{"id":832,"date":"2005-03-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=832"},"modified":"2005-03-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T05:00:00","slug":"youth-orchestra-serenades-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2005\/youth-orchestra-serenades-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Orchestra Serenades Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/music\/prepprog\/svys\">Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra<\/a> will present its spring concert 7 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 20, in Lehman Auditorium at Eastern Mennonite University.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-member Junior Strings ensemble, directed by Sharon M.D. Miller, will open the program with the third movement of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 by Bach and the &quot;Finale&quot; from Symphony No. 2 in C by Tchaikovsky.<\/p>\n<p>These intermediate string players come from Shenandoah, Rockingham and Augusta Counties, as well as Harrisonburg, New Market, Staunton and Waynesboro. Miller is the administrative director of the EMU <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/music\/prepprog\/\">Preparatory Music Program<\/a> where she also teaches Suzuki violin and viola, music education and Suzuki pedagogy courses. She has taught at EMU since 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The string members of the youth symphony will perform three movements of Corelli&#8217;s &quot;Concerto VIII&quot; featuring violinists Jessica Peck and Benjamin Roth as well as cellist Nathan Bontrager and Bergen White on harpsichord.<\/p>\n<p>The full orchestra, conducted by Maria Lorcas, will perform Mozart&#8217;s &quot;Overture to Don Giovanni,&quot; the &quot;Romanian Folk Dances&quot; by Bartok and two movements from Beethoven&#8217;s &quot;Symphony No. 7.&quot; Seven graduating seniors will be recognized at the concert, followed by a reception for the students and audience.<\/p>\n<p>The Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony consists of 37 members from a three-county area representing 11 public and private middle and high schools. Students are selected by audition.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Lorcas is in her third season as the youth symphony conductor.  She began her undergraduate studies in her native country of Venezuela and later received bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in music (violin performance) from Duquesne and Carnegie Mellon Universities, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Lorcas has been teaching privately and coaching orchestra strings since 1993.  She is also a trained Suzuki violin teacher, has a studio in the Preparatory Music Program and teaches in the Outreach Project.<\/p>\n<p>The Youth Symphony has been a part of the Shenandoah Valley Preparatory Music Program since 1990. Musical instruction is given to 310 students in the following areas:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/music\/prepprog\/instrumental\">Instrumental<\/a> (violin, viola, cello, piano, flute, clarinet, trumpet, guitar, Suzuki violin), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/music\/musikgarten\">Musikgarten<\/a> (ages 18 months to 6 years), and the Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra\/Junior Strings (grades 4-12), and the Violin Outreach Project (funded in part by<br \/>the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Arts Council of the Valley).<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the concert is a suggested $5 donation at the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra will present its spring concert 7 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 20, in Lehman Auditorium at Eastern Mennonite University. 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