Warren Symphony Orchestra, Ta-ta-ta-TUM!

Ta – ta – ta – TUM!

Sunday, March 17, 2013 • 3 p.m., Warren Woods Tower High School

Pre-concert Discussion (2-2:30 p.m.)

Just prior to the concert, join Jessica Payette, Ph.D.,  Assistant Professor of Musicology at Oakland University for a discussion of the program.

Kicking off a concert featuring several of the orchestral repertoire’s most cherished and canonized compositions of the past two centuries, the Warren Symphony will perform the famed overture to Gioachino Rossini’s first comic opera, “The Italian in Algiers.” Dvorak’s elegant Serenade No. 2 in d minor for wind instruments, a favorite of Johannes Brahms, serves as a wonderful textural contrast to Aaron Jay Kernis’s sublime Musica Celestis, a magnificent work evoking endless hymns of praise. Then, hum along!—Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor lends its familiar four-note opening motif to the title of this event.