Sheridan College orchestra presents Thanksgiving concert

The Sheridan College Symphony Orchestra will present “A Musical Thanksgiving: Music by Mozart, Spohr and Holst” on Nov. 18.

The concert will start at 7 p.m. in Kinnison Hall at the Whitney Center for the Arts and is open to the public either in-person or virtually.

The concert is free, but entrance tickets are required for both in-public and virtual performances.

Dr. Mark Elliot Bergman, who is director of strings at Sheridan College, said the members of the symphony will be socially distanced onstage and will wear specially designed masks where possible during the performance.

Bergman said each of the works to be performed was inspired by family or friends of the artist.

He said the program will feature pastoral music including Mozart’s Divertimento in D, Spohr’s Grand Nonetto and Holst’s Brook Green Suite. The Divertimento in D, he said, was inspired by the name day of Mozart’s sister. Spohr composed the Grand Nonetto for a friend and patron, and Holst named the Brook Green Suite after the place he and his wife were married.

For free tickets to either the live or virtual performance, go online to sheridan.edu/arts or call (307) 670-0360.