The School of Music presents a special concert by the Ohio University Symphony Orchestra, Wednesday, October 18 at 8 p.m. in Templeton-Blackburn Memorial Auditorium, celebrating the inauguration of the 21st president, Dr. M. Duane Nellis, and the School of Music’s 100th anniversary. The orchestra will feature compositions written specifically for OHIO by two faculty emeriti, and perform selections from significant years in the University’s history.

The featured piece, American Rhapsody, was written in 1953 by Emeriti Professor, Erno von Dohnanyi, for the OHIO Orchestra, in celebration of the university’s sesquicentennial, a piece which combines classical style with references to American folk songs from the region. Rounding out the program will be Professor Emeritus Mark Phillips’ composition, Into The Streets, commissioned for the University’s Turning 200 celebration in 2004.

The concert program also includes Rossini’s overture to La Cenerentola, composed in 1817, Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain (1867), and Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, composed in the founding year of the School of Music, 1917.