ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, April 27, 1996 TAG: 9604300053
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 7 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: TAZEWELL
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday at Tazewell High School in the final event of Southwest Virginia Community College's two-week Festival of the Arts program.
Gottfried Wagner will give a preconcert talk at 3 p.m. titled "Beethoven and Wagner: From Music as Freedom to Music as Salvation."
The speaker is the great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner, and great-great-grandson of composer Franz Liszt. He is a musicologist, writer and multi-media director. This year's festival has focused on German music and composers.
The symphony will be conducted by Robert McCashin of James Madison University. It will include selections for orchestra, piano and chorus featuring pianist Pavlina Dokovska and a community choral group from Buchanan, Tazewell and Russell counties in Virginia and Mercer County, W.Va.
Dokovska is pianist-in-residence at the community college and artistic director of the festival. She is a first-prize winner of France's Claude Debussy International Competition and Italy's International Piano Competition of Senigallia.
Karen Bureau, a soprano with the Metropolitan Opera performing in both European opera houses and the United States, will be guest soloist for the Wagner selections.
Last year's performance by the Roanoke Symphony was a standing-room-only concert, and festival organizers expect a similar turnout this year. Tickets are $5 in advance and $8 at the door. Advance tickets can be ordered by calling 964-7348.
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