Shippensburg University Community Orchestra: Mozart, Beethoven & Bach at Luhrs Performing Arts Center

Sunday November 19th, 2023 * 3:00 PM

Shippensburg faculty artists grace the stage with their talents on this concert with Mark Hartman (violin), Suzanne Thierry (flute) and Margaret Lucia (harpsichord) joining the ensemble for Bach’s Brandenburg No. 5, one of Bach’s most famous Brandenburg concertos.

Then the full orchestra accompanies our very talented faculty member Fred Dade on Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, a virtuosic piece known for its breadth of emotion – sometimes dark, sometimes tempestuous and finally jubilant at the end – you may know it from the film, Amadeus.  Imagine, this piece premiered with Mozart himself not only playing, but conducting from the piano!

Finally, the full orchestra will play Beethoven’s 8th symphony, a piece known for its humor – watch the video below if you’d like to hear Maestro Leonard Bernstein’s take on the 8th Symphony.

From movies to cartoons or commercials, classical music sometimes feels like a ubiquitous backdrop to our lives.

Hearing pieces by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart on the Shippensburg University Community Orchestra’s fall concert, you’ll appreciate how many of the themes in the selections resonate with music you have heard in film or animation.

(Can anyone name the 1980s animated television show that used Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto?)

You will also hear how distinctive the styles of three of the greatest composers the world has known are, from the clean crisp patterns of a Bach concerto to the lush full sound of a Beethoven orchestral score.

This concert is a musical gift to the community, free and open to the public!

No ticket needed.