Big band —
The approximately 90-member Kiev Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will perform at George Fox University for the first time Sept. 26. The orchestra performs classical masterpieces, American spirituals, jazz and Broadway numbers, and Ukrainian ethnic music — including many hymns that had been banned in Kiev for 70 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union
Twenty years ago, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a conductor named Roger McMurrin traveled to Kiev, Ukraine, to lead a local orchestra and 35 vocalists in a performance of Handel’s “Messiah.
