The Wartburg Community Symphony opens its 2013-14 season Saturday, Oct. 12, with rising star Hye-Jin Kim as guest violinist.
Kim will be the featured performer in the “Sizzling Strings” concert at 8 p.m. in Neumann Auditorium. She was the winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in 2009, the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in 2004 at 19, and has been touring internationally since 12. Her artistry has been described as “heart-stopping” by The Strad, the publication for string musicians.
Kim will perform Russian composer Alexander Glazunov’s “Violin Concerto,” a piece with several movements, but without pauses or numbered sections.
Tickets will be available at the door for $16.50 adult and $6.50 student. Wartburg College students are admitted free of charge by showing their student IDs. For ticket information, call 319-352-8691; 800-772-2085, ext. 8691; or email wcs@wartburg.edu. This is the first Wartburg Community Symphony concert that will have reserve seats.
The program also includes:
- The prelude to the opera “Loreley,” by Max Bruch, a German composer, that tells the story of an orphan whose lover kills himself, leaving Loreley eternally on her rock, calling young men to their doom.
- Ballet dances composed by Armenian Aram Khachaturian that have been used in numerous films, animated films, TV series, video games, and commercials. The ballet tells the story of a woman who discovers her husband’s treason, yet is haunted by patriotic convictions.
- “Fantasy Waltz” by Russian composer Mikhail Glinka written for piano and a decade later orchestrated for other instruments. It was lost, then re-orchestrated after another decade.
A reception follows the concert.
The Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation of Waterloo is supporting Kim’s performance. Attendees are invited to join the Association of the Wartburg Community Symphony. Memberships will be available in the lobby. Members are issued priority reserved seats and receive a tax-deductible gift credit.