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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The University of Iowa Symphony will present a concert of music for the small orchestra of the classical period, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12. The concert, which will feature an orchestra with a reduced string section and small number of wind instruments, will be held in the intimate Clapp Recital Hall instead of the orchestra's usual performance home in Hancher Auditorium.
William LaRue Jones will conduct the performance, which will feature cellist Charles Wendt as soloist in the Adagio with Variations of Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. Other works on the program will be the Overture to Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro"; Schubert's Symphony No.5 in B-flat major; and Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony of 1917.
The concert by the University Symphony will be the first major ensemble performance in Clapp Recital Hall since the recent improvements to the hall. Over the past year, several improvements were made, including news seats, a refinished stage floor, improved stage lighting and a new pit cover...