One Weekend, Three Free Concerts: Chamber Ensembles, Civic Symphony and Wind Symphony To Perform

Nov. 14, 2014 – Three free concerts at Allegheny College the weekend of Nov. 21-23 will showcase the talents of students, faculty and other members of the Meadville community. Student chamber ensembles will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 21 in Ford Chapel. The Civic Symphony will perform at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22 in Shafer Auditorium. The Wind Symphony will perform at 3:15 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 23 in Shafer Auditorium.

Friday’s recital will feature the flute, clarinet and saxophone ensembles as well as the brass quintet and two woodwind quintets. The program will include a wide range of music, including works by Scott Joplin, Igor Stravinsky, Phyllis Avidan Louke, Morton Gould, Isaac Albeniz, Jim Parcel, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Georges Bizet, Denes Agay, Daniel Dorff, G.P. Telemann, and John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Faculty coaches for the ensembles are Bronwell Bond, Julie Hepler and Lowell Hepler.

Pianist Andrew Sipple will be the featured soloist in the opening movement of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor when the Allegheny College Civic Symphony performs on Saturday under the direction of Ronald Stitt. Sipple is a student in the piano studio of Professor Lowell Hepler.

Also on the Civic Symphony’s program is Karl Stamitz’s Symphony in Eb, Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 and Clare Grundman’s American Folk Rhapsody No 2. The Civic Symphony includes community members as well as Allegheny students.

On Sunday the 92-member Allegheny College Wind Symphony, conducted by Lowell Hepler, will present their annual fall concert. The featured soloist for the concert will be oboist Faith Robinson, who will perform “Gabriel’s Oboe” by Ennio Morricone.

Other works on the program will include the First Suite in E-flat by Gustav Holst, “Pilatus” by Steven Reineke, “Handel in the Strand” by Percy Grainger, “The White Eagle” by Robert Longfield, “American Civil War Fantasy” by Jerry Bilik and “The Liberty Bell March” by John Philip Sousa.

Pre-concert music on Sunday will be provided by chamber ensembles drawn from the Wind Symphony membership.