海角乱伦社区鈥檚 International Center for Music Orchestra to Host First Concert of 2021-22 Season on Oct. 1
Sept. 9, 2021 鈥� The 海角乱伦社区 Orchestra will present its first concert of the 2021-22 season on Friday, Oct. 1, beginning at 8 p.m. inside Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel on the University鈥檚 flagship Parkville Campus. Admission is free to the concert; however, reservations are required by e-mailing Gus Fernandez Agreda, ICM coordinator, at gfernandezagreda@park.edu. Masks are required inside the Chapel and social distance seating will be implemented.
During the season, the ICM Orchestra will be conducted by a series of guest conductors. The program for the opening concert will be under the direction of , director of the Dartmouth (College) Symphony Orchestra.
Ciabatti has selected three familiar works for the program. 鈥淭he Hebrides鈥� (also known as 鈥淔ingal鈥檚 Cave鈥�) overture composed by Felix Mendelssohn begins the concert with its mood of brooding melancholy alternating with moments of great tenderness and excitement. Mendelssohn wrote this work to evoke impressions of the coast of Scotland.
Ludwig van Beethoven鈥檚 鈥淧iano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor鈥� will also be featured, a piece that illustrates the many impressions of conflict that occurred in Vienna, Austria, during the Napoleonic Wars. Pianist Kyoshiro Hirama, a 2020 Park ICM graduate and current ICM graduate student pursuing a degree, will be featured soloist.
The concert concludes with 鈥淪ymphony No. 38 in D Major (K. 504)鈥� composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Popularly known as the 鈥淧rague Symphony,鈥� this work was written for Mozart鈥檚 return visit to the city where his opera, The Marriage of Figaro, had been enthusiastically received.
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