The Blue Ridge Orchestra continues celebrating its 25th Anniversary Season with two “March Melodrama” performances programmed by Music Director, Dr. Emily Mariko Eng. Franklin Keel, Asheville’s talented musician, cellist, & composer who has made several solo appearances with the BRO, will lead the orchestra as Guest Conductor. Please join the Blue Ridge Orchestra for an afternoon of orchestral favorites in Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. We open March Melodrama with Gluck’s dramatic Overture to Iphigenie in Aulis. The BRO then highlights pianist Ivan Seng in Mozart’s Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488. The second half of the program shifts to Dvorak’s Symphony no. 8 in G major, which takes its inspiration from the nature and folk music of his homeland Bohemia, presently the Czech Republic. March Melodrama is the second offering of Blue Ridge Orchestra’s 25th Anniversary season, which expresses WNC’s reflection and resilience after Hurricane Helene.

The Blue Ridge Orchestra has played across Western North Carolina since 1999. This all-volunteer ensemble performs a variety of orchestral music in schools, churches, concert halls, and music clubs.

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