Executive Director of the Ashland Symphony Orchestra, Martha Buckner, and Conductor Michael Repper, stopped by the WRDL Studios on Friday, September 9 to preview the upcoming “Fanfare for a New Beginning” performance for the ASO. According the organization’s website, “Familiar, new-to-us, and grand – all words which can describe this opening concert of the ASO’s 53rd season and Music Director and Conductor Michael Repper’s debut season! Finlandia is bold and a perfect overture for what is to come. Many of Florence Price’s works were lost only to be uncovered in 2009. Composed in 1932, this performance of Ethiopia’s Shadow in America may be just the second time it will be heard in Ohio. The concert concludes with Brahms’ Symphony No.2, the final movement of which has been said, ‘…the blazing sunrise of the most athletic and ebulliently festive movement Brahms ever wrote’.” For a full list of concert and event schedules, please visit www.ashlandsymphony.org/schedule.

(Photo courtesy of Martha Buckner/AshlandSymphony.org)