The Gateway Festival Orchestra will conclude its 41st annual season of free summer performances with “Vienna’s Masters,” a concert emphasizing music of composers working in that city, at 7:30 p.m. July 25 in Brookings Quadrangle.
The orchestra is conducted by James Richards, professor of music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
The program will open with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 in D Major (“Haffner”) and also includes Beethoven’s rarely heard Music for a Knight’s Ballet, a lighthearted early work which, to parallel the dance, contains hunting, drinking and love songs, as well as a war dance.
Featured artist Paul Garritson, instructor in clarinet in WUSTL’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, will be the soloist in Carl Maria von Weber’s Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra.
The final work in the concert is Johannes Brahms’ popular Variations on a Theme of Haydn.
The Gateway Festival Orchestra was established in 1964 by William Schatzkamer, professor emeritus of piano, and other local musicians, in part to provide summer employment to members of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. The group originally performed on the downtown riverfront but relocated to WUSTL in 1970.
The public is encouraged to bring lawn seating. The rain location is Graham Chapel.
For more information, call 935-4841.