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Youngstown Symphony Society to host concert for area elementary students
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William D. Lewis | The Vindicator: Children will have an opportunity to travel the world through music during a concert Thursday arranged by, from left, Mary Place Thomas, Virginia Cooke, Carol Fithian, Ruth Stevenson, Mary Ann Fees and Mary Burkey, members of the Women’s Committee for Children’s Concerts.
YOUNGSTOWN
The Youngstown Symphony Society’s Women’s Committee for Children’s Concerts is finalizing plans for a 2011 Young People’s Concert to be presented at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. Thursday in the DeYor Performing Arts Center at Edward W. Powers Auditorium.
The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra will perform the “World Music Jam” concert for students in grades one through eight, featuring conductor Randall Craig Fleischer and his wife, Heidi Joyce.
The concert will give the students an opportunity to experience the sound of Japanese taiko drums, Latin American and Hungarian rhythms and American-style compositions and to become familiar with instruments played by musicians around the world.
The program will include the following:
“Fanfare for the Common Man” by Aaron Copland.
“Africa, Symphony No. 5, The Gathering Movement, No. 3” by Hayden Wayne.
“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by Solomon Linde.
“Irish Washerwoman” arranged by Richard Hayman.
“Symphony No. 2, opus 132” by Alan Hovhaness.
“Hungarian Dance No. 5” by Johannes Brahms.
“Hoe Down from Rodeo” by Aaron Copland.
“Mambo” from “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein.
“Hey Da Ba Boom” finale by Collin Walcott.
The concert is sponsored by the Women’s Committee for Children’s Concerts and underwritten in part by the Schwebel Baking Co. and the Youngstown Symphony Society.