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Artists:
Conor Bell, bassoon
George Jackson, conductor
The Amarillo Virtuosi, chamber orchestra

FEATURING WORKS FROM:
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”
Connor Chee – Concerto for Bassoon and String Orchestra
Adam Schoenberg – Breath
Strauss – Metamorphosen for 23 strings

A special evening of strings and solo bassoon, this concert will leave you reflecting on the themes of The Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Adam Schoenberg’s Breath, written during COVID and deeply personal Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss. We will also spotlight the Amarillo Symphony’s principal bassoonist Conor Bell with Connor Chee’s Concert for Bassoon. Marvel at the sonority of sound as George Jackson leads our strings in an evening of all the emotions.

A pretalk hosted by HPPR will begin at 6:45, followed by the concert at 7:30.