Posted October 31, 2018
DAYTON, OHIO (October 31, 2018) – On Sunday, November 18, 2018 at 5 p.m., Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra (DPO) musicians, under the leadership of Artistic Director and Conductor Neal Gittleman, will travel to The Tabernacle Baptist Church, 380 South Broadway Street, Dayton, Ohio, to celebrate the human spirit through the universal medium of music with their first Stained Glass Series Concert of the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance 2018-2019 Vistas Season. This concert is free and open to the public with no ticket required.
The Dayton Philharmonic’s Stained Glass Concerts are part of a series of community outreach efforts called the Norma Ross Memorial Community Concerts in honor of the late Mrs. Norma Ross, a tireless advocate for music and minority youth. All Stained Glass Concerts are free with generous seating available. The 2018–2019 Stained Glass Series and Norma Ross Memorial Community Concerts are made possible by the Bob Ross Auto Group.
The 2018-2019 Stained Glass Concert Series will present concerts as follows:
Sunday, November 18, 2018, 5:00 p.m. at The Tabernacle Baptist Church, 380 South Broadway Street, Dayton, OH; (937) 228-6393
Sunday, February 10, 2019, 5:00 p.m. at Inspiration Church, 2900 Philadelphia Drive, Dayton, OH; (937) 496-5607
This year’s Stained Glass Concerts will feature Ludwig von Beethoven’s delightful Symphony No. 2. Beethoven’s Second Symphony falls quietly between his beloved first symphony and his acclaimed and inventive third symphony, Eroica. At the time he was writing Symphony No. 2, Beethoven was struggling with the fact that his hearing loss was certain and was rapidly worsening. However, that fact did not stop him from composing one of his most energetic and upbeat works. According to biographer Lewis Lockwood, Beethoven’s Second Symphony “…signaled that from now on in Beethoven’s works, power and lyricism in extreme forms were to be unleashed as never before…and that contemporaries, ready or not, would have to reshape their expectations to keep up with him.”
Between the first two and the last two movements of Beethoven’s masterwork, the DPO will honor the late American composer George Theophilus Walker by performing his 1946 work “Lyric for Strings.” In 1996, George Walker became the first African-American composer to receive the coveted Pulitzer Prize in Music for his beautiful work Lilacs for Voice and Orchestra. Walker passed away just two months ago on August 23, 2018. Up until the time of his death, “Lyric for Strings” remained one of the most-performed pieces of orchestral music by a living American composer.
This first Stained Glass Concert on November 18 will close with the jubilant “Shout for Joy,” to be performed by the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra musicians and The Tabernacle Baptist Church Choir. The DPO would like to thank The Tabernacle Baptist Church Pastor Reverend Tokunbo Adelekan for his warm welcome and his eagerness to be a part of the 2018-2019 Stained Glass Concert Series.
The DPO and The Tabernacle Baptist Church wish to extend an open invitation to the community of Dayton to enjoy a celebratory afternoon when classical and gospel music come together to unite our Dayton community.
For more information on this November 18 Stained Glass Concert, please call The Tabernacle Baptist Church at (937) 228-6393 or the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance at (937) 224-3521. For more information on the 2018-2019 Stained Glass Series, visit www.daytonperformingarts.org/1819-stained-glass.