SPRING MATINEE
Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.
at UNCW Kenan Auditorium
Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra
Steven Errante, conductor
Wilmington Symphony Junior Strings
Jane Tierney, director
Girls’ Choir of Wilmington
Sandy Errante, director
On Sunday afternoon, March 18, 2012, at 4:00 p.m. the Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra performs a Spring Matinee concert for young people and their families at Kenan Auditorium on the UNCW campus. Joining the Youth Orchestra will be the Wilmington Symphony Junior Strings, directed by Jane Tierney along with special guest The Girls Choir of Wilmington directed by Sandy Errante.
In a spotlighted role the Youth Orchestra first performs a few classics such as Mozart’s Overture to "The Magic Flute" and Saint-Saëns’ "Bacchanale" from Samson and Delilah before switching styles to "Two Races" from the movie Seabiscuit.” Shifting out of the spotlight the Youth Orchestra then accompanies the Girls' Choir of Wilmington in Schwartz’s "When You Believe" from Prince of Egypt, and Halley’s “Lord of All Hopefulness” and “Freedom Trilogy.” Halley’s “Freedom Trilogy” combines a Gregorian "Kyrie" with a South African marching song and the hymn-tune "Amazing Grace."
"The Youth Orchestra is showing its versatility in this program,” notes Conductor Steven Errante, adding “and our audience will be interested to know that the Saint-Saëns "Bacchanale" was the opening work on the first-ever Wilmington Symphony concert back in February of 1972, so it is played here by the Youth Orchestra at this concert forty years later.”
Sharing the spotlight on this Sunday afternoon performance is the Wilmington Symphony Junior Strings, a very talented group of middle school aged students who have been trained in school orchestra programs as well as in a variety of private studios. The Junior Strings will be performing “Turkish March” by Mozart, arranged by Merle Isaac, “Girl With the Flaxen Hair” by Claude Debussy and arranged by Deborah Baker Monday, and “Fantasia Espanola” by Soon Hee Newbold. “It is very rewarding to work with this age group,” says Junior Strings director Jane Tierney, “You never know what they will do or say! And there is so much energy in their playing.”
General admission tickets are $5 for adults, and free for youth 17 and under and will be available at the Kenan Auditorium Ticket Office beginning one hour before the concert begins.
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The Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra and Junior Strings are educational and outreach programs of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra. Youth Orchestra musicians are ninth- through twelfth-grade strings, winds, brass and percussion students, and Junior Strings are sixth- through eighth-grade string students who perform several concerts during the course of their current 2011- 2012 concert season.
The mission of the Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra and Junior Strings is to enrich the lives of Cape Fear area youth by providing talented young musicians with unique orchestral training and performing opportunities. New-member auditions will be held in late-August and early September for the fall semester.
The Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra and Junior Strings 2011-2012 season has received support from the Corning Incorporated Foundation, the Landfall Foundation, the Thursday Morning Music Club, and the Grassroots Arts Program of the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency.
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