Elkhart County Symphony performs at Goshen College's Music Center

Andrew S. Hughes, South Bend Tribune
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GOSHEN — The Elkhart County Symphony performs at 4 p.m. Nov. 5 at Goshen College’s Music Center.

Titled “Pictures of Elkhart County,” the concert features guest soloist Derek Reeves, the principal violist for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and introduces assistant conductor Victoria Petrak.

Derek Reeves, the principal violist for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, performs Nov. 5, 2023, as the guest soloist for the Elkhart County Symphony at Goshen College’s Music Center.
Derek Reeves, the principal violist for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, performs Nov. 5, 2023, as the guest soloist for the Elkhart County Symphony at Goshen College’s Music Center.

The program includes Reeves performing Carl Maria von Weber’s Andante e rondo ongarese, Opus 35, and the first movement of Bohuslav Martinů’s Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra.

Victoria Petrak, the first-ever female director of the Goshen College Symphony Orchestra, makes her season debut as assistant conductor with the Elkhart County Symphony with a performance of Gabriela Ortiz’s “Kauyumari” in a concert Nov. 5, 2023, at Goshen College's Music Center.
Victoria Petrak, the first-ever female director of the Goshen College Symphony Orchestra, makes her season debut as assistant conductor with the Elkhart County Symphony with a performance of Gabriela Ortiz’s “Kauyumari” in a concert Nov. 5, 2023, at Goshen College's Music Center.

Petrak, the first-ever female director of the Goshen College Symphony Orchestra, makes her season debut as assistant conductor with the Elkhart County Symphony with a performance of Gabriela Ortiz’s “Kauyumari.”

Music director Soo Han conducts Maurice Ravel’s orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” with a backdrop of photos from around Elkhart County.

Soo Han is the music director for the Elkhart County Symphony.
Soo Han is the music director for the Elkhart County Symphony.

“Pictures at an Exhibition,” a suite for piano in 10 movements plus a recurring Promenade theme, was written in 1874 by composer Mussorgsky after the sudden death, at age 39, of his friend and renowned architect and painter Viktor Hartmann. The composition has gained broad recognition via orchestrations and arrangements produced by other composers and contemporary musicians, with Ravel’s 1922 adaptation for orchestra being the most recorded and performed.

Han and Reeves will also present a pre-concert conversation at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $27-$14.

For more information, call 574-293-4469 or visit thelerner.com.

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Multimedia concert exhibits 'Pictures of Elkhart County'