The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra will hold its second Orchestral Series Concert of the 2022-23 season on November 19 at Ford Hall at Ithaca College, under the direction of Interim Music Director, Grant Cooper. The program will open with Rameau’s Overture from Zaïs and will feature the world premiere of local composer Sally Lamb McCune’s Spiral, a piece commissioned by the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra to honor the resilience of the orchestra, its patrons and wider community for continuing to come together in celebration of live music.
The second half of the program will showcase two works of Camille Saint-Saëns: the whimsical Carnival of the Animals and the powerful Symphony No. 2. Carnival of the Animals will include newly composed verses by Interim Music Director Grant Cooper and an appearance by the delightful piano duo, Muse Ye and Harris Anderson.
The CCO was founded in 1976 and is officially designated “Ithaca’s Orchestra.” Each season includes an Orchestral Series, Chamber Music Series, a Holiday concert, free Family Concerts, and the long-standing Willard Daetsch Youth Outreach Program, which earned the 2015 Yale Distinguished Music Educator award. In 2017, the CCO added a Youth Orchestra program for advanced students. In 2019, a new Diversity Career Fellowship program was established to provide opportunities for college students from communities that have been historically
The CCO will hold its Holiday Celebration concert on Saturday, December 17 at 7:30 pm, also in Ford Hall at Ithaca College.
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