Upcoming Season for the University Chamber Music Series & NRV Symphony

By Priscilla Beth Baker

September 19, 2008

UNIVERSITY CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

All concerts are held in Squires Recital Salon except for the Nov. 3 concert, which will be held at the Lyric Theater in Blacksburg.

Flute, Cello, and Piano Trios by Haydn, Farrenc and Liebermann

Saturday, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. & Sunday, Sept. 21 at 3 p.m.

Discover Haydn's "inventive elegance", Farrenc "the unsung heroine of French Romanticism", and the "brilliant and charismatic" writing of Liebermann.  With David Jacobsen on flute, Alan Weinstein on cello, and Tracy Cowden on piano.

New Music from Virginia Tech

Saturday, Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. & Sunday, Oct. 19 at 3 p.m.

Virginia Tech celebrates the music of composition faculty Kent Holliday, James Miley, Ico Bukic and other influential contemporary composers.  Virginia Tech music faculty artists and guests will perform.

Opera Roanoke presents Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde

Monday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m.

Featuring mezzo-soprano Nancy Maultsby and tenor Donald George in this song-symphony that explores "life, death, and renewal in the context of nature."

The Kandinsky Trio

Saturday, Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. & Sunday Feb 1. at 3 p.m.

The acclaimed Trio returns to perform Haydn's A-flat major Trio, Schubert's E-flat major Trio and John D'earth's Silent Faustas.

Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat

Saturday March 21 at 8 p.m. & Sunday March 22 at 3 p.m.

The Department of Music with Virginia Tech guest actors Sue Ott Rowlands, Gregory Justice and Michael Anthony Williams presents this Russian folk tale about a "soldier trading his fiddle to the devil for a book predicting the economic future."

Grand Piano Opus 12

Saturday, April 4 at 8 p.m. & Sunday April 5 at 3 p.m.

Mary Louise Hallauer and Teresa Ehrlich perform Rachmaninoff's Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, opus 17, Schubert's Sonata in B-flat Major and Debussy's Six Epigraphes Antiques. 

NEW RIVER VALLEY SYMPHONY SERIES  

James Glazenbrook, Conductor

All concerts are held in Burruss Auditorium

Saturday, Nov. 15 at 8 p.m.

Roanoke Symphony Horn Section

Hector Berlioz | Roman Carnival Overture

Robert Schumann | Concert-piece for Four Horns

Mussorgsky/ Ravel | Pictures at an Exhibition

Saturday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m.

David Feldman, Cello

Richard Wagner | Prelude to Die Meistersinger

Manuel de Falla | Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat

Edward Elgar | Cello Concerto

Saturday, May 2 at 8 p.m.

Paul Hindemith | Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of von Weber

Ludwig van Beethoven | Symphony No. 5

Tickets can be purchased on the first floor of Squires Student Center between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.  Their phone number is: 540-231-5615. 

A full season of all six Chamber Music shows is only $43 for Virginia Tech students with a valid Virginia Tech ID/ Seniors ($5 individual student; $10 seniors).  Virginia Tech faculty/staff/general public tickets are $65 for the season ($15 individual). 

NRV Symphony seasons tickets for all three concerts are $12 for Tech students/ seniors ($5 individual); $20 for VT faculty/ staff/ general ($8 individual).

Full packages including all four Theater Arts productions, University Chamber Music (six concerts) and NRV Symphony (three concerts) are also available.  Contact the ticket office for more information.