Looking for something different to do for Valentine’s Day? Take your sweetheart to the University of Tennessee Orchestra Program featuring the Symphony Orchestra, at 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14 in the Alumni Memorial Building James R. Cox Auditorium. Admission is free, and free parking is available near the Alumni Memorial Building.<\/p>\n
Conducting the program will be James Fellenbaum, director of orchestras, and Rachel Grubb, a senior in the university\u2019s College Scholars program majoring in violin and conducting.<\/p>\n
The program, entitled Orchestral Romance, will include two works from the Romantic era: Giuseppe Verdi’s Overture to La Forza del Destino<\/em> and Piotr Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 in c minor, “Little Russian.” Also featured on the program will be Wolfgang Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A Major, with UT Professor of Clarinet Gary Sperl, who will be performing on a rare Extended-Range Basset Clarinet, the instrument for which Mozart originally wrote his Concerto. The concert will last approximately one hour and 20 minutes.<\/p>\n Interested in a preview of the performance? The UT Symphony Orchestra will be performing part of their Orchestral Romance program at the Oak Ridge High School Auditorium on Wednesday, Feb.10 at 4 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n