Concerto winners perform

If you’re in the mood to hear wonderful music, help out a great cause and support the very best of your musical peers, Davidson College Symphony Orchestra’s Concerts for a Cause/Concerto Winners’ Concert is the event to attend. Tomorrow night’s concert, which will benefit the American Stroke Foundation, presents a varied lineup of classical music that will provide a festive introduction to the holiday season. Performances will feature both the Davidson College Symphony Orchestra and two of the three winners of this year’s Concerto Competition.
The concert will open with two concertos in which competition winners Jeffrey Roth ’12 and Stephen Westerfield ’10 will be highlighted at the show. The third winner, Stephen Vogel ’11, will perform his organ piece at Christmas Vespers on December 6.
Roth, a pianist, will be featured in the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. This concerto was the “first to start out with the soloist playing alone,” said Roth. Earlier concertos traditionally had an orchestra introduction before the soloist entered.
Westerfield will perform Dvorak’s Cello Concerto—a famous cello concerto the composer wrote while living in New York.
The second half of the concert will feature two movements from Debussy’s Nocturnes: Nuages and Fêtes. Nocturnes, inspired by James McNeill Whistler’s series of Impressionistic paintings, is considered to be Debussy’s most popular and accessible work. Nuages, or Clouds, is “tranquil and placid,” while Fêtes, or Festivals, is “lively” and “military sounding,” according to Roth. The final piece of the concert is Debussy’s Dance, a tarantella that was originally written for the piano and arranged for orchestra by Maurice Ravel.
Tickets are free, but donations at the concert are welcome and will benefit the American Stroke Foundation, a non-profit organization, that provides post-rehabilitative care for stroke survivors. The concert takes place tomorrow night at 7:30 in Duke Family Performance Hall. 

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