The UTC Symphony Orchestra
The UTC Symphony Orchestra will present its Spring Concert as a free livestreamed event with no audience on March 30 at 7:30 p.m. The link is https://livestream.com/utc/symphonyconcertspr21
Review for the performance:
The concert will open with award-winning local composer Ethan McGrath’s Fantasia on Sacred Harp Tunes. It is a hauntingly beautiful work that incorporates tunes from the songbook The Sacred Harp, which was compiled from songs of the early American shaped-note tradition that migrated from New England to the Deep South in the 1800’s and still exists. Also on the program are the first two movements of Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 in C Major,“the Great”.
This 45-member college/community orchestra includes university music majors and non-majors from UTC and Chattanooga State, UTC music faculty members, area music educators, and other talented amateur and professional musicians from the region. The orchestra is conducted by Sandy Morris.
About Ethan McGrath:
A composer of diverse influences, Ethan McGrath seeks to write music that will break down barriers between people and have the potential to convey meaning to anyone who hears it. Recent commissions have come from the American Choral Directors Association, the Voce Chamber Choir (London), and the New Consort (NYC). His compositions have been featured in workshops by Rodney Eichenberger and performed by such ensembles as the Choir of Trinity College (Cambridge), the Capitol Hearings (Washington, D.C.), and the Taipei Chamber Singers. He has received awards from the Musica Sacra Institute (Poland), Alfred Music, and the Southeastern Composers League, and his works have been published by Oxford University Press, Schott Music, and Beckenhorst Press, among others. Mr. McGrath studied composition with J. Bruce Ashton and Jonathan McNair at Southern Adventist University and UT Chattanooga, respectively, and earned an MMus in conducting at the University of Cambridge, where he studied under Stephen Layton and Timothy Brown, among others. For more information, visit www.ethanmcgrath.com.
Ethan McGrath