Mary Beth Orr

Mary Beth Orr is a horn player scheduled to appear as soloist with the Grand Rapids Symphony. The listed program pairs a newly commissioned work by Lydia Busler with Mozart's Symphony No. 40. Beyond this appearance, no verified biographical details are available in our records.

Listeners coming to this concert can expect to hear the horn in a featured role, likely alongside the orchestra in the piece by Lydia Busler, "Her Midnight Ride (The Tale of Sybil Ludington)," a Grand Rapids Symphony commission that tells the story of a young Revolutionary War era rider through music. The horn, with its warm, rounded tone, often carries melodic lines or signals fanfare-like calls, so listeners might listen for moments where the instrument seems to call out across the orchestra or echo distant horns. The second half of the program turns to Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor, a work built on restless, urgent string lines and sharp contrasts between tension and lyricism, giving a very different orchestral color from the horn feature that opens the evening.