TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR NOVEMBER 17 ORCHESTRA CONCERT IN SHEPHERDSTOWN

TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR NOVEMBER 17 ORCHESTRA CONCERT IN SHEPHERDSTOWN

The Friends of Music will celebrate the tenth anniversary of their Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra with a concert in Shepherdstown on
Saturday, November 17. The concert will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church at 7:30 p.m.

Entitled “Nostalgia and Longing,” it will feature four works: “Salut d’amour,” by Edward Elgar; Mozart’s Overture to “Don Giovanni”; a guitar concerto entitled “Concierto de Arsanjuez,” by Joaquin Rodrigo; and Bizet’s Symphony in C.

To help celebrate the anniversary occasion, Dr. Mark McCoy, the former head of Shepherd University’s Music Department and the Orchestra’s founding music director, is returning to guest conduct the Mozart overture. Dr. McCoy is now the President of DePauw University in Indiana.

The Orchestra’s current music director, Jed Gaylin, will conduct the rest of the concert program. Gaylin said “We are delighted to bring Mark back in his capacity as conductor. The Friends of Music are extraordinarily grateful to him. It is no exaggeration to say without his vision, dedication, and artistry neither the Friends nor Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra would be here to enliven the region with stirring musical performance and education.”

Guitarist Max Zuckerman will be the featured artist for the Rodrigo concerto. Trained at the Yale University School of Music and the Peabody Institute, Zuckerman is currently professor of guitar at Fordham University in New York. He has performed throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Gaylin said the concert overall will offer “an effervescent program that will give listeners exquisite color and also high energy. From the soulful Rodrigo to the frolicsome Bizet, the program is irresistible.”

Admission to the concert will be free for Friends of Music members. The ticket price for others will be $30 per person ($27.50 before November 4). Tickets can be purchased on the Friends’ website at www.friendswv.org; or by mail (FOM, PO Box 220, Shepherdstown, WV 25443); or, if space is available, at the church the evening of the performance. Visa and Master Card will be accepted.
This year’s Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra Concerts are being supported by a grant from the WV Division of Culture and History and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the WV Commission on the Arts.

Full information about the Friends, the Orchestra, and the concert season is available at www.friendswv.org.