Symphony
Symphony Winter Concert: Student Soloist Showcase
Sunday, March 16, 2014
3 p.m. Harman Hall, Performing Arts Center
The Cal Poly Symphony’s Winter Concert will showcase the talents of student soloists and the group’s versatility.
The Student Soloist Showcase will feature performances by winners of the Music Department’s Solo Competition.
Four soloists will perform diverse repertoire from four different musical traditions:
- Music major Brett Malta will play Gordon Jacob’s Trombone Concerto, first movement.
- Economics major Kelsey Beisecker will play Carl Reinecke's Flute Concerto in D Major, third movement.
- Music major Taylor Safina will sing Antonín Dvo?ák's "Song to the Moon" from his opera "Rusalka."
- Computer science major Douglas Gallatin will play Otar Gordeli’s Concertino, Op. 8, for flute and orchestra.
Music Department faculty member David Arrivée will conduct the program, which will also feature two works by American composers: Samuel Barber's Essay No. 1 for orchestra and Leonard Bernstein's "Symphonic Dances from West Side Story," described by Arrivée as “A virtuosic, jazz inspired romp that blurred the stylistic boundaries of orchestral music in the middle of the 20th century.”
Tickets ($14 and $12 general, $12 and $9 seniors and students)
Symphony Spring Concert with the Cal Poly Choirs
Saturday, June 7, 2014
8 p.m. Harman Hall, Performing Arts Center
Cal Poly's symphony and choirs join forces to explore the intersection of music and destiny. Composers throughout the ages have given voice to — and struggled with — the idea of human destiny:
- Tchaikovsky - "Romeo and Julie"t overture-fantasy
- Williams - "Star Wars," suite for orchestra
- Williams - 'Battle of the Heroes,' from "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"
- Brahms - "Schicksalslied" (Song of Destiny)
Thomas Davies and David Arrivée, conductors.
Tickets ($14 and $12 general, $12 and $9 seniors and students)