Details:
Greenville Symphony Orchestra will present the third and final concert of the 75th anniversary season in the Artists Up Close series on Friday, May 5 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, May 7 at 3:00 pm. The performances will take place at Greenville’s Fine Arts Center. Lisa Kiser, Greenville Symphony Principal Keyboard, and Anneka Zuehlke-King, Greenville Symphony Principal Horn, join the principal strings and woodwinds of the orchestra for the program.
The music for the program was selected as a narrative on the theme of courage. It includes South Carolina composer Jon Jeffrey Grier’s 2009 work for a piano quintet which is entitled Overcoming, a rhapsody on “We Shall Overcome,” as well as Shostakovich, Messaien, Ravel, Joe Hisaishi, and Meira Warshauer.
Musicians:
Caroline Ulrich, Flute
Virginia Metzger, Oboe
John Sadak, Clarinet
Allen Jiang, Bassoon
Anneka Zuehlke-King, Horn
Lisa Kiser, Piano
Mary Lee Kinosian, Violin
Joanna Mulfinger, Violin
Martha Gardner, Violin
Kathryn Dey, Viola
Seth Russell, Cello
Timothy Easter, Double Bass
Program:
Joe Hisaishi (b. 1950)
Merry-Go-Round of Life
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), arr. Mason Jones
Le Tombeau de Couperin
I. Prélude
II. Fugue
III. Menuet
IV. Rigaudon
Joe Hisaishi
String Quartet in G Minor
Jon Jeffrey Grier (b.1953)
Overcoming
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Allegretto from Piano Trio No. 2
Meira Warshauer (b.1949)
Yiddish Fantasy for Piano and String Quartet
