Presented By: Life Sciences Orchestra
Life Sciences Orchestra 25th Anniversary Concert
Scheherazade and beyond
The LSO will conclude its 25th season of blending music, medicine and science with a free performance at Hill Auditorium.
Under the baton of music director Nicholas Bromilow, and assistant conductor, Michael Roest, the LSO will present works by Johannes Brahms, Jessie Montgomery, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in a free performance. Bromilow, a doctoral student in orchestral conducting at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance, will give a pre-concert lecture at 6:45pm to discuss the works on the program.
The program begins with Brahms’ rousing Academic Festival Overture, which he wrote in response to receiving an honorary degree from a German university, and which quotes four different drinking songs popular with students. It will be followed by Montgomery’s solemn, songlike and cathartic piece, Hymn for Everyone, written in 2021 in response to recent events.
The evening’s showpiece is Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, a musical depiction of the crafty female storyteller of 1,001 Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights. Concertmaster and U-M ophthalmologist Jennifer Weizer, M.D., will be featured on the solo violin passages of the suite, which also calls on the talents of many other instrumental soloists.
The concert is open to all with no tickets required. The LSO, whose members are faculty, staff, students, alumni and retirees of the U-M medical, health sciences and scientific community, is part of Gifts of Art, Michigan Medicine's arts in healthcare program.
For those unable to attend in person, the concert will be livestreamed at https://youtu.be/-ud-obNpmZE
Donations to support the orchestra may be given online at michmed.org/lso.
Show your support and purchase 25th anniversary LSO shirts and tote bags at michmed.org/28vKv
Under the baton of music director Nicholas Bromilow, and assistant conductor, Michael Roest, the LSO will present works by Johannes Brahms, Jessie Montgomery, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in a free performance. Bromilow, a doctoral student in orchestral conducting at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance, will give a pre-concert lecture at 6:45pm to discuss the works on the program.
The program begins with Brahms’ rousing Academic Festival Overture, which he wrote in response to receiving an honorary degree from a German university, and which quotes four different drinking songs popular with students. It will be followed by Montgomery’s solemn, songlike and cathartic piece, Hymn for Everyone, written in 2021 in response to recent events.
The evening’s showpiece is Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, a musical depiction of the crafty female storyteller of 1,001 Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights. Concertmaster and U-M ophthalmologist Jennifer Weizer, M.D., will be featured on the solo violin passages of the suite, which also calls on the talents of many other instrumental soloists.
The concert is open to all with no tickets required. The LSO, whose members are faculty, staff, students, alumni and retirees of the U-M medical, health sciences and scientific community, is part of Gifts of Art, Michigan Medicine's arts in healthcare program.
For those unable to attend in person, the concert will be livestreamed at https://youtu.be/-ud-obNpmZE
Donations to support the orchestra may be given online at michmed.org/lso.
Show your support and purchase 25th anniversary LSO shirts and tote bags at michmed.org/28vKv
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