CCM’s Concert Orchestra, Chamber Players and Faculty Jazztet will present special concerts bookending the University of Cincinnati’s 2011 Homecoming weekend later on this month. The concerts are free and open to the public, and UC fans and alumni are invited to come to campus and experience CCM’s world-class student and faculty artists in action.
The CCM Philharmonia Orchestra. Photography by UC Photographic Services.
CCM’s Philharmonia and Concert Orchestras open their seasons with a festival celebrating two twentieth-century Russian powerhouse composers, Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev. Running from October 6 to November 4, the Prokofiev and Shostakovich Festival showcases the talents of CCM students and faculty in a concert series featuring a variety of the composers’ works, including symphonies, overtures, concertos and chamber music, as well as selections from their operas and ballets.
Based on the classic novel by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men tells the story of George and Lennie, two displaced farm hands during the Great Depression. Chasing the American dream to someday own their own stake of land, the pair travels across the California countryside in search of work. When their journey leads them into trouble, one friend must make a tragic choice to save the other. Sung in English with supertitles. Opening night will feature special pre- and post-performance talks by Maestro Carlisle Floyd.
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