OCTOBER 2013
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James Ross, music director Evelyn Elsing, cello
A Farewell to Art
Michael Votta, music director
Sunday, October 13, 2013 . 4PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
Foreign Bodies
Friday, October 11, 2013 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
e UMD Symphony Orchestra’s opening concert of the season features faculty artist Evelyn Elsing performing Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto. is piece has been a long and enthusiastically awaited collaboration for Elsing and James Ross who are friends and colleagues. Ross says, “I can imagine no richer way to celebrate Evy’s decades of fabulous teaching and musicianship at Maryland than with this introspective masterpiece!” e beloved Ms. Elsing will be retiring from the School of Music faculty in 2014. e program is rounded out with Berlioz’s Corsair Overture, op. 21, Wagner’s “Prelude and Love Death” from Tristan and Isolde and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s orchestral tour-de-force Foreign Bodies from 2001.
Evelyn Elsing has been a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland since 1974 and is the first recipient of the Barbara K. Steppel Memorial Faculty Fellowship in Cello in the School of Music.
e UMD Wind Orchestra opens its season with a program that includes Stanislaw Skrowaczyewski’s Music for Winds, as well as works by Webern, Lampe and Ruggles that exemplify the high-art ideals and modernist style embodied in Skrowaczyewski’s work. Music for Winds is a symphony without strings. e composer says, “e listener may find the character or tone of the piece to be sad, mysterious or even tragic. is could be my own reaction to the state of our world, in which great art is slowly disappearing and being replaced by superficial ‘semi-culture.’” e program will also include Webern’s Concerto, op. 24, Lampe’s Serenade and Ruggles’ Angels. UMD Symphony Orchestra photo by Alison Harbaugh; Evelyn Elsing; UMD Wind Orchestra photo by Stan Barouh
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