Masterworks: Rhapsody in Blue

By Kelly Swindell | July 5, 2024

Celebrating the centennial of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, pianist Jeffrey Biegel and composer Peter Boyer launched the Rhapsody National Initiative with Rhapsody in Red, White, & Blue, a vibrant new work reflecting the American landscape, with the pulse, energy, and beauty of our shared identity as Americans. Western Piedmont Symphony is the only orchestra in North Carolina represented in this national symphonic project. Also on the program is the celebrated masterpiece Rhapsody in Blue, the lyrical and vivid Symphony No. 1 by living composer Adolphus Hailstork, and the mesmerizing Bolero by Ravel.

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Masterworks: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

By Kelly Swindell | July 5, 2024
a white male in all black clothes holding a violin, wearing glasses in fron t of greay textured wall and a white man balding in dark cuit playing a cello and looking up to the right corner

A program of classical music’s “The Three Bs” – a Baroque power play of three on three, Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, the doubly demanding Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello featuring Misha Keylin, violin, and WPS principal cellist Samuel Magill, and the unforgettable first four notes tell you it’s Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

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WPS Auditions: Second Clarinet

By Kelly Swindell | July 5, 2024
three white male musicians in tuxedos playing clarinet instruments in an orchestra

Western Piedmont Symphony announces auditions on Sunday, August 25, 2024, for the following vacancies: SECOND CLARINET   Audition date: Sunday, August 25, 2024 Application deadline: Friday, August 16, 2024 How…

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