Orchestra to open season with ‘thrilling’ trio

The Northern Neck Orchestra will open its 2019-20 concert season November 15, featuring George Frideric Handel’s exuberant Music for the Royal Fireworks, Florence Price’s joyful Suite of Dances and Modest Mussorgsky’s grand Pictures at an Exhibition.

The performance will begin at 8 p.m. at the Lancaster Middle School Theater, 191 School Street, Kilmarnock. A pre-concert talk will begin at 7:15 p.m. by music director Michael Repper.

Tickets are $36 and can be purchased at www.northernneckorchestra.org or at the door. Students are admitted free with an online reservation. Season tickets for the three-concert series are $90.

The program features a trio of suites, one each from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, said Repper.

A Baroque classic, Handel’s Fireworks was well-received at its…