Community Concert: The Seven Nation Riff

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 5

Replay (American Premiere)
MusicaNova Composition Fellow
Fiona Ryan

With Musicians from
Tempe High Schools and the
Arizona School for the Arts

Sunday, October 30 at 4 PM
Central United Methodist Church
Central Avenue at Palm Lane, Phoenix
In the Phoenix Central Arts District
$20 General Admission
$15 Seniors and Students
Under 18 free w/paid admission
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The MusicaNova Orchestra opens its 2016-17 concert season with Anton Bruckner’s great Symphony No. 5, whose main theme was the inspiration for the iconic guitar riff in the White Stripes mega-hit “Seven Nation Army.  Listen to them together here.

Concert Program

  • Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 5 (Inspiration for the White Stripes hit Seven Nation Army)
  • Charles Gounod, Funeral March for a Marionette (theme of Alfred Hitchcock Presents)
  • Fiona Ryan, Replay (American Premiere) MusicaNova Composition Fellow, Dalhousie University
  • Featuring student musicians from Tempe high schools and the Arizona School for the Arts

MusicaNova Composition Fellow  Fiona Ryan was a founder of the Toy Piano Composers while obtaining her DMA from the University of Toronto.  She’s now on the faculty of the Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University in her native Halifax, Nova Scotia. MusicaNova’s Warren Cohen called her music “extremely skillful but it doesn’t take itself too seriously.”  Her piece Replay features a 37-key Schoenhut Traditional Deluxe Spinet Piano.  

MusicaNova Orchestra concerts are supported by grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture.

Arizona Commission on the Arts Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture

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