Tuesday, January 20, 2009

OB Library & Senior Center hosts Award Winning Classical Guitarist Peter Fletcher


The Orange Beach Public Library and Orange Beach Senior Center are pleased to be hosting a performance featuring Award Winning Classical Guitarist Peter Fletcher. Mr. Fletcher will perform on Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. at the Orange Beach Senior Center located at 26251 Canal Road in Orange Beach. This concert will be a ticketed event with only 110 tickets available. Tickets are on sale at the Orange Beach Public Library. The cost of the tickets is $5.00 per person.

This concert will feature selections from Fletcher’s 2008 CD release on Tower Hill Records, Music of the Baroque. Other repertoire will include the E minor Lute Suite of J. S. Bach; Fletcher’s transcriptions of Erik Satie and Edvard Grieg; Usher-Waltz, an unusual and intense piece by Russian guitarist and composer Nikita Koshkin; Andrew York’s Sunburst and music of Weiss and Reusner. The concert will culminate with Koyunbaba, by composer/guitarist Carlo Domeniconi. This is one of the most unique and exciting works in the classical guitar repertoire.

For more information on Peter Fletcher visit his website at www.peterfletcher.com.

For more concert information contact the library at 251-981-2923, visit the website at www.orangebeachlibrary.org or email mbaroco@cityoforangebeach.com.