St. Matthew’s Music Guild continues its 24th anniversary season with a concert by the fully professional Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s, under the direction of Thomas Neenan, on Friday, November 14, at 8 p.m. at the church, 1031 Bienveneda Ave. The concert will feature familiar favorites by Felix Mendelssohn, Jean Sibelius, Richard Wagner and Dag Wiren. The program includes Mendelssohn’s lyrical Violin Concerto in E Minor with soloist Yi-Huan Zhao, concertmaster of the St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra. Two Romantic tone poems’Richard Wagner’s ‘Siegfried Idyll’ (a Christmas present to his wife, Cosima) and ‘The Swan of Tuonela’ by Jean Sibelius’will also be presented. Both have become popular classics in the orchestral repertoire. Closing out the program will be Dag Wiren’s Serenade for Strings, a piece that may not be familiar by name to many people, but whose tuneful melodies are well known because of their use in radio and television advertising. Tickets are $25 at the door (no advance ticket sales or reservations). Information: 310-573-7422 or visit the Music Guild’s Web site: www.stmatthews.com/musicguild.
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