- November 27, 2024
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The Flagler Youth Orchestra will perform its last concert of the 2011-12 season 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, at the Flagler Auditorium, 5500 E. State Road 100.
Conductor Caren Umbarger and fellow teachers of the organization will lead five orchestras with 250 string musicians — a cross section of public, private and homeschooled students. The program will feature music by Bach, Mozart, Grieg, Lucas Drew and a special collaboration with members of the Flagler Palm Coast High School band for a performance of Dvorak’s “New World Symphony.”
Program Director Cheryl Tristam said the collaboration with the FPC students is exciting for the young musicians because it is rare that the strings get to work with winds and brass and vice versa.
“For them to have carved out the time to learn two more pieces of music is pretty significant,” Tristam said of the busy FPC band students.
The youth orchestra program began seven years ago and accepts students in third grade and older. The only cost is to pay for the instrument. For those students who meet the free lunch qualifications set by the school system, instrument funds are provided.
The Flagler Youth Orchestra is made possible by the Flagler County School District, with the support of the Friends of the Youth Orchestra, whose sole mission is to provide free music education after school to all interested Flagler children.
“I think the opportunities that a county offers to its children is a sign of its health,” Tristam said. “And the fact that we can, in Flagler County, say we provide instruction on string instruments, when so many other districts in the state of Florida can’t do it, says a lot about how we take care of our children.”
Adult tickets for the show are $6, with $1 from each ticket going to the auditorium’s Arts in Education Fund. Children 17 and under get in free. Call 437-7547.
