Paul Henry Smith, a classically trained conductor who studied with Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache, will play his computer-based digital orchestra using Nintendo Wii controllers in an eclectic concert of orchestral classics, video game music, and new student works.
Animated Watercolor, by Jeremy Spindler:
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A piece for several instruments, by Christian A. Gentry:
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Symphony, by Anton Webern (1928):
The Fauxharmonic Orchestra concert will present classics of orchestral music with music from the video game Final Fantasy 8, as well as two new student works. The program will include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D and music by Jeremy Spindler and Christian Gentry, both Ph.D. candidates in composition at Brandeis University. The performance of Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony is part of a year-long series presenting all nine Beethoven symphonies – a worldwide musical first. Also on the program are works by Varese, Webern and Glinka.
October 4, 2009, 3:00 pm, Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Tickets — $10 – General Public; $5 Seniors and members of the Brandeis community Tickets can be bought online at: http://go.brandeis.edu/brandeistickets
