Richmond Symphony and the Richmond Symphony Chamber Chorus Present MOZART: SYMPHONY NO. 34, 2/23

Richmond, Virginia Announcing the first Metro Collection concert of the New Year-Mozart: Symphony No. 34 with the Richmond Symphony and the Richmond Symphony Chamber Chorus.

Let Mozart's bright and sunny Symphony No. 34 and Handel's regal anthems warm you up on Sunday, February 23 - 3pm at Randolph-Macon College's Blackwell Auditorium. Performed live under the baton of Erin R. Freeman, you won't want to miss this intimate and engaging chamber orchestra concert.

Join Conductor Erin R. Freeman at 2pm, one hour before the concert, for a pre-concert talk.

Adults $20, seniors $18, children $10, college students $5 at the door with a student ID. Tickets online at richmondsymphony.com or 1.800.514 ETIX.
This concert is sponsored by Raymond James.

About the Richmond Symphony

Founded in 1957, the Richmond Symphony is the largest performing arts organization in Central Virginia. The organization includes an orchestra of more than 70 professional musicians, the 150-voice Richmond Symphony Chorus and more than 200 students in the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra programs. Each season, more than 250,000 members of the community enjoy concerts, radio broadcasts, and educational outreach programs. The Richmond Symphony is partially funded by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

About the Richmond Symphony Chorus

James Erb organized the all-volunteer Richmond Symphony Chorus in 1971 for a December performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, under guest conductor Robert Shaw. For 36 years, Erb continued to direct and build the Chorus to reflect the Symphony's high standards. Erin Freeman assumed leadership of the Chorus at the start of its 2007-08 season.

The repertoire for its selected volunteer membership has included most of the standard repertoire for chorus and orchestra: Bach's St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion and Mass in B Minor, Haydn's Creation, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and Choral Fantasy, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Requiem settings by Mozart, Brahms, Verdi and Faure?, Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony and all of Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe?. Over the years they have also sung shorter choral-orchestral works by Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, Delius, Debussy, Barber, Britten, Richard Strauss, Vaughan Williams, Stravinsky, Olivier Messiaen and Luigi Dallapiccola.

Its annual December rendering of Handel's Messiah has become a Richmond holiday tradition, along with a seasonal Genworth Financial Symphony Pops concert and programs of light music. The chorus has several times sung Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in concert and in choreographed versions with the Richmond Ballet.

Recent projects have included a performance and recording of Mahler Symphony No. 8 with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, under the direction of JoAnn Falletta, a performance with the Richmond Symphony in the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and a recreation of the chorus's inaugural performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

To learn more about the Richmond Symphony Chorus, visit www.rschorus.com.

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