MORGANTOWN — The WVU Symphony Orchestra will take the stage for the first time this season on at 7:30 p.m. today at WVU’s Creative Arts Center.
As part of a salute to Leonard Bernstein on the 100th anniversary of his birth, WVUSO will perform the overture to “West Side Story,” Bernstein’s updated telling of the Romeo and Juliet story. A natural pairing with the “West Side Story Overture” is Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture,” Beethoven’s “Egmont Overture,” and Liszt’s Les Preludes.
There will be a pre-show talk, “Music for Survival,” connected with the 2018-2019 WVU Campus Read, “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel.
The pre-show talk begins at 6:30 p.m. and tickets for the concert are required to attend the talk.
WVUSO will perform in the Clay Theatre at the Creative Arts Center. Tickets for the concert are available on campus at the Mountainlair and Creative Arts Center box office locations (9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday), by calling 304-293-SHOW (7469) and online at ticketmaster.com. Special ticket pricing is available. Info: cac@mail.wvu.edu.
