The 40-member Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra and the 13-member Junior Strings ensemble, part of the Preparatory Music Program at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), will present a spring concert on Sunday, March 24, 2013, at 7 p.m., in EMU’s Lehman Auditoriu ...More
More than 100 string students, ages 3-18, performed at EMU on May 11. Click here for a slideshow! (Photos by Jim Bishop) Outside, the rain came down and the thunder boomed. Inside, the air wa ...More
It’s been 20 years of making youthful melodies, with no end in sight. The Preparatory Music Program will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a group concert 4 p.m. Sunday, May 11, in Lehman Auditorium. More than 100 string students, ages 3-18, will perform music from the Suzuki repertoire. The group includes violin, viola and cello students ...More
The Shenandoah Valley Youth Orchestra will present its spring concert 7 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 30 in Lehman Auditorium. The program will open with selections from the Junior Strings Ensemble, directed by Sharon M.D. Miller. They will join the full orchestra for an arrangement for an arrangement of the old Shaker song, "Simple Gift ...More
The (Shenandoah) hills will be alive with the sound of (string) music as a cooperative program between Harrisonburg City Schools and EMU begins this fall. The city school system is funding a strings instruction program through EMU’s Preparatory Music Program, part of the university’s music department. It will begin early ...More
Suzuki violin students join in performing “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” at an earlier concert in EMU’s Lehman Auditorium. Photo by Jim Bishop More than 100 young people will tak ...More
The Shenandoah Valley Youth Orchestra and Junior Strings ensemble will perform 7 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 25, in Lehman Auditorium. The 25-member orchestra, conducted by Maria Lorcas, will perform “Carmen Suite No. 1″ by Georges Bizet and “West Side Story Suite” by Leonard Bernstein. Ashley Wright will be featured soloist on the “Clarinet Concerto” by Wolf ...More
The grand finale at last spring’s Suzuki violin concert in Lehman Auditorium at EMU. Photo by Jim Bishop A Suzuki violin concert featuring more than 100 performers will be held 4 p.m. Su ...More
Preparatory Music instructor Anthony VanPelt guides his young charges through a practice session. Photo by Jim Bishop Sixty violin students, ages 4 to 18, will make beautiful music together 4 p.m. Sunday, May 15, ...More
