Tuesday, October 21, 7:30 pm, McCain Auditorium
On October 21, the K-State Orchestra will help Manhattan celebrate its partner city connection with Dobřichovice in the Czech Republic. One of the highlights of the concert will be Dvořàk’s mature work, the Te Deum, sung by the Flint Hills Masterworks Chorale along with the Orchestra. Julie Yu is the director and Mary Ann Buhler is the pianist/organist for the Chorale.
The concert will open with the delightful Three Dances from The Bartered Bride by Smetana, followed by Martinu’s moving tribute to Lidice, a village obliterated by the Nazis. Following the Te Deum, an exciting and lovely ending to the concert will be four of Dvořàk’s Slavonic Dances, a perennial favorite of audiences. David Littrell will conduct the entire concert. Miss Czech of Kansas, in traditional Czech dress, and a speaker from the partner city committee will give short presentations. Czech students attending K-State on the Joseph and Elizabeth Barton-Dobenin Scholarship will also attend.
The concert is at 7:30 p.m. in McCain Auditorium and is free to the public.