Programming

Strings receive acclaim during this chamber concert. In time for spooky season, Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho String Orchestra chills listeners with screeching violins. Versatile composer John Williams’s Essay for Strings illustrates a mysterious symphonic texture. Jessie Montgomery’s Shift, Change, Turn was inspired by the changing of the seasons in life and nature. Showing off the expertise of Principal Cellist Sara Male, Franz Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major travels through a gentle, songlike movements to somber deviation.

Bernard Herrmann: Psycho, A Narrative for String Orchestra

John Williams: Essay for Strings

Jessie Montgomery: Shift, Change, Turn

Franz Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major

Artists

Lawrence Golan

Conductor
Lawrence Golan is in high demand across the United States and internationally.
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Sara Male

Principal Cello
Sara serves as the York Symphony’s Principal Cello and is an assistant professor of cello at Franklin & Marshall College.
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Pre-Concert Talk

On the night of classical concerts, Pre-Concert Talks will take place from the front of the Appell Center’s Strand Theatre stage at 6:30-7PM. Admission is free for all ticket holders. Assistant Conductor Rebekah O’Brien will take you on an enlightening journey of the forthcoming concert. We look forward to seeing you!