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Symphony Announces Guest Conductor for April 15-16 
April 14, 2000 -- The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra concerts this weekend will be conducted by guest conductor Michael Palmer. Performances are on Saturday, April 15, at 8:15 p.m., and on Sunday, April 16, at 3:30 p.m. in Cabell Hall Auditorium. Named by the Saturday Review as "one of today's most outstanding American conductors," Palmer is one of the most highly regarded conductors of his generation. He is currently Music Director of the American Sinfonietta, Artistic Director of the Bellingham Festival of Music and Music Director of the orchestra at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. A gifted pianist as well as an outstanding conductor, Palmer will conduct the Symphony in Chopin's "Piano Concerto No. 2" with soloist Mimi Tung, Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and "Tre canzoni senza parole" by the eminent contemporary composer Bernard Rands. Tickets may be reserved by calling the Cabell Hall Box Office at 924-3984. Tickets are priced at $20 and $15 for adults. Student tickets are $10 or 10 ARTS$. The Box Office is open weekdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on concert weekends two hours prior to performance. A pre-concert lecture is given 45 minutes before each performance by the eminent professor Milos Velimirovic in the 200 seat auditorium at Minor Hall, across the colonnade from Cabell. This is Professor Velimirovic's twentieth season with the pre-concert lecture series. Pre-concert lectures are free to all ticket holders. |
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