Sunday, June 3, 2012
The event takes place at 3 p.m., June 3, St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas.
Music director Laura Thomas will lead the orchestra in a program featuring music written about and for springtime. The concert will include music by Canadian composer Alice Ho and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1. Also on the program will be On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring by Delius, Sibelius’ Spring Song and The Voices of Spring by Johann Strauss, Jr.
Assistant conductor Máté Szigeti will conduct the beautiful Brook Green Suite by Gustav Holst.
The Dundas Valley Orchestra recently performed with many of Mohawk College’s talented students at the annual music department Concerto Competition concert. Two of the soloists have been invited to perform again with the DVO on June 3. Violinists Marina Mulligan and Calypso McKnight will play the first movement of Mozart’s Concertone for Two Violins. Both young musicians are students of Sonia Vizante.
Admission is free. The DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more. Meet the musicians at the post-concert reception.
The Dundas Valley Orchestra is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area. The ensemble presents two major concerts each year and performs at Hamilton retirement homes and other community events. New players, especially string players, are welcome.
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Download a .pdf of the Concert Poster