The Sphinx Symphony Orchestra will perform Saturday evening at Detroit's Orchestra Hall.
(Photo: Kevin Kennedy)
It's one of the highlights of the annual classical-music calendar -- the Sphinx Competition
finals, to be held Saturday evening at Detroit's Orchestra Hall, in
which three superbly talented young classical musicians compete for a
$50,000 top prize.
The performance,
said Sphinx President and Artistic Director Afa Dworkin, will feature
the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra performing Leonard Bernstein’s "Candide
Overture" and "Ballade" by the 19th-century black composer Samuel
Coleridge Taylor.
"Taylor hasn’t been played much
at all," Dworkin said. "Many don’t know about him, but he was a
fantastic composer -- prolific and extraordinarily gifted."
Saturday's
performance will be the culmination of three days of competition, as
young black and Latino string players from across the U.S. compete
before an internationally renowned panel of judges.
Musicians are divided into two age categories -- secondary school students, and those 18-30.
The
three younger finalists will compete Friday, in a performance that's
already overbooked. Senior-division finalists will take the stage
Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Free tickets are still available (a $5 donation is
suggested), but you must reserve seats at sphinxmusic.org.
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