
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 19, 1991                   TAG: 9102190059
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: E6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Jeff DeBell
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SUNDAY CONCERT FEATURES MUSIC OF BACH, MOZART

Music by Johannes S. Bach and Wolfgang A. Mozart, including two arias by the latter, will be performed Sunday when the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra continues its Sunday With the Symphony concert series.

The performance will be in the Cave Spring High School auditorium at 3 p.m., with Victoria Bond conducting.

The concert will open with Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, which was first performed in London in 1844.

The Mozart arias are next on the program. They are "Per questa bella mano," which was written in the last year of the composer's life, and "Non piu andrai." The latter concludes the first act of Mozart's comic opera, "The Marriage of Figaro."

Wayne B. Kompelien will be the guest vocalist. Kompelien, a bass, teaches at Liberty University in Lynchburg. He has made a number of appearances in Roanoke, including roles in Southwest Virginia Opera productions of "The Magic Flute" and "La Boheme."

In his appearance with the orchestra, Kompelien will be replacing Philip Bond, the father of conductor Victoria Bond, who died recently.

William C. Johnston, principal bassist with the orchestra, will accompany Kompelien on "Per questa bella mano."

Following the intermission, the orchestra will perform Mozart's Symphony No. 29 in a Major. The symphony was written when Mozart was 18 and was inspired by a trip to Vienna with the his father in 1773-74.

Tickets to the Feb. 24 concert are $10 and $12. They can be reserved through the orchestra box office (343-9127) or bought at the door.

by CNB