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Feature article
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Violinist, tuba player to perform with JCSO
By staff report
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| Maestro Robert J. Seebacher |
MILLIGAN COLLEGE — Continuing “Celebrating 40 Years of Making Music,” the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra will present Elizabeth McDonald, tuba, and Helen Bryenton, violin, as guest artists Nov. 14.
Maestro Robert J. Seebacher, conductor and music director, will conduct the concert at 7:30 p.m. at Seeger Chapel at Milligan College. He will also offer a pre-concert chat from 6:30 until 7:00 in the lower level of Seeger.
The concert will consist of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Overture to Nabucco;” Edvard Grieg’s “Norwegian Dances Op.35;” “Romance for Violin in F Major Op.50,” by Ludwig van Beethoven with Bryenton on violin; Johannes Brahms’ “Hungarian Dances No.5 and No.6,” which were performed by the JCSO in its first season; and Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance Marches 2 and 4.”
McDonald will be featured on the tuba in “Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra” by Ralph Vaughn Williams and “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” by Johann Strauss.
McDonald is a graduate student at the New England Conservatory, where she studies music performance. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kentucky, where she was awarded two of the highest graduation honors in the College of Fine Arts. She is an acclaimed solo artist and has won many awards, including the Brass Concerto Competition at the Aspen Music Festival.
Bryenton, concertmaster of the Johnson City Symphony, lives in Knoxville, where she taught Suzuki violin for 24 years. She currently teaches violin in her home.
She was a member of the Knoxville Symphony from 1988 until the birth of her first child in 1990. She received her undergraduate degree from Smith College and did graduate studies at the New England Conservatory and The University of Tennessee.
Free buses to the concert will be available at 6:15 from Colonial Hill, 6:30 from Maple Crest and Appalachian Christian Village and at 6:45 from City Hall.
For information about the orchestra and the concert, visit jcsymphony.com or call 926-8742.
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