Music From Both Sides

Of The Atlantic

DANBURY — Music from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean will be performed by Danbury Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, November 1, at 3 pm, at Ives Concert Hall, 181 White Street (within White Hall on the midtown campus of Western Connecticut State University).

Music Director and Conductor Ariel Rudiakov will direct Danbury Symphony Orchestra. Mr Rudiakov is also the Artistic Director of the Manchester (Vermont) Music Festival and plays viola in orchestras throughout New York.

The featured work on the program, Symphony Number 2, is by native Danburian son and composer, Charles E. Ives. Born on Main Street in Danbury and steeped in the small town life of Danbury at the turn of the 19th Century, Symphony No. 2 is filled with easily identifiable popular songs, patriotic songs, hymn tunes and other song beloved by Ives. The concert hall where the concert will be performed was named for the famous composer in the 1960s.

Danbury Symphony Orchestra will also perform the Hebrides Overture, an exciting tone poem depicting Fingal’s Cave, a large cave in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Northern Scotland. German composer Felix Mendelssohn portrays the majesty of this cave and the rolling waves of the Northern Atlantic Ocean during a voyage he took to the cave in 1830.

Also on the program is Enigma Variations by the English composer Edward Elgar. In this popular piece, Elgar paints musical portraits of his friends and even himself. The “enigma” is that audiences are to guess who is being depicted in each of the variations.

Admission is free, and plenty of parking is available in the garage on Fifth Avenue. Donations for Danbury Music Centre will be accepted at the door.

For additional information call Danbury Music Centre at 748-1716 or send email to dmc1935@snet.net.