Orchestral Music of Barbara Harbach on July 18 at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
Posted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement
Barbara Harbach’s Rhapsodie Jardine for oboe and strings will be performed by the Gateway Festival Orchestra, Dr. James Richards, conductor on Sunday, July 18 – 7:30 PM in Brookings Quadrangle, just west of Brookings Hall, near the intersection of Brookings and Hoyt Drives on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Also on the Bach to Basics Summer program will be J. S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, the overture to Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8.
Rhapsodie Jardine features lush harmonies and melodic invention, and is a musical vista of resonant colors and counterpoint. Cathy Woelbling-Paul, teacher of applied music in the University’s Arts & Sciences department, will serve as soloist in the work. It has been recorded for MSR Classics – www.msrcd.com/1252/1252.html.
The July 18 concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 314-569-0371 or visit www.gatewayfestivalorchestra.org/.
Visit www.umsl.edu/services/creative/assets/pdfs/messenger/harbach_fanfare.pdf to read an article about Harbach’s music in the January-February issue of Fanfare magazine. Her website is at www.barbaraharbach.com/.
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