Musicians to perform eerie music in pre-Halloween concert
Classical music with a Halloween theme will launch the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra and Master Chorale’s new season when it presents “Enchanted Orchestra,” in an 8 p.m. performance Oct. 27 at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center (LPAC), 750 W. Lancaster Blvd., Lancaster.
“The name of the performance ‘Enchanted Orchestra’ should give the audience a hint about what the performance will entail. Eerie music from these composers will fill the concert hall and transform it into ghostly place,” said David Newby, artistic director and conductor.
Dr. Berkeley Price, an accomplished clarinetist and director of the Antelope Valley College Concert Band, will join Newby on the podium for the performance. Also, students in the AVC Civic Orchestra will perform.
The concert will feature Leopold Stokowski’s popular arrangement of J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue, which was paired with the silent film “Phantom of the Opera.” The piece was originally written for organ.
Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastique" depicts a tormented artist's journey from unrequited love to despair, murder, the guillotine and into hell.
Best known from Walt Disney's "Fantasia," Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald
Mountain" depicts a witch's sabbath on St. John's Eve (midsummer) atop a bare mountain peak.
Tickets are available at the LPAC box office, (661) 723-5950 or online at www.avsomc.org or www.lpac.org. A pre-concert curtain raiser begins at 7 p.m.
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