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News from
FRIENDS OF MUSIC
PO Box 220
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
www.friendswv.org
304-876-5765
October 10, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
(Note to editors: A 1 MB photo of the soloist for this concert, cellist Amit Peled, is attached. For more info, contact Peter Smith at 304-876-1139 or pvsmith@frontiernet.net)
TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR NOV. 2 & 3 FRIENDS OF MUSIC CONCERT IN SHEPHERDSTOWN
The Friends of Music will present two performances of a Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra concert in Shepherdstown during the November 2 and 3 weekend.
The first performance will be at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday the 2nd; the second will be a 3:00 p.m. matinee on Sunday, the 3rd.
Both performances will be held in the historic Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church at 100 West Washington Street.
Entitled “Radiance and Fire,” the concert will feature three works: Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 by American Composer Henry Cowell (1897–1965); the Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major of Joseph Haydn (1732–1809); and the Symphony No. 40 in G minor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).
Admission to the concert will be free for Friends of Music members. The ticket price for others will be $40 per person. Tickets can be purchased on the Friends’ website at www.friendswv.org; or by mail (FOM, PO Box 220, Shepherdstown, WV 25443); or, if space is available, at the church at both performances. Visa and Master Card will be accepted. For more information, contact the Friends’ office at info@friendswv.org or 304-876-5765.
The featured soloist will be cellist Amit Peled, who is acclaimed as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. Peled has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall in New York; the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; Salle Gaveau in Paris; Wigmore Hall in London; and the Konzerthauz in Berlin, Germany, to name a few.
Peled is a cello professor at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and has performed in and presented master classes around the world. Embracing the new online era, he has also established an Amit Peled Online Cello Academy, which reaches out to hundreds of cellists all over the world.
The orchestra’s music director, Jed Gaylin, will conduct. He will give talks at the Church about the concert before each performance, sharing his insights into the works being performed. The Saturday evening talk will begin at 6:30 p.m.; the Sunday afternoon talk will begin at 2:00 p.m. Each talk will last about a half hour. Anyone can attend.
The concert is part of the Year of Civility, a collaboration between Shepherd University and the Stubblefield Institute. To learn more about the Year, go to www.shepherd.edu/the-year-of-civility.
The Friends of Music is a local non-profit organization that was founded in 1999 to support and promote musical excellence in the Eastern Panhandle. Gaylin has been music director since 2012. He also serves as the music director of Baltimore’s Hopkins Symphony Orchestra and the Bay Atlantic Symphony in New Jersey.
This season’s Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra concerts are once again being presented with generous financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts. The Friends of Music also receives generous support from the Nora Roberts Foundation, Ecolab, and the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts.
Dr. John Gibson, DDS, and Heidi Johnston, Keller Williams Realty, are sustaining business sponsors. Other business sponsors include Jefferson Security Bank and City National Bank.
Full information about the Friends and the concert season is available on the Friends’ website: www.friendswv.org