Selections from the U of I Symphony Orchestra 

On this week's Prairie Performances, Friday at 7 pm on WILL-FM 90.9, we hear a concert with the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra with music director and conductor, Donald Schleicher and graduate conducting assistant, Cameron May. On the program we will hear Hector Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, a work by U of I composer, Stephen Andrew Taylor titled Transfigurations for vocal soloists and orchestra, and the concluding piece titled First Symphony by Johannes Brahms in C minor, Op. 68.

Selections from the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra 

University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra
Donald Schleicher, music director and conductor
Cameron May, graduate assistant conductor
Ruth Kenney, sop
Kasey Stewart, mez;
Jerold Siena, ten
Ricardo Herrera, bs-bar

Hector Berlioz | Roman Carnival Overture

Steven Andrew Taylor | Transfiguration, for vocal soloists and orchestra

Johannes Brahms | Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68