ARCO Chamber Orchestra performs in Ensemble Series

UGA's ARCO Chamber Orchestra takes the Hodgson Concert Hall stage on Thursday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m., exploring different genres of chamber works, including the modern film score. The program features works by Handel, Respighi, Tchaikovsky, Schnittke. Special guest D. Ray McClellan, professor of clarinet, will join the ensemble to perform Canzona for Clarinet and String Orchestra by Sergei Taneev. 

 

Under the baton of Levon Ambartsumian, Regents and Franklin Professor and artistic director of the orchestra, the orchestra will open the curtain with one of the Twelve Grand Concertos, Concerto grosso in E minor, Op. 6, no. 3 by George Frideric Handel. It features two violins and a cello as soloists. Handel’s Op.6 works are favored and performed along with Handel’s other works. Handel himself introduced it between the parts of his Oratorios in public.

 

Adventure of a Dentist (1965) is a comedy/drama film directed by Elem Klimov. Schnittke scored film music for the movie and orchestrated it as a suite to be performed. The Suite in the Old Style, Op. 80, one of the early film scores by Schnittke, will sound unique because Schnittke used the Baroque style and genre in modern film, juxtaposed with his composition style. 

 

Tickets are $12 for non-students and $3 for UGA students with a UGAID. This concert will honor tickets from the previously canceled fall concert. If you are unable to attend, live streaming is available. Visit www.music.uga.edu/live-streaming to tune in.