WCU orchestra to present new and traditional works Feb. 21
The Artist-in-Residence Orchestra will raise scholarship funds with a Feb. 21 performance at Western Carolina University.
The Artist-in-Residence Orchestra will perform a concert of symphonic works at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21, in the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.
Bruce H. Frazier will conduct the ensemble. Admission cost is $5 for students and $10 for all others. Proceeds will go toward scholarships for WCU music majors.
The program selections will include:
- “Trumpet Concerto” in E-flat major by Franz Joseph Haydn, featuring the solo trumpet work of WCU faculty member Brad Ulrich
- “Classical Symphony” No. 1 in D major by Sergei Prokofiev
- “Siegfried Idyll” by Richard Wagner
- “Overture: Music for a Romantic Comedy” by Frazier, originally composed for a 2009 WCU theater production of “Almost, Maine”
Frazier holds the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professorship in Commercial and Electronic Music at WCU. He has worked in the motion picture and television industries, has earned several Emmy Award nominations and has conducted for artists including Loretta Lynn, Ronnie Milsap, Mac Davis and Dolly Parton.
The Artist-in-Residence Orchestra is a select group that features School of Music instrumental students. The ensemble combines with strings from the Asheville Symphony and performs traditional orchestral repertoire from the 18th through the 21st centuries.
The concert is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the College of Fine and Performing Arts, the School of Music and the Carol Grotnes Belk Endowment.
For more information about the performance, contact Frazier at 828-227-2400.
