PRESS RELEASE
from the
Orchestra of
For Immediate Release Contact: Marlo Ihler
867-8501
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue to grace concert
The Orchestra of Southern Utah invites
you to their upcoming performance,
“A Fall Concert: Beloved American Composers,” sponsored by Southern Utah
Federal Credit Union and Utah Public Radio.
It will be on
This will be an evening full of beloved music by the popular American composers George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Samuel Barber. “This music has flourished and attracted audiences for decades,” says Xun Sun, music director and conductor. “It is moving, emotional, and entertaining.”
Music includes Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, a favorite of audiences everywhere, with soloist Hannah Sun as the guest pianist. Hannah was recently awarded First Prize in the New York Piano Competition. She is a student at the Manhattan School of Music where, at age sixteen, she attends on full scholarship. She has also studied at the Australian National Academy of Music and performed as a soloist with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. Conductor Richard Auldon Clark said of Hannah, “[she] is already a tremendous artist... and will be a dynamic force in the music world."
Other music
on the program includes Copland’s Fanfare
for the Common Man, a musical tribute to those who served in World War II
and features OSU’s expanded brass section;
Appalachian Spring Suite, a ballet commissioned by choreographer and dancer
Martha Graham in 1944; and the
rousing favorite “Hoe-Down” from another of Copland’s ballets, Rodeo.
Audience members will recognize this as the music used by the National
Cattlemen’s Beef Association for their
Also
featured will be Barber’s mournful anthem Adagio
for Strings, made famous in the films Platoon and The
Elephant
In an
attempt to share music with patrons of all ages, audience members are
encouraged to contact OSU’s Executive Director, Pete Akins, at 590-4266 if they
would like to bring children ages
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for
students and children, and $30 for a group of six, and are available at the
Low-income Iron County senior citizens can get free tickets at the Cedar City Senior Citizen Center, 489 E. 200 S., made possible through a grant from Iron County United Way.
For more information call 867-8501 or visit www.orchestraofsouthernutah.org.