Free concert sets tempo for BC3's fall lineup
The Pittsburgh Philharmonic will give visitors a taste of different countries and different times during a free concert Sunday at Butler County Community College's Succop Theater.
Free ice cream will be distributed after the concert.
The 55-member symphony orchestra will perform at 2 p.m., sponsored by Thompson-Miller Funeral Home, a prelude to the BC3 Cultural Center's five-event fall lineup.
The orchestra's 75-minute concert may include Brahms' “Academic Festival Overture,” Dvorak's “Slavonic Dances,” Rogers and Hammerstein's “The Sound of Music,” and Sousa's “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Four Graeter's Ice Cream flavors — raspberry chocolate chip, chocolate, vanilla and chocolate chip cookie dough — will be available free after the show.
BC3's fall Performing Artists Mini-Series begins Sept. 29 with Bodiography Contemporary Ballet, and Maria Caruso's restaging for the first time at BC3 of Martha Graham's iconic “Lamentation” solo.
The National Players, at 70 the country's oldest touring theater company, will stage Arthur Miller's “The Crucible” on Oct. 31.
The series also features Pittsburgh Philharmonic appearances Oct. 28, with “Haunted Hertz and Hidden Treasures” and “Holiday Pops” on Dec. 8.
BC3's Local Artists Mini-Series on Nov. 18 presents “Alexander Hamilton: the Man, the Myth, the Musical,” a lecture by former Butler area teacher Steve Cicero.
Tickets for BC3's Performing Artists Mini-Series, Local Artists Mini-Series and its Pittsburgh Philharmonic Mini-Series will be available Sunday at the Succop.
For more information, call 724-284-8505 or visit www.bc3.edu/succop-theater.
