The UTC Symphony Orchestra presents the second concert of the 2001-2002
season Thursday, November 1, 2001 at 8 pm in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall
on the UTC campus.  The program will feature the music of UTC composer and
music faculty member Dr. Jonathan McNair.

Two movements of McNair's ballet "Millenium Nutcracker" will be featured,
along with works by Beethoven and Ketelby.  "Millenium Nutcracker" was
written in 2000 for Ballet Tennessee, but has never been performed live.
The two movements featured are "Schoolyard Scene" and "Native American
Variation and Finale", and will be conducted by Steven Bird, Music Director
of the UTC Symphony.

The program will also feature graduate conducting student David Creel
leading a performance of Beethoven's "Symphony no. 2 in D major".  This
graduate recital is the capstone experience for M.M. in Conducting majors
at UTC.

The program will open with the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner.  The
overture will be Ketelby's "In a Persian Market", used as the musical theme
of a recent Woody Allen movie.  This brief work is an excellent example of
British Orientalism, an artistic movement that flourished at the turn of
the 20th century.

The program is free and open to the public.  Parking is available near the
Lupton library.


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Dr. Steven Bird
Director of Orchestras
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga