Take a journey around the world, from Mozart's "Prague" Symphony to Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, and across the ocean with Hovhaness And God Created Great Whales. The trip will conclude in Greenville with local composer Jon Grier's After Long Ventures, featuring Clemson piano professor Linda Li-Bleuel and clarinet instructor Eric Lapin.

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Including German, Russian, and American music from the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, the symphony orchestra will present a program of selections for both big and small orchestra. Clemson piano professor Linda Li-Bleuel and clarinet instructor Eric Lapin will also be featured.

The evening kicks off with Mozart’s Symphony no. 38, nicknamed “Prague,” to show appreciation for the city in the Czech Republic where Mozart was a superstar and admired performer.

This is followed by “After Long Ventures,” composed by Jon Jeffrey Grier, a music teacher at the Fine Arts Center magnet school of the arts in Greenville County. Piano and clarinet solos, performed by Li-Bleuel and Lapin respectively, take the role of a ship, while the chamber orchestra performers represent the “battering and mending” of the ship throughout the piece.

The second half of the program starts with“And God Created Great Whales” by Alan Hovhaness, written to bring attention to the plight of the whales in the 1960s when they were being harvested in alarming numbers across the seas. Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain,” which was brought to the public consciousness by Walt Disney’s 1939 groundbreaking animated work, “Fantasia,” will conclude the concert.