Guest Artist Series: Philadelphia Classical SymphonyGuest Artist Series: Philadelphia Classical Symphonyhttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/63462Roberts Marshall Auditorium2009-05-09T20:00:002009-05-09T22:00:00
May 9, 8:00 PM
Roberts Marshall Auditorium
Karl Middleman, conductor of the Philadelphia Classical Symphony
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On Saturday, May 9th at 8 pm, the Guest Artist Series presents the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, conducted by Karl Middleman, performing “American Mosaics II” in Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium.
The concert is the second in a series that spotlights the remarkable flowering of music in America. Voices of poets and patriots - farmers, folk heroes and fanatics…. voices that made the unique saga of America, and that reinvent that saga every day! The program features the heady Wagnerian-influenced Serenade of New Englander George Whitefield Chadwick. Another New Englander - Aaron Copland – counters with jazz and spikiness in his exuberant Clarinet Concerto (composed for Benny Goodman). The effervescent young Californian, Gabriela Lena Frank draws upon her Peruvian heritage in Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout. Haverford College’s own Curt Cacioppo further explores the culture of American Indians in a world premiere commissioned through support of the Philadelphia Music Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts. Tickets are $15 (Gen), $12 (Sr), $8 (Students), and $5 (7-17). The concert is free to the bi-college community.
Founded in 1993 by artistic director Karl Middleman, the Philadelphia Classical Symphony is a 20-member chamber orchestra composed of outstanding Philadelphia-area leading professional musicians. The Classical Symphony is committed to promoting new ways to understand and present the history of music to today’s audiences. The story of music is more that notes on a page, it is a mirror of history, itself – a saga of passion, inspiration, intellect, politics, religion, philosophy, and patronage. We invite our audiences to be part of that epic by offering enhanced concert presentations. Yes, you will hear the music but you will also eat the food, don the garb, dance the dance, talk the talk, walk the walk, and become utterly immersed in the period that gave birth to the notes. Its unique cross-cultural encounters, exciting educational programs and spirit of innovation stamp the Philadelphia Classical Symphony as one of the outstanding chamber orchestras in the United States.
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