Event Categories: Music,U Arts Pass
Campus Locations: Libby Gardner Concert Hall (DGH)
Cost: General Admission: $10, Seniors & Students: $5
Ticket URL: Name: School of Music
Contact Phone: 8015816762
Contact Email: events@music.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes
Link: music.utah.edu

Our 51^st season opens with two audience favorites, the Variations on a Theme by Haydn by Johannes Brahms and the Sixth Symphony of Antonin Dvorak. Both are examples of the finest orchestral writing of the late 19^th century, helping assure both composers of their place in history. The Variations are not, as advertised, on a theme by Haydn, yet Brahms and his publisher probably knew this. As the theme was believed by the public to be by the venerated composer, the name stuck (and likely helped sell the piece to audiences!). Dvorak’s Symphony no. 6 is an example of a composer at the top of his creative game, blending Czech folk elements with traditional symphonic writing to produce a wholly unique sound. Orchestras and audiences love both works, but they will also be enchanted by our opening piece, an overture to a little-known opera by Dame Ethel Smyth, an English composer not well known in America. Smyth was a fascinating woman, the first female composer to receive a damehood (the equivalent of a male being knighted). She also worked for the suffrage movement, even spending time in prison for her activities. Her Overture to the Wreckers is a wonderful example of late Victorian-era music, with hints of Edward Elgar, Arthur Sullivan and others, woven into a wholly original composition. 
Program:

• Ethyl Smyth: Overture to The Wreckers
• Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
• Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in D Major, op. 60

Event Categories: Music,U Arts Pass
Campus Locations: Libby Gardner Concert Hall (DGH)
Cost: General Admission: $10, Seniors & Students: $5
Ticket URL: Name: School of Music
Contact Phone: 8015816762
Contact Email: events@music.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes
Link: music.utah.edu

Please note – the time of this concert is subject to change. The U of U vs. BYU football game may impact our concert time. Please be prepared to switch to a matinee at 2:00 pm should it be necessary. We will announce the concert time on our website and Facebook page. We will communicate with patrons via the email used to purchase tickets. 

If you ask our music director who his favorite composers are, he’ll likely hem and haw and be non-committal. But our November concert certainly include three of his top five favorites. Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides (Fingals Cave) is perhaps the finest example of a Romantic-era work depicting landscape. One can hear the waves, sea spray, and even imagine the basalt rock columns that reminded the composer of a pipe organ. Baritone James Bobick joins us to sing Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer. These four orchestral songs stand on their own merit, but audiences may also hear that the melodies and orchestrations were source material for Mahler’s early symphonies. We end with a major staple of the symphonic repertoire, Sibelius’s grand and eloquent Symphony No. 2. The finale of the symphony was popular with the Finnish people as it was connected with the struggle for Finnish Independence, so much so that it was dubbed the “Symphony of Independence”. Written immediately after his popular Finlandia, Sibelius said of the work, “My second symphony is a confession of the soul.” 
Program:

• Felix Mendelssohn: Fingal’s Cave Overture (The Hebrides)
• Gustav Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer, James Bobick, baritone
• Jean Sibelius: Symphony no. 2 in D Major, op. 43

Event Categories: Music
Campus Locations: Libby Gardner Concert Hall (DGH)
Cost: Adult - $13.50; U Arts Pass Event: U of U Students - Free w/current ID; Youth - Free
Ticket URL: Name: School of Music
Contact Phone: 8015816762
Contact Email: events@music.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes
Link: music.utah.edu

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The annual fall concert of the campus-wide orchestra. Music by Mozart, W.G. Still and more.

Event Categories: Music,U Arts Pass
Campus Locations: Libby Gardner Concert Hall (DGH)
Cost: Adult - $13.50; Arts Pass Event: U of U Students - Free w/current ID; Youth - Free
Ticket URL: Name: School of Music
Contact Phone: 8015816762
Contact Email: events@music.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes
Link: music.utah.edu

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The sounds that are unmistakable, from Ives’s classic Symphony No. 2 to works by Enesco and Thoravldsdottir.  

Event Categories: Music,U Arts Pass
Campus Locations: Libby Gardner Concert Hall (DGH)
Cost: General Admission: $10, Seniors & Students: $5
Ticket URL: Name: School of Music
Contact Phone: 8015816762
Contact Email: events@music.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes
Link: music.utah.edu

SNOW! Come celebrate what makes winter in northern Utah special as we perform a concert dedicated to the fluffy white stuff! The entire family will delight to Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Snowflakes, LeRoy Anderson’s Sleighride and more! The highlight of the evening will be a narrated showing of the movie “The Snowman,” conducted by our assistant conductor, Mike Trachalios. And of course, we will have the traditional sing-along to get everyone in the holiday spirit!

Program:

• Leroy Anderson: Sleighride
• Peter Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Snowflakes
• Howard Blake: The Snowman, Daniel Tuutau, narrator
• Frosty the Snowman
• Lucien Cailliet: Variations on Pop Goes the Weasel
• Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival (audience sing-along)