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SOARING MELODIES

  • Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of WV One Clay Square Charleston, WV, 25301 United States (map)

Maurice Cohn, music director

OTTORINO RESPIGHI Gli Uccelli (The Birds)

SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Violin Concerto in G minor - Elena Urioste, violin

ANNA CLYNE This Midnight Hour

IGOR STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird with WVU Puppetry Department

Check out the inspiration of the WVU Puppetry Department below as they create the character puppets for the collaboration for Stravinsky’s Firebird.

"In sunburst yellow, Elena Urioste made a thoroughly engaging case for the Coleridge-Taylor concerto, her airy, silvery tone and fine filigree detail well matched to its melodic invention and elegant reveries. [...] Urioste’s ravishing cantabile touch made the most of a dominant solo part [...]

Boyd Tonkin, The Arts Desk; July 20, 2023

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