Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra will present a pair of programs at the Lied Center for Performing Arts this weekend. At 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, LSO will present “Melodies from Spain,” a classical concert of works from Spanish composers and non-Spanish composers influenced by Spain. After opening with Manuel de Falla’s El sombrero de tres picos (Three-Cornered Hat), LSO will feature principal clarinetist Diane Barger on Oscar Navarro’s III Concerto for Clarinet in B-flat/E-flat and Symphony Orchestra. After intermission, the program continues with two works from non-Spanish composers: George Bizet’s Carmen: Suite No.
2, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnole. “This program features various composers of different cultures demonstrating their take on the Spanish influence in Classical music,” LSO Music Director Edward Polochick said in a news release. People are also reading.
.. “De Falla is one of the most renowned Spanish composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, while Oscar Navarro is a contemporary Spanish composer.
Georges Bizet, who was French, set his most famous opera, Carmen, in Seville. And Rimsky-Korsakov applies his genius of orchestration to the wide color palette of Spanish instruments for a truly entertaining finale.” Tickets for Saturday's concert are $5 to $40 and are available at lincolnsymphony.
com . At 5 p.m.
Sunday, LSO will present “The Orchestra Moves,” a new program developed by Link Up, a music education program pr.
