"Variations for Spring"
April 2 and 3
Say goodbye to winter with one of the best-known pieces of American classical music, Aaron Copland's Suite from Appalachian Spring (featuring the Shaker song "Simple Gifts").
Folk songs form the basis of two more works on this picturesque program, both by British composers: George Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus.' The orchestra will also perform a newly commissioned piece by noted composer and Yale faculty member Christopher Theofanidis.
Get your tickets now before the best seats are gone!
Program
BUTTERWORTH The Banks of Green Willow
THEOFANIDIS Dreamtime Ancestors *Virginia Premiere*
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'
COPLAND Suite from Appalachian Spring
When & Where
Saturday, April 2 at 8pm, Old Cabell Hall
Sunday, April 3 at 3:30pm, Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center
The April 2 concert is sponsored by McGuireWoods LLP.
The orchestra's performance of the Suite from "Appalachian Spring" is underwritten by the Gerald Rozan Family.
Dreamtime Ancestors has been commissioned by 42 U.S. orchestras - including the Charlottesville Symphony - and New Music USA.
The 2015-16 season is made possible in part by major gifts from Frances Massey Dulaney and the Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.
On the Trail Again...
The Symphony Heads to Old Trail on March 15
On Tuesday, March 15 from 7:00 – 8:30pm, the Charlottesville Symphony Society invites Old Trail and greater Crozet residents to a free informal gathering with live music! Enjoy drinks and dessert, meet musicians from the orchestra and hear a short performance up close. Concertmaster Daniel Sender, Principal Cello Adam Carter and Principal Oboe Aaron Hill hope you will ask them questions about their careers, their instruments and the music they love.
Please RSVP to Brian Simalchik at (434) 924-3139 or bs5zy@virginia.edu by Wednesday, March 9.
When & Where
Tuesday, March 15 from 7:00 – 8:30pm
Restoration Hall at the Old Trail Golf Club
5494 Golf Drive, Crozet, VA 22932
Directions
From 250: From Charlottesville, follow 250 east for 15 miles. Turn right onto Old Trail Drive (across from Western Albemarle High School) and follow the signs for Old Trail Golf Club.
From I-64: Take Exit 107 (Crozet Exit) to 250 east. Follow 250 for 1 mile, make a left onto Old Trail Drive and follow the signs for Old Trail Golf Club.
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