Allentown Symphony Plays New and Recent Chamber Scores at Science Center

In Sunday’s (10/26) Lehigh Valley Press News (Pennsylvania), Karen El-Chaar writes, “ ‘This is the first of an exciting collaboration with the Da Vinci Science Center,’ says Diane Wittry, Allentown Symphony Orchestra (ASO) Music Director and Conductor. ‘ASO New Chamber Music Concert: Innovation’ is at 7 p.m. Oct. 28, Da Vinci Science Center, Allentown. Says ASO Composer-in-Residence Clarice Assad, ‘This season will offer a new kind of listening experience, where each work explores uncharted creative territory, weaving cutting edge technology with acoustic instruments, incorporating electronic soundscapes and visual elements, introducing newly invented instruments and reimagining the concert experience through unconventional formats.’ At the Da Vinci Center, an ASO string quartet, plus percussion and electric bass, will perform innovative compositions by Clarice Assad, English composer Anna Clyne and works by nine regional composers, including Andrew Ardizzoia, Muhlenberg College Associate Professor of Music and Director of Composition and Instrumental Studies, and Sean O’Boyle, Moravian University Artist in Residence. ‘This is contemporary chamber music at its most adventurous: a celebration of what happens when tradition meets experimentation,’ says Assad.”