Posts Tagged ‘Masterworks’
Community Conversation: Pioneering Women Composers – Dame Ethel Smyth, Women’s Suffrage, and Musical Identity
Community Conversation: Pioneering Women Composers – Dame Ethel Smyth, Women’s Suffrage, and Musical Identity
Read MoreSchaefer Center for the Performing Arts Presents: Western Piedmont Symphony – Carmina Burana
Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts at Appalachian State University presents the Western Piedmont Symphony: Carmina Burana. The professional orchestra of the western foothills of North Carolina led by Maestro Matthew Troy presents the epic choral masterpiece.
Read MoreWestern Piedmont Symphony Announces 2023-2024 Season
HICKORY, N.C. (June 20, 2023) – Western Piedmont Symphony (WPS), the professional orchestra of the western foothills of North Carolina, announces its 2023-2024 season, MUSIC FOR YOU. The 59th season…
Read MoreMasterworks: Symphonie Fantastique
Acclaimed violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins returns to perform Bruch’s Concerto No. 1 for Violin in G minor.
Read MoreMasterworks: Other Worlds
Experience music like no other with the Silk Road Ensemble’s Wu Man, the world’s foremost pipa artist, performing the cinematic Concerto No. 2 for Pipa and Orchestra by Jiping Zhao. Also featured on the opening Masterworks program: Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Suite and the triumphant Pines of Rome by Respighi.
Read MoreCommunity Conversation – Welcoming the Stranger
Western Piedmont Symphony and Catawba Valley Interfaith Council invite the community for a conversation about music, storytelling, and the immigrant experience.
Read MoreMasterworks: The New Colossus
Tickets on sale August 15, 2022. The 22-23 Masterworks season closes with a multi-media storytelling concert experience. Nkeiru Okoye’s personal response to 9/11, Voices Shouting Out, opens the concert. Acclaimed violinist Kinga Augustyn will perform the Korngold Concerto for Violin. The evening culminates with Peter Boyer’s visual telling of the immigrant experience, Ellis Island: the Dream of America.
Read MoreWESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY PRESENTS MASTERWORKS – MIGHTY MAHLER
HICKORY, N.C. (February 28, 2023) – Western Piedmont Symphony (WPS), the professional orchestra of the western foothills of North Carolina, presents MASTERWORKS: MIGHTY MAHLER featuring Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and…
Read MoreFREE EVENT: SOUNDSCAPES with BRITTON-RENE COLLINS
Join award-winning percussionist Britton-René Collins on a sound exploration through contemporary and multidimensional percussion works. This program embraces contrast, variety, and the magical sound possibilities of percussion.
Read MoreMasterworks: Orchestral Blockbusters
Maestro Matthew Troy leads the Western Piedmont Symphony in an evening of classical favorites old and new. Program includes works by Quinn Mason, Bizet, and Beethoven.
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