May 7, 2023 | 3:00PM
Mandel Hall
The University Symphony Orchestra’s spring concerts will showcase the extraordinary musical talent of the student musicians involved in our Department of Music Performance Program. For the first half of the program, the USO will perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s final masterpiece, the exuberant Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, written in 1937–1940 while the composer was living in the United States. The second half of the program will feature 2023 Concerto Competition Winner Samantha Ma performing the third movement of Antonín Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, Op. 53. To cap the program, the University Chorus (Mollie Stone, director) and Motet Choir (James Kallembach, director) will join the USO to present Johannes Brahms’ Schicksalslied (“Song of Destiny”) plus the celebratory final movement from Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, the stirring Antiphon.
A performance of this program also occurs on Saturday, May 6, at 8 p.m. in Mandel Hall.
Free Admission.
Donations requested at the door: $10 general, $5 students/children
The May 6 concert will be livestreamed on our website and on our YouTube channel.