Orchestra to present concert featuring works by Edward Elgar
The Skidmore College Orchestra will perform Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March, Op. 39 and Enigma Variations as well as Martin's Ballade for Flute and Orchestra in concert at 8 p.m. Friday, March 2.
The concert will take place in the Arthur Zankel Music Center, Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall. Admission is $7 adults, and $5 seniors. For advance reservations click here or call the Zankel box office (518) 580-8381 for more information. The Zankel Music Center is wheelchair accessible and offers listening devices for the hearing impaired. For more information, please click here.
The concert will include two of the most widely performed works of Edward Elgar, a British composer who wrote some of the most popular works in the English repertoire. His well-known piece Pomp and Circumstance is made up of five marches and named after a speech in Shakespeare's Othello. Elgar's Enigma Variations came out of an improvisation that became focused on the identity of his friends pictured within the music.
Frank Martin was born in Geneva and received encouragement from the great conductor Ernest Ansermet but was primarily self-taught as a composer. During World War II, Martin produced the Ballade for Flute and Orchestra, which is considered one of his remarkable works. The piece will feature Rebecca Conneely '12, Concerto Competition Winner, as soloist. The Concerto Competition is an annual audition open to Skidmore students currently in the orchestra or enrolled in applied music lessons.
Anthony Holland conducts the Skidmore Orchestra, a semi-professional orchestra made up of Skidmore students and top players from several regional professional orchestras, including the Albany Symphony, Berkshire Symphony, Schenectady Symphony and Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra. This combination of professional and student players creates an exciting synergy and concert atmosphere for players and audience members alike.
