LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Symphony will once again pay homage to moms with its popular annual Mother's Day symphony concert, set for Sunday, May 10.
The concert will be held at 3 p.m. at the Soper Reese Theater, 275 S. Main St., Lakeport.
It’s become a tradition in the last few years that the annual Mother’s Day concert of the 70-plus piece Lake County Symphony will tilt toward lighter fare than the usual classical music, and this year’s program will be no exception, according to the orchestra’s conductor John Parkinson.
The concert is sponsored by the Lake County Symphony Association, the nonprofit volunteer group that funds the symphony.
Program selection leans heavily on the music of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and the orchestra joins the rest of the nation in saluting the 60 year anniversary of their music in the film “The Sound of Music.”
Unfortunately Hammerstein was not there for the movie’s release, having died of cancer shortly after the play’s theater opening four years earlier.
Parkinson also has chosen selections from the duo’s other Broadway blockbusters including “The King and I” and “Oklahoma,” as well as music from Frank Loesser’s “Guys and Dolls,” “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, and “Phantom of the Opera” by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Hollywood, too, is not overlooked, with selections from the Columbia Pictures movie “Oliver” and Disney’s popular animated feature “Frozen.”
As is traditional with the Lake County Symphony – and indeed most orchestras of its type – the program will open with a performance of the Symphony Association Youth Orchestra conducted by Sue Condit.
She is maintaining the show business theme, with her young players performing a piece from the Paramount television series “Star Trek, The Next Generation,” entitled “The Inner Light,” and composed by James Kazik.
In the movie Captain Picard plays it on a brass Ressikan flute similar to a penny or tin whistle. In the youth concert the solo version will be played on a concert flute by Ethan Jones.
The final piece will be the theme music from Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” written by Klaus Badelt and arranged by Ted Ricketts.
Admission to the concert is $25 for general admission or $20 for symphony association members.
In addition there will be a full rehearsal at 11 a.m. to which youths under 18 are admitted free, with others paying only $5.
Because of the popularity of the annual Mother’s Day concert, advance reservations are suggested.
They can be made online at www.soperreesetheatre.com or by calling 707-263-0577.
Lake County Symphony plans annual Mother's Day symphony concert
- Connel Murray
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