The Virginia Symphony Orchestra has announced the four concerts that will make up its 2016-2017 Regent University Classics series.
The series, sponsored by Regent University and held on the school’s Virginia Beach campus, will begin Dec. 15 with Handel’s “Messiah” and continues with Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” in late January.
For ticket information, visit www.virginiasymphony.org. Here are more details on those concerts and the rest of the series:
The “Messiah,” 8 p.m. Dec. 15
- Robert Shoup, conductor
- Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus
- Handel: “Messiah”
“The Four Seasons,” 8 p.m. Jan. 28, 2017
- Benjamin Rous, conductor
- Vahn Armstrong, violin
- Simon Lapointe, violin
- Amanda Gates Armstrong, violin
- Elizabeth Coulter Vonderheide, violin
- David Vonderheide, trumpet
- Adam Gandolfo, trumpet
- Rachel Ordaz, piccolo
- Monteverdi: Toccata from “Orfeo”
- Vivaldi: “Spring”
- Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto RV 443 in C
- Vivaldi: “Summer”
- Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Trumpets
- Vivaldi: “Autum”
- Biber: Battalia
- Vivaldi: “Winter”
Intrigue & Idyll, 8 p.m. Feb. 25, 2017
- Benjamin Rous, conductor
- Yun Zhang, violin
- Mozart: Overture to “The Abduction from the Seraglio”
- Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, “The Turkish”
- Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D Major
Roots: the British Isles, 8 p.m. May 13, 2017
- Benjamin Rous, conductor
- Arnold: “Tam o’Shanter” Overture
- Britten: “Suite on English Folk Tunes”
- Beethoven/arr. Rous: “Irish Songs”
- Haydn: Symphony No. 101, “The Clock”
