Baylor's Campus Orchestra in Concert

Baylor University’s 45-member Campus Orchestra will be joined by an additional seven musicians for a concert called “A Taste of Merry Olde England” on Monday, October 4, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall, located within the Glennis McCrary Music Building.
The Campus Orchestra is led by Conductor-in-Residence Stephen Heyde, and the graduate conductor is K. Trey Thompson of Haslet, Texas.
Opening the program will be the three-movement Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major by the great eighteenth-century English composer William Boyce. According to noted musicologist H. C. Robbins Landon, “William Boyce (1710-1779) is without a doubt England’s most talented composer after Purcell.”
Next, the Campus Orchestra will play the familiar Fantasia on “Greensleeves” by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged this exquisite orchestral miniature for strings, harp, and flutes from music he had used in the third act of his Shakespeare-inspired opera, Sir John in Love. The tune is best known, perhaps, in its Christmas carol guise as “What Child Is This?”
The program will close with English composer Gustav Holst’s Brook Green Suite, as led by K. Trey Thompson. Written in 1933, the three-movement Brook Green Suite is one of the final works that Holst wrote before his death the following year. The piece was composed for the orchestra of the St. Paul’s Girls’ School. It is thought to be named for the street on which the school was located, although another possibility is that the name was derived from the place where he and his wife were married.
This concert is free of charge and open to the public. It is also available for livestreaming at baylor.edu/music/live.