Each year, fourth- and fifth-grade students of the Long Beach Unified School District look forward to their musical field trip to the Orchestra's home venue, the Terrace Theater at the Performing Arts Center in downtown Long Beach.
Through the LBSO Elementary Ensemble program and the work of their own LBUSD music teachers, students have learned about the instruments of the orchestra and the families to which they belong. Now, at the home of their own Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, they experience, often for the first time, stirring orchestral works performed by world-class musicians.
This season's program, created and conducted by LBSO Music Director Enrique Arturo Diemecke, focuses on one of our natural resources, water – hence the title, "Rain, River, Sea and Ocean." Maestro Diemecke has invited the LBUSD All-District Orchestra to perform this season's concert side-by-side with the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra.
These Symphony Concerts for Young People are made possible by the generous support of the Earl B. and Loraine H. Miller Foundation and are not public performances.
Program:
Rain, River, Sea and Ocean
JOHANNES STRAUSS, JR....An der schönenblauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube)
RIMKSY-KORSAKOV............The Sea and Sinbad's Ship from Scheherazade
MENDELSSOHN.................The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
SMETANA..........................Vitava (The Moldau) from Ma Vlast (My Fatherland)
GROFE.............................Cloudburst from Grand Canyon Suite
HANDEL............................Hornpipe from Water Music
ROSAS.............................Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves)
Miller Foundation Symphony Concerts for Young People, January 18 and 19, 2012
