Converse Symphony Orchestra Presents Young Artist Competition 2009 Winners
On October 5th at 7:30 pm, the Converse Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Siegwart Reichwald, will begin its season by celebrating three female musicians. The concert will take place in Twichell Auditorium and will feature Converse College seniors Katelyn Ridenour and Anna Owens, winners of the Young Artist Competition 2009. Katelyn will be the clarinet soloist for the last movement of Bernard Henrik Crusell’s Clarinet Concerto No. 2, Op. 5, and Anna Owens will sing Giacomo Puccini’s famous aria "Si, mi chiamano Mimì" from the opera La Bohème. The orchestra will also perform a long forgotten symphony by nineteenth-century female composer Louise Farrenc. Premiered on April 22, 1849 by the Société des concerts du Conservatoire in Paris, this composition was very well received by the Parisian audience and music critics. The Symphony No. 3 shows the influences of the German Romantic School of Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Despite its immediate success the work was rarely performed, and the composition remained unpublished until 1998. The symphony is a dramatic, rich work that again captures audiences as it did over a century ago.
The concert is open to the public, and admission is free.