Sat 4/2 @ 8PM
Once again, the Akron Symphony expands its reach to put on an evening that features more than just a bunch of musicians sitting on stage playing wonderful music.
For “Symphonic Dances,” taking place at the University of Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall, they’re enlisting dancers: the Korean Three Drum Dance, who perform movement and music simultaneously, and three professional dancers who have performed with such companies as Verb Ballets, GroundWorks DanceTheater and Dancing Wheels: Brian Murphy, Christina Lindhout and Morgan Walker.
The evening features only one piece by a regular on concert programs: Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. The other four pieces include two by women, two by young, currently working composers, one by an African-American and one by an early 20th century Spanish composer. They include Masquerade by 42-year-old British composer Anna Clyne; Joaquín Turina’s 1919 Danzas fantásticas; early 20th-century African-American composer Florence Price’s Dances in the Canebreaks; and film/TV composer Kyle Newmaster’s Impressions of Cheonmachong.
ASO Music Director Christopher Wilkins conducts the program. Tickets are $20-60.