Imagine listening to the symphonic stylings while sharing your experience on Twitter in real time, this is possible with the “tweet seats” offered at the UW Symphony’s concert events.
This evening starting at 7:30 p.m. UW Symphony’s “Season of Joy” continues with “Bach by Any Other Name.”
The concert will take place at UW’s Buchanan Center Concert Hall.
The concert will feature Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony. It’s a work Mendelssohn wrote especially for the 1830 anniversary of Martin Luther’s founding of Protestantism.
James Allen Anderson will be the guest conductor for the night.
“The audience will hear music, purpose-driven music, how music is handed off from one person to another,” Anderson said. “It makes a really powerful performance. It is a different listening experience collectively. Maslanka which also has a sense of spirituality in it is very much related to the same essence you find it Mozart. There is a deep profoundness that the audience can experience and be a part of.”
Anderson has served as Music Director of the Butte Symphony Association and Director of Orchestral Activities at Appalachian State University and the University of Montana. He has held posts with the Eastman Opera Theatre, Triangle Opera (NC), Theater on the Ridge (NY), and the Pauper Players Theatre Company (NC). He is also a trained conductor and pianist, who studies under both maestros David Effron and Tonu Kalam and with pianists Michael Zenge and Francis Whang.
Opening the concert will be David Maslanka’s “11:11.” Exciting and modern sounding, “11:11” swells out of the simple hymn settings into a wildly chaotic ride. It is based on Bach melodies. Maslanka uses materials from three different Bach chorales in this piece.
Much of the material for the night is based on Luther’s greatest hymn, “A Mighty Fortress is our God”. The Bach’s setting is quoted and then elaborated upon, returning in triumphal fashion.
“I find it interesting when you organize music in an unchronological manner,” Director of Orchestral Activities Michael Griffith said. “You start with a modern piece and you go back a couple of hundred years. You hear the modern one first and then to strip down to the essence for earlier music. People will hear Mozart in a very different way, having only heard modern music, then what came before. I think you can expect brilliance from the show.”
For the solo piece of the night, the orchestra will offer Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola. Here you will also witness two UW faculty soloists, Sherry Sinift on the violin, and James Przygocki on the viola.
Sinift and Przygocki run the UW String Project and the String Academy of Wyoming and are teachers here at the university.
Sinift gives private violin lessons and in the summer. She also serves on the faculty of the Indiana University Summer String Academy. Przygocki teaches viola, violin and music education and pedagogy courses and conducts the UW Chamber Orchestra. He also spends his summer as a faculty member in the Indiana University Summer String Academy and the Rocky Ridge Music Center in Estes Park, Colorado.
Tickets are available in person at the Buchanan Center and UW Union box offices, and at www.uwyo.edu/finearts.
