It has been more than 50 years since the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra has appeared in Brockport, but they will mark their highly-anticipated return with a concert at SUNY Brockport on Friday, October 13, at 7:30 pm. The program – as befits a Friday the 13th in October – will be delightfully spooky and ghoulish, with a sprinkling of movie music magic. The concert will take place at the Tower Fine Arts Center, 180 Holley Street, Brockport. Ticket prices are $17/general, $12/senior citizens, Brockport alumni, faculty, and staff, and $9/students, and are available online at http://www.fineartstix.brockport.edu, by calling 585-395-2787, or in person at the Tower box office.
The evening’s program will happily haunt audiences of all ages. It includes, amongst other works, favorites from the light classical repertoire such as “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and “A Night on Bald Mountain” – both familiar from Disney’s Fantasia – as well as “The Witch’s Ride” from Hansel and Gretel, and de Falla’s “Ritual Fire Dance” from El amor brujo. Younger audiences might be more familiar with selections from the scores of the blockbuster movies Frozen, Spider-man, and Star Wars.
At their Brockport concert, the BPO will be under the leadership of Fernanda Lastra, the orchestra’s Conductor Diversity Fellow. Lastra, who hails from Argentina, serves as the assistant conductor, cover conductor, and the main conductor for the BPO Kids series and Music for Youth concerts. She also serves as a member of the BPO’s artistic team, music education committee, and Diversity Council, among other responsibilities.
“It is an honor to present our musical neighbors from west of campus,” shares Stuart Ira Soloway, the manager of the Fine Arts Series at SUNY Brockport. “Their reputation as a world-class orchestra precedes them, and I am looking forward to welcoming audiences from east and west of the campus to what promises to be a ‘spook-tacular’ concert.”
The BPO’s last appearance in Brockport was in September 1969.
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