Rachel Grubb, a UT College Scholar majoring in violin and conducting, will conduct “Orchestral Romance” along with UT Director of Orchestras James Fellenbaum Feb. 10 and 14.

The University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra will present a free concert at the James R. Cox Auditorium of the Alumni Memorial Building at 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14.

The program, entitled "Orchestral Romance," will include two works from the Romantic era: Guiseppe Verdi's Overture to "La Forza del Destino" and Piotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Little Russian."

The concert will also feature UT Professor of Clarinet Gary Sperl's performance of Wolfgang Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Major; Sperl will be performing on a rare extended-range basset clarinet, the instrument for which Mozart originally wrote his concerto.

Conducting the program will be Director of Orchestras James Fellenbaum and Rachel Grubb, a senior in UT's College Scholars program, who is majoring in violin and conducting.

Also, the UT Symphony Orchestra will present "Orchestral Romance" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, at the Oak Ridge High School Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public.

For more information on either concert, call the UT School of Music at 865-974-8935.

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