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North Carolina Symphony Concert at MHC

North Carolina SymphonyMars Hill College is pleased to welcome the North Carolina Symphony to campus for a spring concert to help raise funds for the college’s fine arts programs. The concert will take place on April 25 at 7:30 pm in Moore Auditorium. It will be the first time in more than 30 years that the North Carolina Symphony, founded in 1932 by Mars Hill College alumnus Lamar Stringfield, has performed at the college.

N.C. Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn, often praised for his “graceful and expressive direction,” will lead the Mars Hill event. Among the pieces to be included in the concert will be Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 and Concert Aria “Ah, perfido!” Other pieces planned for the concert include: Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Wagner’s Prelude to Act I from Lohengrin, Mozart’s “Martern aller arten” from The Abduction from the Seraglio, and Wagner’s Prelude to Act III from Lohengrin.

General admission tickets to the concert are $25. Patron tickets are $100, and include special seating, as well as a post-concert reception with the maestro and musicians.

Tickets may be purchased online now, or by contacting the SART business office at (828) 689-1384.

Sponsor:
Madison County Tourism

The program:

BEETHOVEN AND BEYOND

Grant Llewellyn, Music Director
Jodi Burns, Soprano

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Prelude to Act I from Lohengrin
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

“Martern aller Arten” from The Abduction from the Seraglio, K.384
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Jodi Burns, soprano

Prelude to Act III from Lohengrin
Richard Wagner

“Ah! Perfido,” Op. 65
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Jodi Burns, soprano

Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93
Ludwig van Beethoven
I.Allegro vivace e con brio
II.Allegretto scherzando
III.Tempo di minuetto
IV.Allegro vivace

Support for the North Carolina Symphony’s tour of western North Carolina is made possible by a grant from The Cannon Foundation. Statewide partner: Progress Energy.