Brockport Symphony Orchestra

The Brockport Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Conductor James Walker, returns with its Spring Concert on March 10, 7 p.m. at the Methodist Church on the corners of Erie and Main Streets. General admission is $5, seniors and students $4 and children under 12 enter free of charge. The program includes the Overture to "Impresario" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the "Palleas and Melisande Suite" by Gabriel Faure, the "Winter" segment of Antonio Vivaldi's Seasons and "Le Soir" by Franz Joseph Haydn.

Maestro Walker selected a versatile program that is sure to please the audience's varied taste of composers, representing different musical periods. Mozart's lighthearted "Impresario" opens the evening. It will be followed by the beautiful, sentimental "Palleas and Melisande Suite" that contains the impressive "Sicilienne" with Brockport's very own soloists, Cathy Gurner at the harp and flutist Sally Ann Hart, both of whom had delighted the audience with well-received performances in the past.

The second half of the concert will begin with the "Winter" scene of Vivaldi's spectacular masterpiece, of the four "Seasons." This program music so realistically evokes the blustery winter days that the audience is sure to feel the chill in the air. The demanding violin solo will be played by virtuoso Daniel Hung who recently appeared in Brockport as a co-performer of Vivaldi's Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins. The final work of the program is "Le Soir" by Haydn. It is the "Night" part of his three-symphony group depicting different times of a day, "Le Matin," (Morning), and "Le Midi" (Noon). Haydn composed them for his employer, Count Eszterhazy. "Le Soir," as well as the other pieces, eloquently demonstrate the composer's superb style and refined craftsmanship, which is well interpreted by the Brockport Symphony.

Violinist Daniel Hung, a native of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, has been the concertmaster of the Brockport Symphony for several seasons. He earned a master's degree and a Doctorate of Violin Performance at the Eastman School of Music. While Hung's main interest is chamber and orchestral playing and teaching, he has maintained a busy schedule of performing throughout the country with different orchestras and at music festivals.