Observer and Eccentric: U-M's Life Sciences Orchestra to play a concert January 30

Posted on Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 1:34 p.m.

A glimpse of U-M's Life Sciences Orchestra during a 2011 rehearsal.

Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com file photo

The Observer and Eccentric recently published an article about the University of Michigan Life Sciences Orchestra, which gathers together local science and medical professionals, as well as U-M science alumni and medical students, who play musical instruments. (AnnArbor.com previously published a slideshow of the orchestra preparing for a 2011 concert.)

The group has a concert scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Hill Auditorium, and flutist and U-M music professor Amy Porter will play Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major.

Shostakovich and "a symphony by Mahler that combines everything from bird calls to German drinking songs" are also on the program.

Admission to the concert is free.