About 90 students will come together to play three pieces at the “Scheherazade!” concert at 7:30 p.m. in the University Auditorium.
UF’s Symphony Orchestra has rehearsed about 20 hours throughout the past two months in preparation, orchestra president Will Teegarden said. The concert is free to students.
“It’s wonderful to see what happens when UF students who share a love and passion for music come together to make something beautiful,” said the 21-year-old music performance junior.
The main piece is by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, said professor of music performance Raymond Chobaz, who will conduct the orchestra at the concert.
The music alludes to the tale of a Persian prince who weds and kills a new woman each night to avenge his disloyal first wife. But one princess, Scheherazade, breaks the spell by telling a never ending story.
Other pieces the orchestra will perform at the concert include Charles Tomlinson Griffes’ “The Pleasure of Kubla Khan” and Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor.”
Soloist and UF violin professor Janna Lower said the three works represent the romantic genre.
“This is basically a retelling of legends in musical form,” Teegarden said. “It’s the same premise as going home and watching a Disney movie you haven’t seen in a while, because it’s exotic and yet familiar to you.”
