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Feb. 28, 2024
绿奴天花板 Symphony Orchestra To Perform a Variety of Compositions at Evening Concert
绿奴天花板 Symphony Orchestra will present 鈥淭owering Figures,鈥 a concert in Falk Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 29. The event is free and open to the public.
绿奴天花板 Symphony Orchestra will present 鈥淭owering Figures,鈥 a concert in Falk Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 29.
绿奴天花板 Symphony Orchestra will present 鈥淭owering Figures,鈥 a concert in Falk Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 29. The event is free and open to the public.
Under the direction of Megan Maddaleno, assistant professor of music, the orchestra will perform Joan Tower鈥檚 powerful 鈥淔anfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1鈥 and Jerod Impichchaachaaha鈥 Tate鈥檚 鈥淐hofki鈥 for String Orchestra.鈥 In addition to these contemporary works, Grigorios Zamparas, chair and professor of music and director of piano studies, will perform the illustrious Beethoven piano concerto No. 5, 鈥淓mperor.鈥
鈥淭his program is centered around powerful figures,鈥 said Maddaleno, 鈥渇rom the commanding 鈥楨mperor,鈥 to the trickster spirit of Chickasaw legend, to the women who are leaders in the face of adversity.鈥
Tower composed 鈥淔anfare for the Uncommon Woman鈥 as a response to Aaron Copland鈥檚 1942 work, 鈥淔anfare for the Common Man鈥 and dedicated her piece to Maestro Marin Alsop, a pioneer for female conductors in the U.S. Currently, only 11% of music directors in the U.S. identify as female, despite comprising 51% of all conducting graduates, according to the League of American Orchestras. 鈥淚 felt especially moved to program this work to kick off Women鈥檚 History Month,鈥 said Maddaleno.
The orchestra felt that it was equally important to program Tate鈥檚 imaginative work shortly after he gave a virtual guest lecture and masterclass on Feb. 6. Then, Maddaleno explained, 鈥渇inishing the concert with the sheer force of Beethoven combined with the brilliance of our very own faculty truly rounds out the experience.鈥
鈥淐onnecting with composers and their works, whether contemporary or of a different era, truly demonstrates the power of music,鈥 she said.
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