Art Alert: Alex Library Chamber Orchestra opens with favourite classics

Ahram Online, Wednesday 25 Sep 2013

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Chamber Orchestra inaugurates its new season on Saturday 28 September with compositions beloved to audiences of classical repertoire

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Chamber Orchestra
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Chamber Orchestra (Photo source: Orchestra's Facebook Page)

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Chamber Orchestra, with concert master Khaled El Showeikh, opens its new season on Saturday 28 September with a series of favourite classics.

The programme of the evening will include Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5, Bach's Air, Schubert's Ave Maria, Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, Handel's Passacaglia for Strings and Boccherini's Menuett, among other compositions.

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Chamber Orchestra, which consists of 16 string players, was founded in 2002 with the launch of the Arts Centre’s activities the same year.

Since its founding, the orchestra has performed a variety of concerts in Alexandria and Cairo -- often cooperating with renowned Egyptian and international soloists and conductors -- based on a repertoire replete with Western classical music, Arabic music and light compositions.

Programme:
Saturday 28 September at 7pm
Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Alexandria Conference Hall, Small Theatre, Alexandria
 

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