CONWAY, Ark. (November 18, 2014) – The Hendrix College
Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Karen Griebling, will present its annual Thanksgiving
Concert on Monday, Nov. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall.
The program includes music in observance in one of our
‘most American holidays” by living American composers and works that inspired
the development of an American sound.
Guest composer Stephen Gerber will talk about his work,
“Spirituals”, its sources in African-American spirituals and exploration of a
variety of postmodern techniques and styles.
The
program includes:
- Fantasia on a Ground by
John Harbison
- Spirituals by
Stephen Gerber
- Reel Time by
Jennifer Higdon
- Le Tombeaude Couperin by Maurice Ravel
- From the New World (The
Largo movement) by Antonin Dvorak
The program, sponsored by the Hendrix College Department of
Music, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Griebling
at 501-450-1243 or griebling@hendrix.edu.
About
the Guest Composer
Steven R. Gerber received
degrees from Haverford College and from Princeton University, where he received
a four-year fellowship. His composition teachers included Robert Parris, J. K.
Randall, Earl Kim, and Milton Babbitt. After the American premiere of his Violin Concerto at the Concert Hall of
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1995 by Nikkanen and the
National Chamber Orchestra under Gajewski, the Washington Post called it "a major addition to the
contemporary violin repertoire: lyrical, passionate, beautifully tailored to
the instrument's character and capabilities...Gerber has revived the spirit of
romanticism in this work, with a strong sense of tonal melody and of the
dramatic effects and surprises still possible in traditional forms...one of the
year's most memorable events." Read more here.
About Hendrix
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. This year, Hendrix was named the
country’s #1 “Up and Coming” liberal arts college and #8 in the nation for
“Best Undergraduate Teaching” by U.S.
News and World Report. Hendrix is
featured in the 2015 Fiske Guide to Colleges, Forbes
magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, and the latest
edition of Colleges That Change
Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges.
Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For
more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.