Park ICM Orchestra Fall Concert With Guest Conductor David Amado

The Orchestra of the International Center for Music at Park University will present its first concert of the 2023-24 season on Friday October 6th at 7:30 PM. The program will be under the direction of guest conductor David Amado, music director of the Florida Classical Orchestra, and who will be making his return engagement with the ICM Orchestra. Maestro Amado has selected works for string orchestra of Hugo Wolf, Ottorino Respighi, and Peter Tchaikovsky to open this 7th year of concerts by the orchestra.

The Austrian composer Hugo Wolf is best known for his solo songs with piano, although he composed in many genres. A great admirer of the music of Richard Wagner, Wolf’s style contains many of the Wagnerian traits of heavy chromaticism, elusive tonality, and great depth of emotion, yet combined with a sense of ease reminiscent of Schubert. Wolf combined his work as a composer with that of music critic, which was not always amenable to his personality. His Italian Serenade, heard on this concert, was written after he had decided to return exclusively to composition, and this decision might account for the work’s bright and witty style, in seeming contradiction to the weight of many of his songs.