The Miami University Symphony Orchestra and Butler Philharmonic Youth Orchestra are collaborating this Saturday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in a free, public concert at Miami University’s Hall Auditorium.
Miami’s Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of music director Ricardo Averbach, will perform “Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 1” by Manuel de Falla and “Defiance” by Martin Hebel, according to a press release.
The orchestra’s performance of “Defiance” is its second following the group’s recent presentation at the College Orchestra Directors Association National Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Butler Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, conducted by music director James Ledbetter, will perform works by Shostakovich, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. An extension of the Butler Philharmonic Orchestra, the youth orchestra rehearses at Fairfield Freshman School.
The two orchestras will come together for a joint performance to close the night with “Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana” by Mascagni and “Finlandia” by Sibelius.