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March 15, 2009

Hanover Chamber Orchestra Ends Season with ‘Night Music’

By Warren Johnston
Valley News Staff Writer

The Hanover Chamber Orchestra’s inaugural independent season concludes at the Lebanon Opera House on Sunday with the performance of Night Music.

The orchestra, which was founded in 1976 and performed for years with the Handel Society at Dartmouth College, last year expanded and took on a year-around schedule. It also added a major outreach program for northern New Hampshire schools and communities. The orchestra left Hanover and established a home base at Plymouth State University and at the Lebanon Opera House.

“We’re very pleased with our first year,” orchestra President and Chairman Carlos Galvan said, noting that the orchestra met and exceeded the first year’s fundraising goals.

Music Director Dan Perkins, who teaches at Plymouth State and is the principal guest conductor of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet, conducts the 23-member orchestra’s program on Sunday.

The concert includes Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525, Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4, Arensky’s Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a and Bartok’s Divertimento.

The music begins at 3 p.m. Tickets are $22 for adults and $18 for those 65 and older and free for anyone under 18 who is accompanied by an adult. Call (603) 448-0400.