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Safari visits a symphony.


Byline: Performance notes by The Register-Guard

The Eugene Symphony will lead a `Symphonic Safari' for all ages at 7:30 p.m. March 19 at the Lane County Fairgrounds, 796 W. 13th Ave. Audience members will have the opportunity to walk through the orchestra while the musicians are playing.

The featured soloist will be South Eugene High School South Eugene High School is a public high school located in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was founded as Eugene High School around 1900, and was located at Willamette Street and West 11th Avenue in a brick building that later served as Eugene's city hall.  junior Sydnie Yao Reed, who won the violin division of last year's Oregon State Solo Contest. The Eugene Junior Orchestra and Cadet Orchestra also will play.

A fund-raiser for Arts Umbrella, which sponsors the orchestras, the event will include a carnival, food booths, a silent auction and a raffle.

Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for students (middle school through college). A family ticket also is available for $25 (for two adults and two students). Tickets will be sold at the door. For more information, call 484-0473.

THE OREGON BACH FESTIVAL The Oregon Bach Festival is an annual celebration of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, held in Eugene, Oregon in late June and early July. It was co-founded by German conductor Helmuth Rilling and the former president of the American Choral Directors Association, Royce Saltzman,  will launch a series of community singalongs of J.S. Bach's "Christmas" Oratorio at 4 p.m. today at the Central Presbyterian Church Located on the northeast corner of Brazos and Bois d'Arc (now Eighth Street), Central Presbyterian Church in Austin Texas traces its roots to the organization of the first Presbyterian church in Austin on Sunday, October 13, 1839. That event, conducted by Rev. , 555 E 15th Ave. The oratorio, which will be the focus of the festival's Discovery Series this summer, is a set of cantatas composed to celebrate six of the 23 days in the holiday liturgical season. John Jantzi will conduct Cantata 1 today. Local choral conductors will lead the singalongs, which are open to anyone regardless of singing experience or ability. Reservations are not required. Subsequent singalongs are scheduled for April 14 at Beall Hall at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities.  School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave., conducted by Sharon Paul (Cantata 6); May 19 at Central Lutheran Church, 1857 Potter St., conducted by ElRay Stewart Cook (Cantata 3); and June 9 at First Congregational Church First Congregational Church may refer to:
  • First Congregational Church (Porterville, California)
  • First Congregational Church (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
  • First Congregational Church (Denver, Colorado)
  • First Congregational Church (Manitou Springs, Colorado)
, 1050 E. 23rd Ave., conducted by Duane Karna (Cantata 4). Each event will begin at 4 p.m. Information: 346-5666.

THE OREGON DANCE PROJECT will present 10 new experimental works by local choreographers in a program set for 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Soreng Theatre at the Hult Center, Seventh and Willamette streets. Tickets are $16 through the Hult Center box office, 682-5000. Presenters: Oregon Dance Project choreographers Elise Moore and Kim Huber (`Recalling a Serenade" and "Rolling'), the Van Ummersen Dance Company (excerpt from "Meyer Biggs Personality Test" by Margo Van Ummersen), the Performers Project (Jennifer Knight-Dills' "Trigger'), Donna Briggs (`Reaction'), Cheryl Lemmer, the Lane Community College Dance Company, the BW Dancers and ZAPP ZAPP - Zero Assignment Parallel Processor. A virtual tree machine architecture in which a process tree is dynamically mapped onto a fixed, strongly connected network of processors communicating by message passing. .

THE EUGENE PEACE CHOIR and Soromundi Lesbian Chorus will sing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Florence Events Center, 715 Quince quince, shrub or small tree of the Asian genera Chaenomeles and Cydonia of the family Rosaceae (rose family). The common quince (Cydonia oblonga  St., Florence. Tickets are $9 each ($7 for students and seniors) through the center box office, (541) 997-1994.

SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL Springfield High School may refer to:
  • Springfield High School (Colorado) — Springfield, Colorado
  • Springfield High School (Illinois) — Springfield, Illinois
  • Springfield High School (Louisiana) — Springfield, Louisiana
 senior Jonathan Matthews has won the state Shakespeare Solo Competition sponsored by the Oregon branch of The English Speaking Union. The competition was held at the Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland. Matthews did a dramatic monologue from Act V of "Titus Andronicus." He will compete at Lincoln Center in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
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 in April for a scholarship to study theater this summer at Oxford University in England.
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