This is possibly the most popular of all five of the concertos," Savia says.
The final Brandenburg concerto "was in a way, the first true harpsichord concerto," he adds.
"This paved the way for what was to eventually become all the great piano concertos."
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