Chamber Orchestra Concert: With Wayne State University students and faculty and guests from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Chamber Music Concert

Monday, February 3, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Wayne State University, Schaver Recital Hall, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201

The American Romanian Festival once again presents the Wayne State University Orchestra, joined by WSU faculty and musicians from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, in an evening of music guaranteed to help you travel over plains and borders. The first part of the program features Arthur Foote’s melodious and dynamic Serenade for Strings, followed by Exorcisme, a work for flute and chamber orchestra by Romanian composer Remus Georgescu and featuring WSU alumnus Shantanique Moore, currently a fellow with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The concert continues with the Almajan Suite by Remus Georgescu and selections from Old American Songs by Aaron Copland, featuring Wayne State University’s newly appointed voice professor Jonathan Lasch. The concerts ends with Constantin Silvestri’s melodious, playful, and fiery Three Pieces for String Orchestra.

This concert is given as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.

Concert Program

Arthur Foote (1853–1937)
Serenade, Op. 25
Praeludium: Allegro comodo
Air: Adagio, ma non troppo
Intermezzo: Allegretto grazioso
Romanze: Andante con moto
Gavotte: Allegro deciso

Remus Georgescu (b. 1932)
Exorcisme for Flute and String Orchestra


Shantanique Moore, flute

– INTERMISSION –

Remus Georgescu (b. 1932)
Suita Almăjană for String Orchestra
Allegro semplice
Lento, un poco rubato
Allegro moderato

Aaron Copland (1900–1990)
Old American Songs   
Simple Gifts
I Bought Me a Cat
At the River
Zion’s Walls

Jonathan Lasch, baritone

Constantin Silvestri (1913–1969)
Three Pieces for Strings
Pesante. Scherzoso
Cantabile
Veloce