Community Orchestra Spring Concert on April 28

MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown Community Orchestra, supported by the WVU School of Music’s Community Music Program, will present its Spring Concert on April 28. The 5 p.m. concert is free and will be held in the Lyell B Clay Concert Theatre of the WVU Creative Arts Center.
Karen Taddie, coordinator of the Community Music Program, said of the orchestra’s new home in the large concert theater, “We’re delighted that the orchestra’s large following has caused us to outgrow our old space. We’d like to encourage the Morgantown audience to bring out their families, friends, and neighbors. There’s plenty of room for everyone in the concert theater.
“And we are ever so grateful to the Dean of the College of Creative Arts — Dr. Keith Jackson, the director of the School of Music – Dr. Michael Ibrahim, and Mr .Jamie Whoolery and his entire operations staff, for allowing us use of this large beautiful space. We hope to someday outgrow this too.”
The orchestra, under the direction of André Januario, is a group of area amateur and professional musicians, college students, middle-school and high-school students, who rehearse, once a week, to share their love of music-making.
This concert will feature light sprightly music by Bizet, Faure, Gliere, Mozart, Massenet, and Vaughan Williams.
A reception, with an opportunity to meet the performers, will follow the concert, in the main lobby of the Creative Arts Center.