Southwest Baptist
University News Release
Contact:
Charlotte Marsch, Director of Marketing and Communications
(417)
328-1803 / cmarsch@sbuniv.edu
SBU Chamber
Orchestra’s spring concert is April 18
BOLIVAR, Mo. — Southwest Baptist University’s Chamber Orchestra, with Dr.
Brian K. Hopwood as conductor, will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 18, in the Meyer Recital Hall, Casebolt Music Building, on the SBU campus.
The
concert opens with the third movement of Antonio Vivaldi’s “Violin Concerto in E major,” Op. 8, No. 1, RV
269, “La primavera” (Spring) for string orchestra. The first of
Vivaldi’s four concertos from “The Four Seasons” will feature senior and
concertmistress Molly Morgan as the violin soloist.
In
stark contrast, “Danza,” a three-movement work written in 1971 contains some of
the same compositional techniques as Vivaldi but in a contemporary setting.
“Czech
composer Vaclav Nelhybel’s affinity for Renaissance and Baroque period music is
evident in the use of modal melodies, parallel intervals in conjunct motion and
fugal techniques, including imitative entries, stretto and augmentation,”
Hopwood said.
Robert
Washburn’s “Suite for Strings,” written in a “conservative” contemporary idiom, will follow. His first published work (1960) was composed
while Washburn was composer-in-residence in Elkhart, Ind., under a year-long
grant from the Ford Foundation, administered by the Music Educators National
Conference, which placed 12 young composers in schools with outstanding music
programs for the purpose of writing music for their students and the community.
The
program also includes the “Sentimental Saraband” and “Frolicsome Finale” from “Simple
Symphony” in celebration of composer Benjamin Britten’s 100th
birthday and the Ralph Vaughan Williams inspired “Preludio” by Paul Whear,
written for the Vivaldi Orchestra in Manchester, England.
For more information, please call Brian K. Hopwood, Department of
Music, at (417) 328-1647 or e-mail him at bhopwood@sbuniv.edu.
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