Presented By: Life Sciences Orchestra
Stirrings of Spring: Life Sciences Orchestra Concert
Afternoon performance by orchestra of doctors, scientists & others features all-Russian program
The University of Michigan Life Sciences Orchestra will celebrate the long-awaited arrival of spring with a free concert on Sunday, April 27. The performance will begin at 4 p.m. at U-M’s famed Hill Auditorium at 825 N. University Ave. in Ann Arbor. It is open to the public with general admission seating. No tickets are required.
The LSO will perform three works by Russian composers: Alexander Borodin’s symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in E minor, and a symphonic poem by Dmitry Shostakovich, October, Op. 131.
Borodin, trained as a chemist and physician in the mid-1800s, is a fitting composer for the LSO to play, as the orchestra’s members are medical, health and science faculty, staff, students and alumni from throughout U-M. His musical tableau blends Russian and Asian influences.
Rachminoff’s symphony – written in the early 1900s after he emerged from a long depression with the help of a psychiatrist – builds from a suspenseful opening into lush, beautiful melodies, all leading to a triumphant climax.
Shostakovich’s rarely performed work, ostensibly written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution of 1917, weaves quotations and evocations of many of his subtly anti-Communist works together into a stirring whole.
The LSO will be led by music director Adrian Slywotzky, a graduate student in the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s nationally known orchestral conducting program. He will be assisted by Kevin Fitzgerald, also a student in the program.
This is the final concert of the LSO’s 14th season; it will be introduced by Janet A. Weiss, Ph.D., dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. A number of the LSO’s members are graduate students working toward doctoral degrees in fields ranging from neuroscience and biomedical engineering to theoretical ecology.
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The orchestra is part of the Gifts of Art program, which brings the world of art and music to the U-M Health System. The LSO gives members an outlet for their musical talents and a chance to interact with one another across academic disciplines and professions. Founded by students and staff from the U-M Health System, the orchestra made its concert debut in January 2001.
For more information on the concert or the LSO, visit www.umich.edu/~lsorch or www.facebook.com/umlso, send e-mail to orchestra@umich.edu, or call (734) 936-ARTS.
The LSO will perform three works by Russian composers: Alexander Borodin’s symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in E minor, and a symphonic poem by Dmitry Shostakovich, October, Op. 131.
Borodin, trained as a chemist and physician in the mid-1800s, is a fitting composer for the LSO to play, as the orchestra’s members are medical, health and science faculty, staff, students and alumni from throughout U-M. His musical tableau blends Russian and Asian influences.
Rachminoff’s symphony – written in the early 1900s after he emerged from a long depression with the help of a psychiatrist – builds from a suspenseful opening into lush, beautiful melodies, all leading to a triumphant climax.
Shostakovich’s rarely performed work, ostensibly written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution of 1917, weaves quotations and evocations of many of his subtly anti-Communist works together into a stirring whole.
The LSO will be led by music director Adrian Slywotzky, a graduate student in the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s nationally known orchestral conducting program. He will be assisted by Kevin Fitzgerald, also a student in the program.
This is the final concert of the LSO’s 14th season; it will be introduced by Janet A. Weiss, Ph.D., dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. A number of the LSO’s members are graduate students working toward doctoral degrees in fields ranging from neuroscience and biomedical engineering to theoretical ecology.
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The orchestra is part of the Gifts of Art program, which brings the world of art and music to the U-M Health System. The LSO gives members an outlet for their musical talents and a chance to interact with one another across academic disciplines and professions. Founded by students and staff from the U-M Health System, the orchestra made its concert debut in January 2001.
For more information on the concert or the LSO, visit www.umich.edu/~lsorch or www.facebook.com/umlso, send e-mail to orchestra@umich.edu, or call (734) 936-ARTS.
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