The Orchestras: Ready to Help You Believe in Spring

The Ruth King Theatre is the setting; Friday, April 24 is the date.  At 7:30 p.m. weeks of practice will  be behind them, the tune up will be finished, and the musicians will open the 2009 Spring Orchestra Concert.

The Chamber orchestra begins the program with works of Chopin, Mozart, Monn, Weber and Beethoven.  Five Class I soloists, playing in their final Milton formal concert, highlight this part of the program: Jaclyn Siu, Kim Chang, Drew Douglas-Steele, Alisha Magnus-Louis, and Will Yu. The Chamber musicians will close this performance with the first movement of the Beethoven 5th Symphony.

The concert then features Milton’s full Orchestra.  Students will play music of Mendelssohn, Bruch, Erickson, Falla and Rodgers.  Two seniors are soloists during this section of the concert: Ryder Stroud and Stavros Condos. Building to the finale, the concert closes with the exciiting Spanish Dance of Manuel deFalla and a selection from the Broadway show, Carousel.

On Sunday, April 26, the vocalists come on stage. The Chamber Singers The Chamber Singers will perform the Rheinberger Stabat Mater accompanied by a student string ensemble, as well as works by diLasso and Thompson. The Glee Club will perform works by Dalglish, Callcott, Billings and Charpentier. William Billings wrote the song “I Am the Rose of Sharon” when he lived in Boston in the 18th century.  William Billings was a composer of note and a tanner by trade.  The girls in the Glee Club will perform “Reel a’Bouche,” a fast-moving dance tune that relies on vocal syllables imitating a fiddle or an accordian; “it’s a fund piece with a great beat,” according to music faculty member Louise Mundinger.  Finally the Gospel Choir will sing three songs: “He Reigns,” “Stomp,” and “I Will Bless the Lord at all Times.”

 

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