USU Symphony Orchestra Presents 'Poetry of the Seasons'

The Utah State University Symphony Orchestra presents “Poetry of the Seasons,” a concert featuring works by Vivaldi and Brahms, Tuesday, Dec. 2, in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center (approximately 1110 E. 610 North, Logan). Concert time is 7:30 p.m.

The Caine School of the Arts event is under the direction of Department of Music faculty member and conductor Sergio Bernal.

 

Tickets are $5, and free to USU students with a valid ID. Tickets are available at the CSA Box Office online, or by calling (435) 797-8022.

 

Fry Street Quartet member William Fedkenheuer joins the orchestra as guest performer for Vivaldi’s celebrated Four Seasons. The orchestra concludes with Brahms’s beautiful Fourth Symphony.

 

Fedkenheuer and the Fry Street Quartet recently completed a performance of the entire Beethoven String Quartets cycle. The Fry Street Quartet is USU’s faculty-quartet-in-residence, and Fedkenheuer is first violinist. His appearance with the USU Symphony Orchestra allows audience members an opportunity to hear his solo playing.

 

“It’s very exciting to perform with the USU Symphony Orchestra and share the stage with our students who have dedicated their lives to the performance of great works of music,” Fedkenheuer said. “To be able to rehearse and explore this music together with professor Bernal and the great musicians of the next generation is an inspirational and moving experience.”

 

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons contrasts with Brahms’s Fourth Symphony in a curious way, said Bernal.

 

“While Brahms looks to the past by paying tribute to Bach, a contemporary of Vivaldi, Vivaldi goes to the future by writing ‘program music,’ a type of composition that would become extremely popular during Brahms’s lifetime.”

 

Program music makes reference to extra-musical sources, Bernal said. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is based on sonnets about the seasons and reflects the texts in colorful and imaginative ways.

 

Contact: Contact: Sergio Bernal, sergio.bernal@usu.edu
Writer: Sally Okelberry (435) 797-1500; sally.okelberry@usu.edu