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Student Symphony at Williams College02:45PM / Friday, April 17, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Williams College Student Symphony will present their concert "Saluting the Sea" on Sunday, May 3, 2009, at 3pm in Chapin Hall on the Williams College campus.
This free event is open to the public.
The program will be conducted by two Williams students, Leo Brown '11 and Teng Jian Khoo '09. Pieces to be performed are Handel’s Water Music; Erik Satie’s Sports et Divertissements, arranged for the orchestra by Brian Simalchik '10; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Overture Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt/Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey; and Xian Xinghai’s Yellow River Piano Concerto.
The Williams College Student Symphony is a 50-member orchestra conducted and administered by students, Teng Jian Khoo '09 and Leo Brown '11 with sponsorship by the Department of Music. The Student Symphony performs two to three times per year.
Past repertoire has included traditional orchestral works such as Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Suite, Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite, Brahms' Tragic Overture, and Smetana's Moldau. The orchestra has also performed 20th-century American music by Ives, Copland, and Barber. In addition, award-winning composer Donald Erb visited the Symphony to supervise a rehearsal of Treasure in the Snow, a work of his which was then presented in a spring concert. The Symphony also performs works by student composers, including Celestial Episode by Judd Greenstein '01 and Gesture I by Andrea Mazzariello '00.
Senior Cello Recital: Betsy Ribble '09
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Williams College Department of Music will present a Senior Recital featuring Betsy Ribble '09 on Sunday, May 3, at 1 p.m. at The Clark in Williamstown. She will headline the Artsbreak concert that afternoon.
This free event is open to the public.
Ribble will be playing Dvorák’s Concerto in B Minor, opus 104 and she will be accompanied by Doris Stevenson.
Betsy Ribble is a senior English major from Charlottesville, Virginia. She started playing the piano at the age of three and cello at the age of 10. She was principal cellist of the acclaimed Charlottesville High School String Ensemble and played in an all-cello quartet and a traditional string quartet. At Williams she studies with Nat Parke and plays with the Berkshire Symphony, Symphonic Winds, and numerous chamber groups. This January she accompanied the music department to Argentina, performing as one of two soloists in Vivaldi’s Double Cello Concerto. She spent last spring in Prague and hopes to live abroad again soon. |
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