Symphony Orchestra Announces Fall Concert

On Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m.

The Andrews University Symphony Orchestra’s fall concert will take place on Thursday, Nov. 7. (Photo by Lydia Ruckle)

The Andrews University Symphony Orchestra will be presenting its fall concert, titled “Festive Memories,” on Thursday, Nov. 7, in the Howard Performing Arts Center. Conductor Marc Élysée will be leading the student musicians of the symphony orchestra in what promises to be “an unforgettable evening of music.” The program is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be separated into two parts by a fifteen-minute intermission.

The first half of the concert will feature the composition work of German composers Johannes Brahms and Moritz Moszkowski. The selected pieces will be Brahm’s “Hungarian Dance No. 1” and Moszkowski’s “Piano Concerto No. 2,” with senior music performance student Aiko Ayala as the featured piano soloist. The second half of the concert will be directed by graduate conducting student Earlon Cornwall. He will lead the Andrews symphony orchestra in “Jupiter from the Planets” by English composer Gustav Holst and “Scenes of Jamaica” by accomplished Jamaican composer and Seventh-day Adventist Andrew Marshall.

Tickets can be acquired online at howard.alexblog.net. Tickets for general admission are $7, tickets for senior citizens and students are $5 (each student ID purchase is limited to two tickets), and for children less than five years old, ticket costs are initially free. Attendees can choose to receive an e-ticket or printable copy from the Howard Performing Arts Center box office.

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