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Symphony concert to feature celebrated musicians BY BRITTANY BULLINGTON THE GAMECOCK The USC Symphony will hold a concert at 7:30 p.m. this Tuesday at the Roger Center, featuring a host of talented musicians. Saxophonist Robert Young, violin ist Vadim Gluzman and composer Robert Ward will all perform. Symphony director Donald Portnoy has earned respect and recog nition as a guest conductor with ma jor and f-egional orchestras world wide. A graduate of Juilliard, Portnoy received his master’s from the Catholic University of America and his D.M.A. from the Peabody Conservatory. Tuesday night’s concert will mark the South Carolina premiere of Robert Ward’s “Symphony No. 7.” Ward is also the chairman of the Ditson Advisory Committee, which will present Portnoy with the Ditson’s Conductor Award. Established in 1945, the award honors conductors for their commitment to American mu sic. Previous recipients include Lenord Bernstein, JoAnn Falletta and James DePriest. Performing on the violin will be in ternational artist Vadim Gluzman. He will play Dvorak’s “Viblin Concerto, Op. 53.” Young will also play the saxo phone. This South Carolina native has been playing since he was 11, at tending the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, where he was awarded with the Serena and Robert Blocker Award. Young is a second year music education student and a member of the Excalibur Saxophone Quartet. The group recently per formed at the 23rd International Navy Band Saxophone Symposium and at the 2003 North American Saxophone Alliance Regional Conference, placing second at the 2003 MTNA Regional Chamber Music Competition as well. Young is the winner of the MTNA’s National Woodwind Competition and placed first in the Southeastern Young Artist Woodwind Competition and the North Greenville Woodwind Competition. Studying under Clifford Leaman, Young intends to continue his studies in either Michigan or Ohio after graduation. Tickets are available at the Carolina Coliseum Box Office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or through the charge line at 803-251-2222. Tickets may also be purchased online at http://www.capitoltickets.com. Admission is $18 for the public, $15 for senior citizens and USC faculty and staff members and $8 for students. For more information, go to www.mu sic.sc.edu/ea/orchestra. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK * Composer Robert Ward’s “Symphony No. 7”will make its S.C. premiere Tuesday night. eleases ■ — March 22-26 . „ .. . 7 SONS OF SOUL 7 Sons of Soul AMBULENCE LTD. Ambulence Ltd. ONE WAY OUT: LIVE AT THE BEACON THEATRE The Allman Brothers Band THIS DARKENED HEART All that Remains TILL DEATH DO US PART Cypress Hill GREATEST HITS Guns N Roses wusc CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 cial airwaves. WUSC can be heard by tuning to 90.5 FM in Columbia, or stream ing the channel from anywhere via the Internet at http://wusc.sc.edu. 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