KSC Chamber Orchestra Celebrates American Composers
From Connie Lester, Redfern: The Keene State College Chamber Orchestra, conducted by KSC artist-in-residence Don Baldini, will perform a Celebration of American Composers on Friday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Redfern Arts Center.
In honor of Keene State’s Centennial Celebration, Aaron Copeland’s film score for Our Town, a piece with strong ties to the Monadnock Region, will be performed. Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town about a fictional town, Grover’s Corners, as a result of spending nine summers at Peterborough’s MacDowell Colony in the 1920s. The orchestra will also play “Fanfare for the Common Man,” Copeland’s musical tribute honoring those engaged in World War II. Also among the favorites being performed are John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes,” Leroy Anderson’s “The Syncopated Clock,” Richard Rogers’ “Victory at Sea,” Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, and Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” from the opera A Little Night Music.
The KSC Chamber Orchestra is comprised primarily of KSC students and includes some community members. Tickets are available through the box office at 8-2168 or online.
