Party!!!

LYS & LYCO

End of Year Party

Saturday, April 19^th

 

Between the Dress Rehearsal & Concert

LYS:  About 3:00 ¯ LYCO:  About 4:00 (or earlier)

Where: Pavilion behind the church @ 660 North 300 East

(down the street from the school within walking distance)

Bring your favorite potluck dish to share. 

Strings:  Picnic Side Dish (appetizer, salads, chips, fruit, veggies)

Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion:  Desserts (cakes, brownies, treats)

LYCO: Any of the above! (Side Dish or Dessert)

(If your item needs refrigeration, please bring it in a cooler.) 

We will supply whack ‘em noodle, drinks and service items.

Bring your picnic items with you following your dress rehearsal. 

There is only a short time between dress rehearsals and the concert. 

Please quickly pack up from dress rehearsal, leave instruments at the school, and walk even more quickly down to the park.

All musicians will need to return to the school at 4:30!

Schedule for Saturday April 19

Greetings!

So excited for this final concert! Everyone has worked so hard, and I think we are in for a Brahms miracle. Keep doing your part to make the miracle happen, and let's make amazing music this Saturday. Please contact me asap if you are for some reason not playing in the concert. I like the program to be accurate! 

All the festivities this Saturday are at or very near Bear River High School, in the Tremonton/Garland area. This is an historic concert. I don't believe LYS has ever performed at BRHS before. If you'd like to see the exact door you will need to enter for the auditorium, click here for a google map link. 

Here is a very close approximation of what will be happening, and when. This is subject to change, but please just be there and bring your instrument, concert attire, and your food assignment for the party and all will be amazing! (Flier with said food assignments for party will be coming with a separate email).

12 noon -- Doors open; early birds arrive and begin set-up (that's my call time, and whoever else wants to come help!)

12:30 call time for LYS rehearsal

12.45 LYS Rehearsal

2:15 call time for LYCO

2:30 LYCO joins LYS rehearsal for Lord of the Dance

3.00 LYS dismissed/LYCO rehearsal continues.

4:00 (or earlier) LYCO dismissed

3-4.30 social/end-of year party at pavilion (complete with volleyball net and baseball diamond) behind the the church at 660 North 300 East, Tremonton, for LYS (and LYCO when they arrive). Leave your instrument, extra stuff, etc, at the school. See flier and separate email for more details.

4:30 is the call time for concert. Please be on time so you can be dressed and ready. Dress is regular "Concert Black". If you are not sure what this means, check here on the website under Lincoln Youth Symphony "formal".

5:00 Concert

The concert will be over before 6:30 pm.

Questions? Reply to this email, or call/text me at 435.740.4335.

Julie Gardner

Facebook Event

If you are on Facebook, please use the following link to the event and share with your friend!

https://www.facebook.com/events/216267565189111/

Thanks!

Julie

Press Release: LYS & LYCO Season Finale

The Lincoln Youth Symphony with maestro Conrad Dunn and the Lincoln Youth Chamber Orchestra with maestro Amanda Kippen, will be performing their Season Finale Concert on Saturday, April 19, 5:00 pm, Bear River High School Auditorium, 1450 South Main, Garland, Utah. Admission is FREE thanks to the sponsorship of PetsFirst! Wellness Center. Musicians in both orchestras hail from all over Northern Utah, including Cache, Box Elder, and Weber Counties.

The Lincoln Youth Chamber Orchestra, a strings-only training orchestra, will open the concert with Nunez's M to the Third Power, Adkins/Epworth's Skyfall, one "secret" surprise piece, and Gliere's Russian Sailors' Dance.

The Lincoln Youth Symphony, a full symphony orchestra, will perform Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, then Joshua Musselman, a winner of the LYS annual concerto competition, will be our featured performer with MacDowell's Piano Concerto No. 2, First Movement, Larghetto Calmato. 

For the grand finale, the two orchestras will also combine to perform Hardiman's Lord of the Dance. The concert promises to provide a memorable, crowd-pleasing evening.

Soloist Josh Musselman began taking piano lessons at Utah State University's Youth Conservatory when he was eight years old. Since then he has studied with several different teachers, including USU's Brandon Lee, and Professors Gary Amano and Dennis Hirst. Josh's musical accomplishments include several Honorable Mentions at competitions such as the UMTA Concerto Competition and USU's Piano Festival competition. Josh also took first place at Mountain Crest High School's 2013 Young Artist Cup. In 2013 Josh received the Distinguished Young Performer award from Utah State. UMTA judges have complimented Josh's clarity and musicality, as well as his powerful volume.  Josh has been teaching piano lessons since he was 13 years old, and enjoys sharing his love of music with people of all ages.  He has accompanied other instrumentalists for competitions for the last two years, and played for weddings and other functions.  Josh also very much enjoys composing music.  His other loves beyond music include mountain biking, weight lifting, reading, scouting, and cooking.  

Lincoln Youth Symphony and Chamber Orchestra are projects of the Lake Bonneville Symphonic Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to supporting youth and adults in LYS, LYCO, and the Lake Bonneville Community Symphony, including the annual Messiah Sing-in each Christmas at the Brigham City Tabernacle. 

End of Season Party

Greetings!

As usual, the end of our LYS season has jumped up and surprised me!

We need to plan a party, and have less than two weeks to do it. 

Our final concert will be at Bear River High School in Tremonton (I will send out the schedule for the day in a separate email). The concert will be April 19th at 5 pm, and will be over by 6:30pm. 

Is there anyone in the Garland/Tremonton area that would be willing to host a few dozen (5 or 6) youth symphony (LYS) and chamber orchestra (LYCO) kids for a bring-a-treat to share end-of-season party from 7ish until 9 pm? Let me know if you are a Tremonton/Garland person and might be able to do this!

If you live elsewhere and want to be involved, please let me know so I can put you in touch with the amazing host of the fun party. It's always a highlight of the year.

Thanks so much!

Julie

Rehearsal Schedule

Greetings!

In case you missed the announcement, if you have the Ruslan and Ludmila by Glinka, do not worry about practicing it. We will play it another time. The only pieces we will be playing in the concert are the Brahms, the MacDowell, and Lord of the Dance.

Please be diligent about practicing the Academic Festival Overture by Brahms. If you haven't looked up the music and listened, you may follow this youtube link to hear it: http://youtu.be/52YCz27S7ZE. Some ideas:

1. Follow along in your music as you listen. (Active listening)

2. Just listen, over and over again, until you are really familiar with it. (passive listening -- what I'm doing right now!)

3. Practice on your own. Work on small sections. Don't try to practice the whole thing from beginning to end.

4. Set up a speaker and try playing along with the recording. (This is hard since you can't see the conductor!)

Here is the schedule for the next three weeks:

April 5, Regular Rehearsal, 8:30 to 11:00 am, Promontory School

(Tip: If you care, General Conference is rebroadcast at noon on KBYU.)

1. Mrs Horne will be there again to work with woodwinds and brass, combined.

2. I know this is Spring Break for several. Please let me know if you will be out of town, and my deepest gratitude to those who will be there! We need you if at all possible.

3. Our pianist, Josh Musselman, will be there to work on the MacDowell. Please prepare by listening to the recording, as described for the Brahms, above. Here is the link from a previous email:

MacDowell Piano Concerto No 2, First Movement

(Searched: MacDowell Piano Concerto 2)

http://youtu.be/s0caoJXIuXQ (This is a live recording of the whole concerto. We are only playing the first movement which ends at 14:43 on this video)

April 12, Regular Rehearsal, 8:30 to 11:30 am, Promontory School

This is our last regular rehearsal before the concert. Again, the pianist will be there. LYCO will also be invited to the last part of this rehearsal to practice Lord of the Dance, so please note that we are going until 11:30.

April 19, Final Rehearsals and Concert. 

The schedule for the day will be published soon via a separate email. Please block out all afternoon, 12:30 pm till 6:30 pm.

Did you know that www.lincolnyouthsymphony.com is a blog? All previous emails are published there, and they are searchable! Go check it out. :)

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who chose to be involved with the fundraiser in any way. We appreciate your support, and we hope you had an enjoyable evening, even though we see all sorts of things we could have done differently, we also enjoyed the evening and were overwhelmed by the show of support.

When we get final numbers of how much money was raised, we will let you know.

With gratitude,

Warmly,

Julie Gardner in behalf of the LBSS Board and the LYS and LYCO staff 

Spring Break

One more email. {sheepish grin}

We are not taking an LYS Spring Break.

Here's why.  We draw from too many places, and this year, there is no consensus on a weekend when everyone is off.

So, do what you're planning for your spring break. Come to LYS if you can. There will be rehearsal every week. Let me know when you will be gone so we don't worry about you, and we'll see you when you're here!

Please come to as many rehearsals as possible.

Thanks!
Julie

www.LincolnYouthSymphony.com

Only One More Concert

Greetings! 

It's another email. :)

Music

Today we collected music. If you were not at rehearsal today, please turn in the following no later than next week's rehearsal:

Egmont Overture

Bounty Hunter

Rosamunde Overture

Also Sprach Zarathustra

Mozart Piano Concerto

Hummel Trumpet Concerto

Vivaldi Violin Concerto

We also handed out Academic Festival Overture by Brahms. 

Here is a youtube link so you can listen and listen and listen and practice and stuff: http://youtu.be/tfhAZNlRa6A

This leaves the following in your folder:

Lord of the Dance

MacDowell Piano Concerto

Academic Festival Overture

Rehearsal Schedule 

Regular Rehearsals: March 15, 22, 29, April 5, 12, 8:30 to 11:00 am, Promontory School 

(Please note: We temporarily changed rehearsal ending times to 11:30. Ending time has now reverted to the original 11:00 am)

Final Rehearsal: April 19, 1-3 pm, Bear River High School Auditorium, 1450 S. Main Street. Garland, UT 84312

Final Concert: April 19, 5:00 pm, Bear River High School Auditorium

Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make our trip to Abravanel Hall run smoothly. You are all awesome. I hope you had a great time. I know I did. :)

Thanks to John Findlay for filling in today for Mr Dunn while he was out of town. 

Thanks to everyone who consistently helps with moving percussion, setting up chairs, stowing stands, and just being all-around wonderful people!

Have a great week! Let me know if you have any questions.

Julie Gardner

435 740 4335

Fundraiser

Greetings!

Okay, I have been remiss in bugging you about this. My fault. So here goes. This is really an enjoyable evening, with the silent auction, and also fresh bread and other door prizes. 

If you haven't turned in a Silent Auction item or purchased Gala tickets, there's still time. Email or text me (435.740.4335) if you sell more tickets so we can coordinate with the caterer. If you bring a silent auction item next week, we can still include it at the dinner that night.

My latest: Cover Up is donating a Box Elder hoodie and a Bear River hoodie! They are so cool. :)

Look around your house. See if there is something nice, and new, you can donate to the auction, or think it through and see if there is a service you can donate.

Please support the fundraiser if you can. 

Details:

What: 

Gala Fundraiser Dinner and Silent Auction

When: 

Saturday, March 15, 2014, 6 to 8 pm

Where: 

Brigham City Community/Senior Center, 24 North 300 West, Brigham City

Tickets:

$15 per plate, Iron Gate Grill catering

Why: 

General Operating Expenses for Lake Bonneville Symphonic Society

Who: 

Guests of the Lincoln Youth Symphony & Chamber Orchestras, and Lake Bonneville Community Symphony

To access the email I sent previously with other details, click here.