The Reno Chamber Orchestra and didgeridoo player William Barton will perform Barton’s Birdsong at Dusk at the orchestra’s season-opening concert on September 20 at Nightingale Concert Hall. Music Director Theodore Kuchar will lead the program, which also includes From Ubirr by the late Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe, as well as Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”) and the Overture to Telemann’s Hamburger Ebb’ und Flut (Water Music). Featured in the orchestra’s four other 2014-15 programs are symphonies by Mozart, Beethoven, Kalinnikov, Haydn, and Schubert, as well as Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, Britten’s Symphony for Cello (Op. 68) with soloist Emilio Colón, Dvorák’s Te Deum with the University of Nevada-Reno Chamber Singers, and Lutoslawski’s Venetian Games.
Posted September 18, 2014
