My Weaving Olden Dances: Concerto for Chamber Orchestra will be given its North Carolina Premiere performance by the Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, Music Director and Conductor, on Saturday, April 9 – 8 PM at P.E. Monroe Auditorium on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University, 625 7th Avenue NE in Hickory, North Carolina. Other works on this Masterworks V program will be Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, with soloist Stefani Collins and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.
Weaving Olden Dances was commissioned by a consortium consisting of the Westchester Chamber Orchestra (NY), Barry Charles Hoffman, Director, Western Piedmont Symphony (NC), John Gordon Ross, Director, San José Chamber Orchestra (CA), Barbara Day Turner, Director and Appalachian State University Orchestra (NC), James Allen Anderson, Director. The four-movement version was premiered in May 2008 by Barry Hoffman and the Westchester Chamber Orchestra at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. Much more about the piece, including sample pages of the score, at https://charlesgriffin.net/archives/204.
Tickets for the April 9 concert are $15, $30 and $40, and can be ordered online here. For more information, call the Symphony 828-324-8603.