Southern Adventist University’s Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Laurie Redmer Minner, will present a concert on Sunday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Roland Hayes Auditorium located on University of Tennessee’s campus in Chattanooga.
This program will include Overture to “La Gazza Ladra” (The Thieving Magpie) by Giaochino Rossini, Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra by Robert Ward (featuring saxophone soloist Clinton Schmitt), and Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 73, by Johannes Brahms.
Clinton Schmitt plays the tenor saxophone and holds faculty positions at University of Tennessee, Southern Adventist University, and Tennessee Temple University.
He has performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Opera Company of Boston, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Portland (Maine) Orchestra, the Peerless John Philip Sousa Band, WGBH-FM radio in Boston, WFMT-FM in Chicago, and the New England Conservatory Orchestra.
This concert is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, call 423-236-2164.