Homecoming
September 21 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Angelin Chang, piano
The Muncie Symphony Orchestra begins the season by bringing home Muncie-native and one of the first MSO Young Artist Competition winners, Angelin Chang. Dr. Chang is a Grammy award-winning classical pianist and the City of Muncie, Indiana Honorary Cultural Ambassador for Goodwill.
Continuing to bring to Muncie an inclusive selection of repertoire, this performance will include American composer and teacher Jennifer Higdon’s piece, Blue Cathedral. Higdon has received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music and two Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Blue Cathedral was written in memory of Higdon’s younger brother, Andrew Blue Higdon.
Billy the Kid Suite………………………………………………………………………..Aaron Copland
Blue Cathedral………………………………………………………………………..Jennifer Higdon
INTERMISSION
Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23 in Bb Major………………………………………………………………………..Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky