Concert: Goshen College Orchestra Spring Concert

Date and time: Saturday, April 21, 2007, at 7:30 p.m.

Location: Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College Music Center

Cost: $6 adults, $4 seniors/students, available at the door. GC students free with ID.

Goshen College Orchestra to perform April 21 spring concert

GOSHEN, Ind. – The Goshen College Orchestra, directed by Associate Professor of Music John Graulty, will perform its spring concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 21 in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall. A pre-concert performance by the Fairfield High School Concert Band, directed by Mel Carpenter, will begin at 6:45 p.m.

The program will feature Czech composer Antonín Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World,” which was composed during Dvorák’s visit to the United States from 1892-1895 and was inspired by the African-American and Native American folk melodies that he heard while in New York. Also performed will be American composer Leonard Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story,” which incorporates dance rhythms from both North and South America.

Graulty is chair of the music department at Goshen College where he serves as music director of the Goshen College Orchestra and Honors Wind Symphony, and professor of clarinet and conducting. He has conducted professional ensembles at venues throughout Europe including performances in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Royal Albert Hall in London, the Red Army Theater in Moscow and the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. In September 2005, he began his second season as music director of the South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestra. He holds degrees from the Peabody and New England Conservatories, and a doctoral degree in higher education from Columbia University.

Tickets are available at the door and cost $6 for adults and $4 for seniors and students. Goshen College students are admitted free of charge with their student IDs. For more information, call the Music Center office at (574) 535-7361. 

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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