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The Concord Orchestra presents "Resolve"
Concord Orchestra welcomes Music Director Zeke Fetrow back for a second season. Equally at home in front of the orchestra, in the opera pit, or working with a chorus, Zeke’s versatile leadership and innovative programming are already making waves throughout the performing arts landscape. The orchestra, conducted by Zeke Fetrow, performs a program of Johannes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Samuel Barber's Music for a Scene from Shelley, Claude Debussy's Petite Suite, and and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 2. A pre-concert talk is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Admission is free for youth under 18.
There is no soloist performing at this concert, so the focus is on the 60-70 dedicated volunteer musicians of the orchestra. The musician in the photo is Megan Striplin, a Concord resident, and a member of our cello section.
Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture was composed when he was granted an honorary degree from the University of Breslau in Prussia. It is a wonderfully crafted overture with an element of humor, including melodies from student drinking songs.
The mysterious and dramatic tone poem Music for a Scene from Shelley by Samuel Barber, was first performed in 1935. It was inspired by a short passage from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.
Debussy’s Petite Suite was originally composed for piano four-hands, and arranged for orchestra by Henri Büsser. The delightful, short character pieces in the suite are entitled En Bateau (Sailing), Cortege (Procession), Menuet, and Ballet.
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