Utah Symphony Chamber Orchestra Performs in Caine Performance Hall
The Utah Symphony Chamber Orchestra can be heard in Logan in a performance sponsored by Utah State University's Caine College of the Arts. The concert is Friday, Jan. 16, and begins at 8 p.m. at the Caine Performance Hall.
The Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University presents the Utah Symphony Chamber Orchestra in concert with guest conductor David Loebel Friday, Jan. 16, at 8 p.m. in the Caine Performance Hall on USU’s Logan campus.
Program selections include Six épigraphes antiques by Debussy, originally a set of pieces for piano-four-hands and written in 1914. Based on poetry from Pierre Louÿs, the music explores sensual themes of love and devotion according to the evening’s program notes. Another work on the program, Sérénade pour petit orchestra, demonstrates Françaix’s characteristic lightness and wit; in the Sérénade the audience hears his confidence in every bar and rich textures achieved with economy of means, the program notes continue.
The Sextet for Piano and Winds was composed by Poulenc between 1930 and 1932 for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon. The work is playful and upbeat with themes that reflect the Jazz Age of the 1920s. Also reflecting jazz music (including tones that mimic Gershwin) is Ibert’s Divertissement, a piece of comic, heartfelt life that does not reflect the tumultuous time in history. Ibert asserted that “all systems are valid provided that one derives music from them.”
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as “being secure in the music and in his ability to convey his ideas,” Loebel, the evening’s guest conductor, is currently the associate director of orchestras at the New England Conservatory, following an 11 year tenure as music director of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Prior to his Memphis appointment, Loebel had a decade-long association with the St. Louis Symphony, serving as associate principal conductor.
Founded in 1940, the Utah Symphony is dedicated to offering orchestral performances that span the traditions of the past and present new possibilities for the audiences. The orchestra presents more than 70 performances each season in Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City and participates in the Utah Opera’s four annual productions at the Capitol Theatre in addition to numerous community concerts throughout the state and the annual outdoor summer series, the Deer Valley Music Festival in Park City. The Utah Symphony is one of the most engaged full-time orchestras in the nation.
The Logan concert is in the Caine Performance Hall and begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 adults, $8 youth and seniors, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information, visit the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 435-797-8022 or see the college’s Production Services website.
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Writer: Whitney Schulte, 435-797-9203, whitney.schulte@usu.edu
Contact: Denise Albiston, 435-797-1500, denise.albiston@usu.edu
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