LAKEPORT — Lake County”s young musicians get the chance to show off their talents on Sunday when they gather at Soper Reese Theatre for a 3 p.m. concert.
The Clear Lake Performing Arts (CLPA) Youth Orchestra and the CLPA String Class will perform in a concert sponsored by CLPA, with Soper-Reese providing the venue free of charge.
Admission to the concert is free for those under 18 and $5 otherwise, which proceeds helping to defray costs of the concert as well as supporting CLPA”s youth music programs. Seating is on a “first come, first served” basis.
Susan Condit, music director and conductor of the orchestra, has selected a program appropriate to the talents of the musicians, opening with the K-2 Violin Class?1 playing two numbers, “Motorcycles Stopping on the D Ladder” and “Hot Cross Buns.”
The next Violin Class 1 follows with “Ode to Joy” and “Are You Sleeping” while Violin Class 2 presents the “Brandenburg Concerto No. 5” and “Terra Nova.”
All of the pieces are from the instructional, manual “String Explorer” by well-known music educators Andrew Dabczynski, Richard Meyer and Bob Phillips.
“These youngsters will provide much of the basis for good music in our county as they graduate into the youth orchestra and, hopefully, the symphony,” Condit said. “We sincerely hope the people in our community come to the concert to give them the recognition and encouragement they deserve.”
The full CLPA Youth Orchestra will introduce the first half of their program with Carold Nunez”s “M to the Third Power,” a mixture of melodic and harmonic forms in D minor.
It features rapid meter changes and shifting of accents, which makes for music that is interesting but also difficult to play, according to Condit.
The other numbers are “Tango Expressivo” by Matt Turner, “Cloudburst” by Carl Stommen, and the popular theme from “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” entitled “May It Be.”
The program”s first half will end with a special recognition of individual student awards and accomplishments as well as presentations of the Allegro Music Scholarships by local musician Thomas Ganong, who underwrites the awards.
The concert”s second half opens with “Rondo Alla Turca” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as arranged by Larry Clark, followed by “Theme from Canon in D” by Johann Pachelbel (arranged by John Caponegro), and another Mozart composition, Symphony No. 40 (also arranged by Caponegro).
“Crystallize” by fiddler Lindsey Stirling will feature a violin duet by concertmaster Clayton Rudiger and Edison Serena. The finale is the theme from “Les Miserables” written by Alain Boublil and Claude Michael Schonberg and arranged by Larry Moore.
Backing up the young musicians on the finale selection?will be guest performers from the Lake County Symphony, including violinists Andi Skelton and Sienna S”Zell, Jeff Ives (viola), Jerry Mundel (cello), , Austin Ison (bass), and Patricia Jekel (flute). Anne Barquist will also assist on piano.
