Messiah University Symphony Orchestra
- Date: March 5th, 2021
- Location: Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts, Parmer Hall
- Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
- Cost: Free
Timothy Dixon, conductor
Open to on campus faculty, staff and students only. Must show Messiah ID for entrance. Must wear face mask and social distance at all times. This event will be live-streamed.
The Messiah University Symphony Orchestra will begin their their concert with Mozart’s Serenata Notturna - a serenade for strings and timpani - featuring student soloists Emily Remp, Evie Miller, Clara Yu, and Vanessa Skidmore. Following that will be the Symphony No. 2 by Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. A contemporary of Mozart, Bologne is known best as the first composer of classical musical of African ancestry. The son of a French nobleman and an enslaved woman of Senegalese origin from modern day Haiti, Bologne was a violin virtuoso, conductor, and a musical entrepreneur. He was also a champion fencer who fought in the Haitian revolution. The second symphony consists of music written for his opera - L'Amant Anonyme. The program will conclude with the Mussorgsky masterwork- Pictures at an Exhibition as orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. The work depicts in tones a series of paintings and sketches of the composer’s deceased friend, Viktor Hartmann.
*Event details subject to change. Please see arts.messiah.edu for updates.
