LAKEPORT >> The annual Mother’s Day concert of the Lake County Symphony will feature popular music from the golden age of Broadway and film, along with a few timeless classics from Gilbert & Sullivan, on Sunday, May 8 at the Soper-Reese Theatre. Music Director and Conductor John Parkinson has put together a program that is lively, fun and engaging for Lake County mothers, and their mothers too.
As is traditional, the Lake County Youth Orchestra will open the concert, followed by the Symphony’s opening number “Showboat” by Jerome Kern and Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance” Overture. Next is a salute to Lerner and Loewe with music from their Broadway hit “Brigadoon.”Another Gilbert & Sullivan, the Overture from “The Mikado” follows, with another Lerner and Loewe smash hit “My Fair Lady” with such classic numbers as “I Could Have Danced all Night,” “On the Street where you live,” “I’ve Grown Accustomed to her Face” and “Get me to the Church on Time.”
Following intermission the full orchestra returns with a brace of film songs including “I’ve Got You Under my Skin,” “The Shadow of your Smile,” “Night and Day” and “More,” — the them from the movie “Mondo Cane”
The show concludes with some of the orchestra’s leading lights showing their talent via a trio of instrumental classics by Leroy Anderson. They are “Fiddle Faddle,” highlighting the orchestra’s string section, followed by his “Clarinet Candy” featuring the Clarinet Duo of Nick Biondo and Peter Stanley, and ending with “Bugler’s Holiday” with the trumpet trio of Gary Miller, Dave Lindgren and John Smiraglia blowing the walls out.
The Mothers Day concert is a sellout nearly every year, and LCSA members are urged to get their reservations soon on-line at www,soperreesetheatre.com or phone 263 0577.
Tickets are $25 general admission, or $30 premium reserved.
The Soper-Reese Theatre’s doors open at 3 p.m. on May 8. In order to encourage greater youth interest, a full dress rehearsal is held at 11 a.m. with young people under 18 admitted free of charge, although adults may also attend for a fee of just $5.
