We drove down to Peoria yesterday to hear Ben play in the IMEA (Illinois Music Educators Association) All State Honors Orchestra concert. In the violin seating auditions Ben placed first and so he was concertmaster – very exciting! He had a couple of solos in Red Cape Tango (based on Superman) by Michael Daugherty – here are the excerpts with his solos:
Download Red Cape Tango (1st excerpt)
Download Red Cape Tango (2nd excerpt)
Here’s a more compressed video of the whole of Red Cape Tango (his solos are from about 2:15-3:15 and 9:45-10:45 minutes into the video):
(Click on the photo of the orchestra at the top of this post to see a bigger version of it, then click ‘all sizes’, ‘original size’ to see the full size image)