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The
BYU-Idaho Symphony Orchestra will perform Dvorak’s “New World
Symphony” and Beethoven’s “Romanze”
Saturday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m.
in the Barrus Concert Hall of the Snow
Center for the Performing Arts.
Tickets
are $5 for the general public and $1 for current BYU-Idaho students. They
may be purchased by calling the BYU-Idaho Ticket Office at 496-2300 or
online at www.byui.edu/tickets.
The
85-member orchestra will be under the direction of Kendell Nielsen,
associate conductor of the Symphony Orchestra.
The
symphony was written in 1893 after Dvorak visited the United
States from his homeland of Bohemia
(Czechoslovakia).
It features melodies influenced by Native American music as well as early
black spirituals.
“This
is a very familiar symphony that nearly everyone will recognize. It’s
a fabulous piece of music and is just a wonderful experience in its
entirety,” Nielsen says.
Violinist
Ted Ashton of the BYU-Idaho Music Department will be featured as a soloist
in “Romanze,” a piece Nielsen says is
“very poignant and touching.”
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