ASO Opens 49th Season With English Works
The Alma Symphony Orchestra opens its 49th season with a musical
trip to England that celebrates the engaging works of English composers
Joseph Haydn, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerard Finzi and Sir Arthur
Sullivan.
The concert takes place at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12 in the Remick
Heritage Center at Alma College. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for
seniors 62 and up, and free for Alma College staff, students and youth
18 and under. Seating is reserved. Call (989) 463-7304 for ticket
information.
The ASO also will perform an encore performance at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct.
13 at the Chippewa Hills High School Auditorium. The concert at
Chippewa Hills is free and open to the public.
Alma Symphony Orchestra
Music Director Murray Gross returns for his fifth season as the
10th conductor of the ASO since it was founded in 1960. The ASO
comprises a mixture of Alma College students and faculty and community
performers.
“The concert promises to be an exciting performance,” says Gross. “The
audience can expect colorful, beautiful and engaging music by prominent
English composers. We also promise a surprise piece during the
performance.”
The program will include Haydn’s “London” Symphony No. 104 in D Major
and Arthur Sullivan’s (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) Overture to
"Iolanthe."
Haydn, often referred to as the “father of symphony,” composed “London”
on one of his multiple travels to England, and it has been an audience
favorite since its premiere in 1795, says Gross. The piece is described
as tuneful, exuberant and considered by some to be among the greatest
of Haydn’s work.
Later this year the ASO will perform works by some of Russia’s greatest
composers on Nov. 23 and French favorites on Feb. 8, 2009. The season
concludes April 5, 2009 with the annual Masterworks Concert with the
Alma College Choir.
Posted: Thu, October 2nd, 2008 at 11:10AM
