The UGA Performing Arts Center will present the Orchestre National de Lyon Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Music director Leonard Slatkin will conduct a program that includes the Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz and two works by Ravel, Sheherazade, ouverture de feerie and Tzigane.
The concert also will feature Slatkin’s own composition, Kinah, a musical elegy to his parents, famed Hollywood musicians Eleanor Aller and Felix Slatkin.
The Orchestre National de Lyon was founded in 1905 as the Societe des Grands Concerts de Lyon. In 1975, the orchestra’s own concert hall, Auditorium Maurice-Ravel, was opened, funded by the city of Lyon. It is one of the largest concert halls in France, with more than 2,000 seats, and it boasts outstanding acoustics.
Tickets for the concert are $31 to $72 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling the box office at 706-542-4400. UGA students can purchase tickets for $6 with a valid UGA ID, limit one ticket per student.
A pre-concert lecture will be offered 45 minutes prior to the performance in Ramsey Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center.
