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05-Feb-2016
Amy Jo Sawyer Performs with the St. Louis Symphony, Illinois – USAby Harley Jones |
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 Accordionist Amy Jo Sawyer performed with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s at the United States premiere of Disney’s Academy Award winning movie ‘Ratatouille’. This event took place at Powell Hall, Belleville, Illinois.Photo: Guitarist Steve Schenkel, Amy Jo Sawyer and guitarist Kirk Hanser were performing with the St. Louis Symphony. Sara Hicks, winner of many music awards, was the conductor of the symphony orchestra producing live music to the film being viewed on a high-definition big screen. The music required a French musette accordion sound as performed by Frank Marocco in the original movie. Amy Jo Sawyer said she was “privileged” to know Frank Marocco. “He was a wonderful friend who passed away three years ago,” she said. “He organized the Frank Marocco Accordion Event held in Mesa, Arizona, that I attended annually for five years. He liked my original music for accordion orchestra and chose to have the 50 piece orchestra perform my music in each annual concert.” Marocco also chose to have her original Tango, ‘Juntos’ (Together), performed in a concert he conducted in 2011 in Castelfidardo, Italy. Amy Jo Sawyer enjoyed very much performing with the St. Louis Symphony for this sold out concert. |