Sunday, November 16
2:00 p.m.
Clarke Chapel
Mighty Winds |
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For the past several years, Lycoming College and
the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra have presented Close-Up
Concerts, an annual series of chamber music concerts in Clarke
Chapel. The series has generated thousands of dollars for the WSO
and it has brought some excellent music to the campus. This Sunday, 16 November at 2 PM, the 2003-4 series opens with MIGHTY WINDS, a concert featuring the wind section of the WSO conducted by Lycoming's own Chris Woodruff. The program begins with the Stravinsky Octet, an amazing work from the early 20s that Stravinsky heard in a dream before putting it down on paper. All eight performers and the conductor must be of virtuoso calibre to pull this off--and they are! The Mozart Quintet for piano and winds follows (I get to perform in that one) and the concert concludes with the beautiful Petite Sinfonie by Charles Gounod--the composer of the opera Faust and the droll little bassoon piece that began Alfred Hitchcock's television series (some of you will remember that) entitled "the Funeral March of a Marionette." The concert is free for Lycoming students, faculty, and staff. It's great music and it will be excellently performed. Tickets for the public $10.
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