{"id":180588,"date":"2026-04-30T20:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180588\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:46:07","slug":"university-of-scranton-string-orchestra-to-perform-on-friday-may-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180588\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Scranton String Orchestra to Perform on Friday, May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday,\u00a0May 8,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scranton.edu\/academics\/performance-music\/index.shtml\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Performance Music at The University of Scranton<\/a> will present a concert featuring the University&#8217;s String Orchestra. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Houlihan-McLean Center, Mulberry Street and Jefferson Avenue, downtown Scranton. Admission is\u00a0free\u00a0and the concert is open to the public, with seating on a first-come, first-seated basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe\u00a0concert will\u00a0take listeners on a journey through musical eras from baroque to\u00a0modern, highlighting some connecting works,&#8221; said Janelle Decker, Performance Music Executive Director and conductor.<\/p>\n<p>The program will feature music by\u00a0Karl Jenkins, Felix Mendelssohn, Giacomo Meyerbeer,\u00a0W. A.\u00a0Mozart, Vaclav\u00a0Nelhybel and Dmitri Shostakovich,\u00a0some of them in arrangements for string orchestra\u00a0and\u00a0others\u00a0in their original form.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Scranton String Orchestra is a\u00a035-plus-member ensemble comprised of members of the University community from majors and departments spanning the curriculum \u2014 most of them undergraduate students, none of whom are music majors \u2014 joined by a few graduate students, alumni and members of the faculty who are all brought together by their mutual love of music-making.<\/p>\n<p>The primary focus of Performance Music at The University of Scranton is its student choral and instrumental performing ensembles. There is no major in music at the University, and all enrolled Scranton students (undergraduate and graduate) are eligible for membership in the University Bands, University Performance Choirs, University String Orchestra and Ensembles and Steel Drum Ensemble. A\u00a0few\u00a0members of the faculty and\u00a0staff\u00a0and\u00a0alumni from the region also perform with the groups. Each year, hundreds of students participate in\u00a0the ensembles.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0additional\u00a0information on the concert, call 570-941-7624, email <a href=\"https:\/\/news.scranton.edu\/articles\/2026\/04\/mailto:music@scranton.edu\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">music@scranton.edu<\/a> or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scranton.edu\/academics\/performance-music\/index.shtml\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the University&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IF YOU GO:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What:\u00a0IN CONCERT: The University of Scranton\u00a0String Orchestra, presented by Performance Music at The University of Scranton<\/p>\n<p>When:\u00a07:30 p.m. Friday,\u00a0May 8,\u00a02026<\/p>\n<p>Where:\u00a0Houlihan-McLean Center, Mulberry Street and Jefferson Avenue, downtown Scranton<\/p>\n<p>Admission:\u00a0Free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday,\u00a0May 8,\u00a0Performance Music at The University of Scranton will present a concert featuring the University&#8217;s String Orchestra.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[12219,22592,178,180,179,80571,274],"class_list":["post-180588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-performance-music","tag-performing-arts","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-string-orchestra","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}