The Bates College Orchestra, under the direction of William Matthews, the Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n
The program includes Maurice Ravel’s piano concerto in G major with soloist Breelyn Wilky, a Bates junior from Randolph, N.J.; Ernst Bloch’s Suite Hebraique<\/em> with Lewiston High School senior Rose Wollman, viola soloist; and Terry Riley’s 1964 work, In C.<\/em> Matthews calls In C<\/em> a landmark of American musical minimalism, that “consists of a glistening pulse on the highest register of a grand piano and 53 short melodic fragments to be played in time with that pulse.”<\/p>\n The three-movement Suite Hebraique<\/em> is a “deeply-felt and spiritual piece that reflects Bloch’s interest in Judaica, ” Matthews said.\u00a0The 1932 Ravel piano composition is cheerful and upbeat, combining “impressionistic splashes of orchestral color, Gershwinesque jazz phrases and a virtuosic solo piano part.”<\/p>\n Wollman, the daughter of Eric Wollman and Patricia Buls of Lewiston, has played with the Bates College Orchestra since 1996. A member of the 2000 National Honors Orchestra, Washington, D.C., she played with the Interlochen Arts Camp World Symphony Youth, All-State and All-Eastern orchestras in 1999. Wollman also has performed with the All-State Orchestra (1997-98), the Androscoggin Valley Community Orchestra (1995-97) and the Lewiston-Auburn Youth Orchestra (1994-95).<\/p>\n A student of Julia Adams of Portland, the young violist has played in a number of chamber ensembles, including the Portland String Quartet Summer Workshop. Wollman will give a solo recital at the Olin Arts Center in March when she will perform works by J.S. Bach, Rebecca Clark and Paul Hindemith.<\/p>\n Wilky, a biology and music major at Bates, studies piano with Bates artist in-residence Frank Glazer. She has played the piano for 10 years and participated in performances and competitions throughout high school, including a 1994 appearance with the Phoenix Symphony orchestra. At Bates, Wilky continues to teach and perform in ensembles as a soloist and as an accompanist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bates College Orchestra, under the direction of William Matthews, the Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39,31],"tags":[1367,2340,10830,6135,6889,9087,9244],"class_list":["post-20831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","category-lewiston-auburn","tag-bates-college-orchestra","tag-classical-music","tag-lewiston-auburn","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts","tag-william-matthews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92352,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions\/92352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}