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Miami University Symphony Orchestra will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, in Hall Auditorium. Ricardo Averbach will conduct. Admission is free.
The orchestra will present its “wildest program ever,” according to Averbach, combining Brahms’ First Symphony with music by Oscar-winning composer A. R. Rahman from India.
By his own accounts, Brahms took 21 years to write his first symphony. It was nicknamed by some as “Beethoven’s 10th symphony,” with similarities between the main theme in the last movement and the famous “Ode to Joy” that appears in the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th symphony.
Rahman, named by Time magazine in 2009 as one of the 100 “World’s Most Influential People,” is best known in the West by his Oscar award-winning score for the movie “Slumdog Millionaire.” He has written music for than 50 movies and been commissioned to write the soundtrack for the next James Bond film.
The program will include an excerpt of “Lothlorien,” from the stage adaptation of “The Lord of the Rings” for which Rahman produced the musical score. Brian Diller (Miami ’07) wrote an orchestration for the piece “which was blessed by the composer and dedicated specially to the Miami University Orchestra,” Averbach said.
Averbach says he is “impressed by the openness of the students in trying something new” while handling musical styles that seem so far from each other and at the same time bring a sort of coherence to the whole program.
“We want to improve by getting what is best in music from the most diverse repertoire available,” Averbach said.
The performance is free and open to the public. For more information, call 529-3014.
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