Feb. 24, 2005
Contact: Michele Abba
(805) 756-2406
http://www.symphony.calpoly.edu
Cal Poly Symphony to Perform Winter Concert March 13
SAN LUIS OBISPO -- The Cal Poly Symphony will usher in spring during its Winter Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 13 in the Spanos Theatre.
The concert will feature music that struggles between darkness and light, said conductor and Music Department faculty member David Arrivée.
The program will begin with Richard Wagner's "Charfreitagszauber" ("Good Friday Spell") from his opera "Parsifal," which alternates between personal anguish and universal salvation.
Modest Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" will follow. "The music portrays the cavorting of witches and the ancient Slavic god of darkness," Arrivée said.
The program will conclude with Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5, "Reformation," "which begins musically where Wagner's 'Charfreitagszauber' left off and resolves the struggle," Arrivée said.
Tickets for the concert are $5 for students and senior citizens and $8 for the public. They are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (756-2787).
The concert is sponsored by the Music Department, College of Liberal Arts and Instructionally Related Activities program. For more information, call the Music Department at 756-2406.
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