[BBCB-Mail] Weekly Email

[John Howell]

Here's a reminder, folks, that our sometime partners in crime, the 
Blacksburg Community Strings, have a Fall Concert coming up this 
Sunday evening.  Past and present band members Mary Walters, Kellie 
Keeling, Megan Bradley, Bruce McGarvey, Danny Corneliussen and Dillon 
Meacham will be joining the strings.


The Blacksburg Community Strings and Chamber Orchestra welcome back 
their founding conductor, Elizabeth Austin, as guest soloist on their 
Fall Concert on Sunday, October 29, at 8 p.m. in the Recital Salon of 
Squires Student Center on the Virginia Tech campus.  Austin will be 
playing Joseph Haydn's Concerto for Violoncello in C Major.  A former 
member of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra now living, playing and 
teaching in Clemson, South Carolina, Austin plays a cello made by 
Blacksburg luthier Daniel Foster, who is principal cellist in the 
ensemble.

Also on the program are Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3," Sir 
Edward Elgar's two miniature tone poems, "Chanson de nuit" and 
"Chanson de matin" for chamber orchestra, and two works originally 
composed as tributes.  Edvard Grieg composed his "Holberg Suite" for 
string orchestra for the 200th anniversary of the birth in 1684 of 
Ludwig Baron Holberg, considered the Father of Scandanavian 
Literature, while Tchaikovsky's "Elegie for Strings" was composed in 
the same year for the Jubilee celebration of noted actor and Moscow 
Conservatory drama professor Ivan Samarin's 50 years as an artist, 
and published a few years after Samarin's death with a dedication to 
his memory.

The concert is free and open to the public.  A Preview Concert will 
be given in Newport, Virginia, at the Newport Recreation Center (the 
old high school) at 7:30 the previous evening, Saturday, October 28.

John

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John & Susie Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
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