The Bucks County Symphony Orchestra continues its 70th Anniversary Season with a festive winter concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19 at Central Bucks High School South in Warrington.
The performance will be conducted by Music Director José Luis Domínguez and Assistant Conductor Sebastian Grand.
The concert is sponsored by the Warren Family Foundation in memory of Tamara Warren, a much-admired BCSO cellist and long-time friend of the symphony.
The featured soloist is Julian Rhee, a violinist who joins the BCSO in a performance of Erich Korngold’s “Violin Concerto in D,” premiered in February 1947 by Jascha Heifetz and the St. Louis Symphony.
A graduate student at New England Conservatory, Rhee was recently awarded the Silver Medal at the highly prestigious International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. He has performed concertos with major symphony orchestras in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Indianapolis and San Diego.
The BCSO and Grand open the concert with the Prelude to Richard Wagner’s opera, “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” (“The Mastersingers of Nuremberg”). In an unusual twist, Wagner completed the opera’s Prelude in 1862 before commencing work on the rest of the musical score, which he subsequently completed in 1867.
Domínguez and the BCSO conclude this winter performance with “The Firebird Suite” by Igor Stravinsky.
Tickets, $25 for adults and $20 for seniors, can be purchased in Doylestown at Rutherford’s Camera Shop and the Doylestown Bookshop, or online at BucksCountySymphony.org. Students are admitted free. Call 215-348-7321 or visit BucksCountySymphony.org for information.
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