Classical music will fill the evening air on Founder's Day at Sweet Briar College. The Blue Ridge Chamber Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Murchison Lane Auditorium of the Babcock Fine Arts Center. Conducted by Jonathan Green, dean of the College, the orchestra includes musicians from Lynchburg; Greensboro, N.C.; Roanoke; Harrisonburg; Charlottesville; and beyond.
The ensemble will perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 3; Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 with Nicholas Ross, SBC assistant professor music, as a soloist; and premiere "Ars Vitae," which Green composed in honor of the 20th anniversary of Pannell Gallery. The concert is free and open to the public.