If you are looking for a symphonic experience that showcases Fairfield County's talented young professional musicians, the American Chamber Orchestra is the group for you.
This 65-member ensemble founded in 2003 by Music Director Christopher James Hisey and Associate Conductor Carl Serbell, will be performing this Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Fairfield. The program consists of Finlandia by Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in E-Minor by Felix Mendelssohn with soloist Edita Orlinyte, and Symphony #9 "From the New World", by Antonin Dvorak.
Recordings of Finlandia conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy and Malcolm Sargent, the Violin Concerto performed by Nathan Milstein, Michael Rabin, or Isaac Stern and the Symphony #9 conducted by Istvan Kertesz may be procured at the library.