With Strings Attached

Buddy Wachter, banjo
Margaret Dugdale, violin

Glinka, Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla
Vivaldi, Concerto for Two Violins in A Minor (with banjo)
Saint-Säens La Bacchanale
Dance of the Comedians
Tiger Rag
Stephen Foster Tribute

Banjo? Yes banjo! Seeing and hearing is believing as the season concludes with an amazing display of unexpected virtuosity. Between Buddy Wachter's lighting fast picking of classical and popular favorites and the DSO string section's fiery bowing, you are sure to walk away shaking your head in awe. Selections with banjo include waltzes, marches, rags, dances, Broadway tunes and even a duet with concertmaster Margaret Dugdale.

"One does not normally see a banjo take center stage at an orchestra concert, yet after hearing Buddy Wachter one is left feeling that there is no better instrument to demonstrate the heritage of American music." Walter Cronkite

"He has elevated America's premiere folk instrument to a level of concert legitimacy" The New York Times