125 MTSU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OPEN NEW SEASON

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 16, 2006
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493


(MURFREESBORO)—The MTSU Symphony Orchestra and the MTSU Chamber Orchestra will present the opening concert of the 2006-2007 season at 8 p.m. Oct. 22 in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
The concert is free and open to the public.
"The Symphony Orchestra will present the finale of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, Puccini’s breathtakingly beautiful Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut," said Dr. Carol Nies, MTSU professor and conductor of the groups.
Nies also said the orchestra will perform Verdi’s Overture from I Vespri Siciliani and Gustav Holst’s orchestral tour de force, Mars from The Planets.
Nies said a smaller group, the MTSU Chamber Orchestra, will perform selections from Purcell’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
"(The group) will also perform Prélude and Sicilienne from Fauré’s delicate and shimmering Pélleas et Mélisande Suite," Nies noted.
•For more information on the Oct. 22 concert or other concerts in the McLean School of Music, please call 615-898-2493 or visit the "calendar of events" link at www.mtsumusic.com.



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