CONCERT COMBINATION : YOUNG PLAYERS, SINGERS WILL JOIN FORCES IN A.V.Byline: Daily News More than 120 young musicians and singers will combine their skills Sunday to perform classical selections, Latin hymns and Disney tunes. The 18-month-old Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Children's Choir and the 6-year-old Palmdale Youth Orchestra will team up for the first time for a concert at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. . ``The whole vision behind it was the celebration of performing arts, of the talented youth in the Antelope Valley,'' said Kasey Wilson, the choir's general manager. ``It's to draw attention to how much real talent there is in the Antelope Valley.'' ``Acclaim! An Annual Celebration of the Arts'' will begin at 6 p.m. Sunday at the center, 750 W. Lancaster Blvd. Tickets are $6. The two groups will perform together and individually, and will break out a few of their most capable members for special pieces, directors said. Preparing for the concert has been challenging for the youngsters, who range in age from 8 to 18 in the 50-piece orchestra and 7 to 16 in the 72-member choir, their leaders said. The choir members, who practice once a week year-round and extend their rehearsal days to three or four hours before major concerts, have learned dance steps to go with a 21-tune Disney medley they will sing, Wilson said. The orchestra members have learned to perform accompaniment for the singers, and to work with different directors. ``They've proven to be very adaptable and enthusiastic group,'' said orchestra director Hugh Munro Sir Hugh Thomas Munro (1856–1919) was a Scottish mountaineer who is best known for his list of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 metres), known as the Munros. Neely. ``I'm very proud of them, actually.'' The concert's joint pieces include Stephen Sondheim's ``Children Will Listen,'' with former Jones Intercable Jones Intercable was a Cable TV company founded by Glenn Jones. Jones, already a cable television veteran, bought his first cable system in Georgetown, Colorado after taking a $400 loan on his Volkswagen. In 1993 30% of the company was purchased by BCI Telecom Holdings, Ltd. News Director Alis Clausen as soloist. The orchestra's pieces include ``Hall of the Mountain King'' by Edvard Grieg, ``March of the Meistersingers'' by Richard Wagner and ``Fandango fandango (făndăng`gō), ancient Spanish dance, probably of Moorish origin, that came into Europe in the 17th cent. It is in triple time and is danced by a single couple to the accompaniment of castanets, guitar, and songs sung by the and Alborada'' by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Николай Андреевич . The orchestra's advanced strings will perform the first movement from Johann Sebastian Bach's ``Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor.'' Brothers Robert and Mike Keysers will be soloists on the Bach concerto. A flute quartet A flute quartet is a musical term for a type of chamber group. They are normally found in two forms: those consisting of a flute, a violin, a viola and a cello and those consisting of four flutes. will perform Claude Debussy's ``Sarabande sarabande Stately processional dance in triple metre popular in the French court and throughout Europe in the 17th–18th century. Of Spanish or Mexican origin, it began as a vigorous dance, set to lively music and castanets, for a double line of couples. .'' The children's choir will open with the Latin hymn ``Dona Nobis Pacem'' and ``Kyrie Eleison,'' and its concert choir - made up of 25 members of the children's choir - will sing the overture to Mozart's ``Marriage of Figaro.'' The full choir will sing and dance the Disney medley. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--Color only in AV edition) Musicians in the 50 -piece Palmdale Youth Orchestra, 8 to 18 years old, will perform works by Grieg, Wagner and Rimsky-Korsakov. (2--Color only in AV edition) Seventy-two singers belong to the Antelope Valley Children's Choir. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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