If you've never had a chance to catch the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, you're really missing a treat - and Monday you can see them for free! Here's the press release:
The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Grant Cooper will present a Free Labor Day Concert at Woodrow Wilson Auditorium in Beckley on Monday, September 3, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
Admission to the concert, which is sponsored by the Beckley Area Foundation, is free and open to the public. Additional sponsorship of guest artists is provided by City National Bank.
The orchestra's program will range from the movies to the classics to the Broadway
stage. Classical selections will include the Festival Overture by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky's Overture: 1812. Music from the movies will include Star Wars and Jurassic Park. Broadway shows will be highlighted with music from The King and I. As a special addition to this concert, the WVSO will feature an excerpt, “I Can Hear Them Now,” from the musical Lincoln by the Charleston based composer and lyricist team of Mark Scarpelli and Dan Kehde. The Lincoln excerpt will feature vocalists Mariel van Dalsum-Boggs, Ryan Hardiman, and Jonathan Cavendish.
The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra is West Virginia 's premier performing arts organization, presenting over 30 concerts annually to audiences throughout the Mountain State.
The concert on September 3 is presented by the Beckley Area Foundation with sponsorship of guest artists provided by City National Bank, and with additional financial assistance from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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