SSMF Events Begin This Saturday

To kick off the month-long series of events, the Sewanee Summer Music Festival (SSMF) will present the first faculty chamber music concert at 5 p.m., Saturday, June 18, in Guerry Auditorium. On the program are pieces including Antonín Dvořák’s “Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22” and Franz Schubert’s “Two Marches caractéristiques for four hands, D.968b.”
In addition to the concert series, the SSMF will host Open Studio Masterclasses on Wednesday, June 22 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The public is invited to observe faculty mentoring the young musicians. Locations for the individual masterclasses will be posted in the lobby of Guerry Auditorium.
On Saturday, June 25, a second faculty chamber music concert will be held in Guerry Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Ingolf Dahl’s “Chorale Fantasy on Christ Lay in the Bonds of Death” and Schubert’s “String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D 956” will be performed. This faculty chamber concert is free and open to the public and will be conducted by Margery Deutsch of the Cumberland Orchesta and Danail Rachev of the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra.
The Cumberland Orchestra will play on Sunday, June 26 in Guerry Auditorium at 3 p.m., featuring pieces by Dimitri Kabalevsky, Aram Khachaturian and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Deutsch of the Cumberland Orchesta will serve as the conductor for the concert.
The Cumberland Orchestra will be followed by the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra with “Sensemayá” by Silvestre Revueltas and Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64. The Sewanee Symphony Orchestra will play at 4 p.m. No admission is required for children accompanied by an adult. Rachev of the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra will conduct the performance.
Tickets for the opening faculty chamber concert and the Sunday afternoon concert are available online for $15 each. Tickets will also be available in the lobby prior to each performance.
Concerts will also be available for viewing via UStream at <stream.tv/channel/sewanee-summer-music-festival> for those interested who are unable to attend the performances.
To purchase season or individual concert tickets or for more information about the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, visit <http://ssmf.sewanee.edu>.