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Weekend Highlight - Emory Symphony Orchestra
This weekend I took time out on Saturday night to enjoy the season opening concert of the Emory Symphony Orchestra.  The Emory Symphony Orchestra is composed of mostly students attending Emory University and majoring in Music.  Over 80% of the Emory Symphony Orchestra members are double majors in Music and Science preparing to become doctors, engineers and other professionals but maintaining their hearts for music.
    
The Saturday night concert featured classical works that are very familiar to music lovers.  The Emory Symphony Orchestra opened with Brahms' Academic Festival Overture.  The performance was a good warm up and prepared the packed audience (literally standing room only) for the next two pieces being performed.
The second piece was Maurice Ravel's 'Bolero.'  Filled with solo passages that featured all of the wind section leaders, the piece really exposes its listeners to the various sounds in an orchestra.  And the piece adds the tenox saxophone and the soprano saxophone which is a bit of a stretch for works written during the same period.  The performance of the 'Bolero' requires patience by its player and conductor as it starts with a very simple snare drum rhythm that maintains the tempo throughout the entire piece.  While the ... more

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