NNO concert to include piece by a Virginia-based composer

Adolphus Hailstork

The Northern Neck Orchestra (NNO) on Saturday, March 7, will present “Reformation” at the Lancaster Elementary School Theater, 191 School Street, Kilmarnock. A pre-concert talk will begin at 6:45 p.m. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is by season subscription or $40. Tickets will be available at northernneckorchestra.org and the door. Students are admitted free with an online registration.

NNO will present three African American composers, one a Virginia resident, reported Bud Ward.

The concert will open with Carlos Simon’s “AMEN!” beginning with what one reviewer calls an orchestral “rumble” before a series of individual instruments’ syncopated rhythms. The piece often is featured in sermons….

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