Symphony Of The Lakes To Perform ‘Celebrations’ April 17
News Release
WINONA LAKE – Symphony of the Lakes will perform ‘Celebrations,’ a pops concert, at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 17, at the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center on the Grace College campus.
Dr. Ardis Faber will be the conductor for the program, which will also feature local artist Christi Ziebarth painting on stage during part of the performance.
The pops concert will be held at the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center.
Featured performers will include the Young Artist Competition winners from the 2020 and 2021 competitions. Graydon Brath, winner of the 2020 competition, will play Bottesini’s “Elegy in C” with the orchestra. Brath, a bassist, is a senior at Warsaw Community High School who has been playing bass since he was nine years old. He has played with youth symphonies in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Fort Wayne.
The winner of the 2021 competition, Mark Fu, will play the first movement of Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D major. A native of Chengdu, China, Fu is currently a junior at Culver Academies. He began playing piano at age four. After moving to Canada, he performed with a number of ensembles in the Pacific northwest, including earning second place in the British Columbia Music Festival.
Additional repertoire for the April 17 concert is rich and varied. It includes Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” excerpts from Bernstein’s “West Side Story,” Gershwin’s “American in Paris,” “Gabriel’s Oboe” from The Mission, and selections from Les Miserables, Henry Mancini, and more.
The concert will not be live-streamed, and attendance is limited to 400. Masks and social distanced seating are required. Tickets are $10 each and are available at the door, at the Wagon Wheel box office, or online at www.wagonwheelcenter.org.
The non-profit Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts encompasses four programs: the professional theater, Center Street Community Theatre, Wagon Wheel Jr., and the Symphony of the Lakes. A modified schedule for the resumption of programs is available on the Wagon Wheel’s Facebook page or at https://www.wagonwheelcenter.org/.
