Brooklyn Conservatory Orchestra performance Dec 5, 8pm

brooklyn conservatory

The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra
performs
Barber Overture to The School for Scandal
Chausson Poeme, featuring violinist Yuriy Bekker.
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in g minor


Saturday, December 5, 8:00pm
St. Saviour High School
588 6th Street in Park Slope
$15/$8 students & seniors

Brooklyn, NY, December 5, 8pm, the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra, led by music director Dorothy Savitch, will present an exciting program consisting of Samuel Barber's overture to The School for Scandal, Op. 5, which was the composer's first composition for full orchestra, Chausson Poeme, a lush late-nineteenth-century symphonic poem for violin and orchestra, featuring violinist Yuriy Bekker who is the highly acclaimed Concertmaster of the Charleston Symphony, and Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in g minor, a piece commonly perceived tragic in tone and intensely emotional. It has been called “a work of passion, violence, and grief." - Charles Rosen (in The Classical Style). Although interpretations differ, the symphony is unquestionably one of Mozart's most greatly admired works.

Now in its eight year, the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra has generated much enthusiasm with its community involvement, bold programming, and exciting music making. The BCCO often seeks to highlight Brooklyn as a cultural and historical nexus. Past programs have featured a trio of New York composers: Howard Lew, William Schuman, and George Gershwin. Last year the orchestra celebrated another great Brooklyn composer when they perform Copland’s masterpiece Appalachian Spring. The BCCO has also collaborated with clowning troupe The Maestrosites in performances of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Rossini’s Overture to William Tell. The BCCO’s players are a mixture of musical amateurs and professionals living and working in and near Park Slope.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit community schools of the arts in the nation. The Conservatory serves more than 7,000 people each year, of all ages and backgrounds, through free and subsidized music instruction; education and music therapy programs in over 50 schools and community-based organizations; and free and inexpensive concerts. For a concert calendar and brochure about programs and lessons, please call 718-622-3300 or visit the Conservatory’s website at www.bqcm.org.