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Guest conductor Gene Chang will lead the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra (LCSO) during live performances at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30, and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 1, in Atkinson Recital Hall, NMSU Music Building, 1075 N. Horseshoe St. on campus.
Tickets are $42.53-$52.83 and are available at https://lascrucessymphony.com/event/classics4/.
The Classics 4 concert will include “Le Tombeau de Couperin” by French computer, conductor and pianist Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), “Appalachian Spring” by American composer, conductor, writer, teacher and Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Aaron Copland (1900-90), “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten” by Arvo Pärt and Mozart’s “Symphony No. 36.”
Pärt, 86, is an Estonian composer. Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, (1913-76) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.
Chang is a Korean American conductor of symphonic, opera and chamber music. Visit www.genechangconductor.com.
LCSO’s Symphony Gala is June 10 at New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road. Tickets are $55. The event includes dinner, a cash bar, a DJ, dancing, a silent auction and the revealing of the symphony’s new director, who will succeed Lonnie Klein.
