Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra

Sunday,  May 3, 2015
4 p.m.
Howard Performing Arts Center

The Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra is ready for spring! This concert is just one of the four public concerts LMYO performs each year. As one of several educational programs of the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, the Youth Orchestra provides an orchestral experience for talented young musicians in southwest Michigan. This outstanding musical experience is open to students between the 4th grade and college senior.

Selections to be performed are:

YOUTH SYMPHONY, Burke Lokey, conductor

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor “From the New World” by Antonin Dvorak
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor by Max Bruch
Soloist – Fangbo Yuan
                Crown of India Suite by Edward Elgar
                Piano Concerto in A Minor by Edvard Grieg
                                Soloist – Jesper Ke
               
ENCORE STRINGS, Timothy McFeeters, conductor

                Eine Kleine Nachmusik by W.A. Mozart, arr. Roy Phillippe
                Bach Suite for String Orchestra by Vernon Leidig
                An English Folksong by Terry McQuilken

CONCERT STRINGS, Beth Oeseburg, conductor

Blue Ridge Boogey by Bruce Chase
All Through the Night arr. Andrew Dabczynski
Overture to William Tell by Gioacchino Rossini, arr. Sandra Dackow

Tickets available at the door
Adults $5, Seniors $3, Students $3

The Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra is the capstone of the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra's educational outreach programs. Members of the Youth Symphony have the opportunity to participate in sectionals and rehearsals with members of the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, perform four concerts during the season, and to perform in chamber groups in the Mendel Center lobby before SMSO concerts. The Youth Orchestra program began in 1978 and over the past 35 years has retained the flexibility to adjust its focus to meet the changing needs of student musicians.

The Howard Performing Arts Center is located on the campus of Andrews University at 4160 E Campus Circle Drive, Berrien Springs, MI 49104.

For more information about the Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra, see the educational link at www.smso.org, or contact the Symphony office at 269-982-4030.