The Southern Tier Symphony, regarded as “one of the treasures of our region,” will perform next week at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford as part of the university’s annual Spectrum Series.
The pops concert, titled “Music Tells a Story,” will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 7, in Bromeley Family Theater in Blaisdell Hall. Tickets are $20 for the public and free for Pitt-Bradford students, and are available on the day of the performance at the Bromeley Family Theater.
Musical selections include “The Thrill of the Orchestra” by Russell Peck, “Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham” by Robert Kapilow and “Peter and the Wolf” by Serge Prokofiev.
Peck’s “The Thrill of the Orchestra” is an illustration of the various instruments and how they are played. The piece will be narrated by Father Greg Dobson, parish priest of St. Mary of the Angels Church, Olean.
“Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham” was hailed by Denise Bolger Kovnat of the Rochester Review as, “colorful…quoting everything from ‘Heart and Soul’ to Chopin’s Funeral March, with some jazz and rap music heard in between.” Guest singers for this selection are Cristen Gregory and Marina Laurendi.
The final selection, Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” relates the tale of a boy named Peter, who captures a wolf after watching it stalk a bird and cat and consume an unfortunate duck. Prokofiev associates specific instruments and musical themes with each character in the story: A violin represents Peter, French horns, the wolf, etc. This piece will be narrated by Dr. Ben King, dean of Greatbatch School of Music, Houghton College.
Now in its seventh season, the Olean-based group is under the direction of John Whitney.
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Additional information is available by visiting www.southerntiersymphony.org.
