Michael Haithcock, conductor Dustin Barr, graduate student conductor Pre-concert lecture with composer Roshanne Etezady, percussionist Jonathan Ovalle, and Michael Haithcock at 7:15 in the Lower Lobby. “Impressions.” repertoire illuminating each composer’s musical response to a specific circumstance. In an attempt to impress his teachers and patrons, Beethoven wrote an enduring work at the impressionable age of 23. Welcome Roshanne Etezady to the U-M composition faculty and experience her musical response to William Morris Hunt’s famous painting of a beautiful and terrifying Zoroastrian night goddess alongside Holst’s depiction of life in a London neighborhood. Alarcón’s impressions of Spanish and Latin dance rhythms unfold in his evocative symphonic preludes, Duende. PROGRAM: Beethoven - Octet; Etezady - Anahita; Holst - Hammersmith; Alarcón - Duende: Four Symphonic Preludes.