February 20, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Weis Center for the Performing Arts
Commemorating International Women’s Day, The first concert in the Bucknell Orchestra Semester of Social Justice Series explores the music of great women composers. The concert opens with the overture to The Boatswain’s Mate by Ethel Smyth, British composer and suffragette. Flute soloist Leslie Cullen will perform Cécile Chaminade’s Concertino for Flute and Orchestra. Music from the first symphony of Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have a composition performed by a major orchestra, and Rachel Portman’s original film score to The Cider House Rules completes the program. Admission is free. This concert is made possible in part with support from the President’s Fund, the It Starts With Me Mini Grant, and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender.