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  • November 07

    7:30 PM

    Event Categories: Music,U Arts Pass
    Campus Locations: Libby Gardner Concert Hall (DGH)
    Cost: General Admission: $10, Seniors & Students: $5
    Ticket URL: Name: School of Music
    Contact Phone: 8015816762
    Contact Email: events@music.utah.edu
    Campus Wide Event: Yes
    Link: music.utah.edu

    Please note – the time of this concert is subject to change. The U of U vs. BYU football game may impact our concert time. Please be prepared to switch to a matinee at 2:00 pm should it be necessary. We will announce the concert time on our website and Facebook page. We will communicate with patrons via the email used to purchase tickets. 

    If you ask our music director who his favorite composers are, he’ll likely hem and haw and be non-committal. But our November concert certainly include three of his top five favorites. Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides (Fingals Cave) is perhaps the finest example of a Romantic-era work depicting landscape. One can hear the waves, sea spray, and even imagine the basalt rock columns that reminded the composer of a pipe organ. Baritone James Bobick joins us to sing Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer. These four orchestral songs stand on their own merit, but audiences may also hear that the melodies and orchestrations were source material for Mahler’s early symphonies. We end with a major staple of the symphonic repertoire, Sibelius’s grand and eloquent Symphony No. 2. The finale of the symphony was popular with the Finnish people as it was connected with the struggle for Finnish Independence, so much so that it was dubbed the “Symphony of Independence”. Written immediately after his popular Finlandia, Sibelius said of the work, “My second symphony is a confession of the soul.” 
    Program:

    • Felix Mendelssohn: Fingal’s Cave Overture (The Hebrides)
    • Gustav Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer, James Bobick, baritone
    • Jean Sibelius: Symphony no. 2 in D Major, op. 43

    • 2 hr
    Symphony Orchestra Organ Baritone
  • November 11

    7:30 PM

    Event Categories: Music
    Campus Locations: Libby Gardner Concert Hall (DGH)
    Cost: Adult - $13.50; U Arts Pass Event: U of U Students - Free w/current ID; Youth - Free
    Ticket URL: Name: School of Music
    Contact Phone: 8015816762
    Contact Email: events@music.utah.edu
    Campus Wide Event: Yes
    Link: music.utah.edu

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    The annual fall concert of the campus-wide orchestra. Music by Mozart, W.G. Still and more.

    • 2 hr
    Symphony Orchestra