The Claremont Concert Orchestra and Concert Choir will perform an evening of Strauss, Brahms, and Haydn on Saturday, May 4, at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, May 5, at 3:00 p.m., at the Bridges Hall of Music on the Pomona College campus.
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music and dean of faculty at Scripps College, will conduct along with choral conductor Anna DeMichele, also a Scripps music professor. The program will include Richard Strauss’ Horn Concerto No.1, in E flat major, op. 11 with James Riehl on horn; Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn, in B flat, op.56a; and Missa in Angustiis, in D minor (Lord Nelson Mass) by Franz Joseph Haydn. Soloists performing in Missa in Angustiis will be MaryBeth Haag, soprano; Jane O’Donnell, mezzo-soprano; Graydon Beeks, tenor; and Lewis Landau, bass.
This concert is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. Donations of canned goods will be accepted for the West End Hunger Program: SOVA. For more information please contact the Scripps Music Department at (909) 621-8280.