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Appalachian Spring

Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College 204 Henry Street, Ashland, VA, United States

Two beloved favorites inspired by folk music – Vaughan Williams haunting Fantasia on Greensleeves and Aaron Copland’s tender Appalachian Spring – cradle and console the 1940 Clarinet Concerto by the 19-year-old Ruth Gipps, composed as her fiancé, and all of the Empire, departed for war.

Haydn’s Drum Roll

Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College 204 Henry Street, Ashland, VA, United States

The Symphony existed before Franz Josef Haydn, but it was he who formed how we experience it.  He composed an astonishing 104 Symphonies, with the “Drum Roll” one of his final masterworks in the form.  The Orchestra’s Jeannette Jang plays Haydn’s joyful Violin Concerto in C. This Haydn pairing bookends the energized Zoom! of Shawn Okpebholo, one […]