ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Symphony Orchestra
- Date: March 5th, 2021
- Location: Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts, Parmer Hall
- Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
- Cost: Free
Timothy Dixon, conductor
Open to on campus faculty, staff and students only. Must show ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ ID for entrance. Must wear face mask and social distance at all times. This event will be .
The ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Symphony Orchestra will begin their their concert with Mozart’s Serenata Notturna - a serenade for strings and timpani - featuring student soloists Emily Remp, Evie Miller, Clara Yu, and Vanessa Skidmore. Following that will be the Symphony No. 2 by Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. A contemporary of Mozart, Bologne is known best as the first composer of classical musical of African ancestry. The son of a French nobleman and an enslaved woman of Senegalese origin from modern day Haiti, Bologne was a violin virtuoso, conductor, and a musical entrepreneur. He was also a champion fencer who fought in the Haitian revolution. The second symphony consists of music written for his opera - L'Amant Anonyme. The program will conclude with the Mussorgsky masterwork- Pictures at an Exhibition as orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. The work depicts in tones a series of paintings and sketches of the composer’s deceased friend, Viktor Hartmann.
*Event details subject to change. Please see arts.messiah.edu for updates.
