University of Portland Orchestra concert to be held 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1

The University of Portland Orchestra will perform Saturday, Dec. 1 on campus, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd. The concert, set for Buckley Center Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.

The orchestra will perform its “Music for a Winter’s Evening, From Russia and Beyond” concert with a variety of classic works. They will perform Rimsky-Korsakov’s complete Christmas Eve Suite from his opera of the same name and Leontovych’s Carol of the Bells. Also featured will be Reed’s Russian Christmas Music, as well as excerpts from Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ Berlioz and Brahm’s There is a Rose in Flower.

For more information, please contact Jewell Yaguchi at 503-943-7228 or yaguchi@up.edu.

The University of Portland is an independently governed Catholic university guided by the Congregation of Holy Cross. U.S. News & World Report ranks the institution as one of the top ten regional universities in the West. It is the only school in Oregon to offer a College of Arts & Sciences, a graduate school, and nationally accredited programs in the schools of business, education, engineering, and nursing.

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