Side by Side Through the Ages

The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes will be joined by the Young People’s Orchestra, Hertzog Competition Winner Riley Hubisz, and Theatre students from SUNY Corning Community College in this concert entitled “Side by Side Through the Ages.” With musicians of all ages on stage, this concert is packed with side-by-side experiences. The OSFL’s

Young People’s Orchestra, directed by Margaret Matthews and Gary Chollet, will perform alongside the professional musicians of the OSFL in a moving and challenging suite of music from the Broadway hit West Side Story.

Four versions of Romeo and Juliet will be presented side by side. The play, written by William

Shakespeare around 1595, has inspired numerous creatives throughout the ages. It was set to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1869 as an overture-fantasy. The play was also set to music as a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev in 1935 and rewritten into two concert suites in 1936. The OSFL will perform Suite No. 2. Romeo and Juliet also inspired a later composer, Leonard Bernstein, along with director/choreographer Jerome Robbins and lyricist Stephen Sondheim to write a modern-day musical which premiered in Washington, DC and on Broadway in 1957. The OSFL will perform the music by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Bernstein on the March 10 concert, and students from SUNY CorningCommunity College Theatre Department will act out scenes interspersed with the music.Other pieces on the program include Florence Price’s Adoration and Otar Gordeli’s one-movement Concerto in D Major for flute and orchestra.

Ticket Information:
Children under age 18 get free admission with a ticketed adult. College student tickets are just $15 and general admission tickets are $50. Groups of 10 or more receive a 10% discount.

Family Night:
A sneak preview of the concert can be heard for free during the Corning Museum of Glass Family Night on Friday, March 8 from 6 to 8 PM. Get the “behind the scenes” view of the orchestras in action. Attendees can catch the Young People’s Orchestra rehearsal at 6:00 followed by “Meet the Musicians”with instrument demonstrations, “Meet the Maestro” and learn how to conduct, watch CCC Theatre students rehearse the sword fight scene, and hear the OSFL rehearsal.

Movie Night:
The related movie, Maestro, will be showing at the Regal Theater at the Arnot Mall in Horseheads, NY for a limited run prior to the OSFL’s concert. On Thursday, March 7 at 7:15 PM, join Maestro Toshiyuki Shimada, who will give an introduction to the movie based on his own personal experience working with his mentor, Maestro Leonard Bernstein, the biographical subject of the movie. Movie tickets are $6 and may be purchased at the Regal Theater that evening.