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The Brigham Young University-Idaho Symphony
Orchestra will be joined by the Lyceum Chamber Ensemble from
Pleasant Grove, Utah, in presenting a one-time-only matinee
performance of the ever-popular New World Symphony by Antonin
Dvorak. This performance will take place on Thursday, December
1, 2005 from 2 to 2:45 p.m. in the Barrus Concert Hall in the
Snow Center for the Performing Arts. Dress is casual and no
tickets are required.
The 90-piece Symphony Orchestra last presented this most popular
and well-known symphony several years ago to a sold-out audience
on a regular evening concert program. In response to frequent
requests to re-program this work, and to provide a
“side-by-side” performance experience with the outstanding young
musicians of the Lyceum Chamber Ensemble, this special afternoon
performance has been scheduled for the campus at large.
According to Kevin Call, director of the Symphony Orchestra, who
will be conducting this performance, the concert was scheduled
at this time primarily “to provide members of our campus
community the opportunity to take a 45-minute break from their
busy, daily schedules, and come and enjoy some of the greatest
music ever written in a rather informal setting.”
In addition to preparing for this performance, members of the
Symphony Orchestra are rotating in playing for performances of
Savior of the World, currently being presented on the BYU-Idaho
campus.
The Lyceum Chamber Ensemble is an elite group of superb young
musicians, ages 11-17, and one of five orchestras from the
entire nation selected to perform at the American String
Teachers National Conference in Reno, Nevada last spring. They
have performed "side by side" concerts with the Utah Symphony,
with the University of Utah Chamber Orchestra, and next year,
with the Utah Valley Symphony. They have also performed in the
Temple Square Concert Series, and each season they perform a
Concerto Night, Messiah, and in the Youth Symphony Festival at
Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah. |