Romantic Reflections
Romantic reflections
Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026
7:30 pm
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Greensboro Symphony Orchestra
Marjorie Bagley, violin
Christopher Dragon, Music Director
Brahms – Academic Festival Overture
Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending
Rachmaninov – Symphony No. 2
This performance is expected to last approximately two hours and ten minutes with one twenty-minute intermission.
Refreshments and restrooms are located in the orchestra, mezzanine, and balcony-level lobbies.
Join GSO Concertmaster Marjorie Bagley for an evening of Romantic masterworks. Experience the joyous energy of Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, the serene beauty of Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, and the sweeping passion of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2
Saturday, January 24, 2026
7:30 pm
Marjorie bagley
North Carolina native Marjorie Bagley has performed around the world since beginning her career at age nine as a soloist with the Winston-Salem Symphony and at fourteen with the North Carolina Symphony. After two decades elsewhere, she happily returned in 2009 to teach at UNCG and be closer to her family. She plays a violin crafted in 1708 by Milan’s Giovanni Grancino.
As a founding member and first violinist of the Arcata String Quartet for a decade, Marjorie performed in Wigmore Hall (London) and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall (New York). She’s indulged her taste for foreign travel and adventure while performing solo recitals and concertos in Korea, Moldova, South Africa, and Namibia and teaching master classes in Argentina and Chile. She enjoys working with living composers to perform and record contemporary music (published by the VOX, Albany, Equilibrium, and Summit labels).
Marjorie studied under Stephen Shipps, Joseph Gingold, and Pinchas Zukerman. She received chamber group coaching from the Tokyo and American Quartets and Isidore Cohen of the Beaux Arts Trio. She has performed with Joseph Silverstein, Ani Kavafian, members of the Emerson and Borromeo Quartets, and harpsichordist Kenneth Cooper.
Currently Professor of Violin at UNCG, Marjorie has held faculty positions at Ohio University and Utah State University. For eleven summers, Marjorie was on the faculty at the Brevard Music Festival in western North Carolina. Since 1997, she has performed with the Berkshire Bach Society in western New England. Other summers have included teaching positions at the Perlman Music Festival, the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and the International Music Academy in Plzen, Czech Republic.
Marjorie lives in Greensboro with her husband, UNCG Physics Professor, Ian Beatty, and their energetic kids, Eleanor Rose and twins, Lee Edwin and Josephine Ingeborg. When not busy teaching, they enjoy traveling, cooking, and adventuring outdoors, all of which is a bit different now with three little ones!
Additional Purchase Options
- In person // Greensboro Symphony Box Office (Weekdays from 10am – 4:30pm). The Greensboro Symphony’s box office is located in the Greensboro Cultural Center at 200 N. Davie Street, Suite 301.
- In person // Tanger Center Ticket Office (Tu-Sa, Noon-5pm). The Tanger Center’s ticket office is located at One Abe Brenner Pl., between Elm and Davie Streets.
- By phone // Weekdays from 10am – 4:30pm at (336) 335.5456, ext.224
Venue
STEVEN TANGER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
300 N. Elm Street at Abe Brenner Place
Greensboro, NC 27401
Parking
VIP Parking, purchasable with a series subscription, is available in the large surface lot directly behind the Tanger Center with access from Lindsay Street. The Bellemeade Street parking deck, accessed from Elm Street or Greene Street, is the nearest city deck; Church Street and Davie Street decks are other nearby options. Street parking is also available, free after 6pm.
Musicology Mixology
The Greensboro Symphony’s pre-concert talks, Musicology Mixology, share insights into the Masterworks program. The conductor and the guest artists frequently join in at the beginning of each presentation.
Musicology Mixology is held in the Koury Room on the third floor of the Tanger Center on the evening of each Masterworks concert. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. with the lecture component beginning at 6:45 p.m., prior to the 7:30 p.m. concert. A specialty cocktail tied to the concert program is available for purchase for each concert, and audience members can enjoy the concert even more by learning unique details about the works to be performed.
Frequent guest musicologists include Dr. Gregory Carroll, Dr. David Nelson, Dr. Joan Titus and Dr. Lorena Guillen of UNCG, and Dr. Wendy Looker of Guilford College.