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March 3, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Carson-Dominguez Hills Symphony
Offers Concert the Whole Family Can Enjoy
What: Family Pops Concert
When: 8 p.m., Saturday, March
15
Where: California State University, Dominguez
Hills
University Theatre
(Carson, CA)— On Saturday,
March 15, the Carson-Dominguez Hills Symphony will present a Family
Pops Concert featuring popular classical and operatic music that
is sure to appeal to children of all ages. The free concert will
be performed at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre on the campus
of California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH).
The program will include Jacques Ibert’s Concertino da Camera,
a jazz-influenced upbeat piece; Gunther Schuller’s Journey
into Jazz, which includes a narrated story in words and music about
a boy named Peter and how he learns about jazz; Gail Kubik’s
Gerald McBoing Boing, a true favorite with children, written for
the Dr. Seuss animated short film about a boy who makes noise but
cannot speak; Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings — which
has been in many films and televisions shows including “Platoon,” “Amélie” and “The
Simpsons” — and several other popular opera arias.
The orchestra will be performing Journey into
Jazz and Gerald McBoing Boing to 3,000 school children in the Carson
Community
Center on Thursday, March 13 (corrected from original
posting that had Wed. March 12 as the date). The special youth concert is something
the symphony has been
doing
annually
each
spring for
many years.
Among the featured soloists for the evening will be fulltime CSUDH
music professor Richard Kravchak on saxophone in Concertino da
Camera, CSUDH part-time music professor James Gamer on trumpet
in Journey into Jazz, part-time music professor Joseph Mitchell
on percussion in Gerald McBoing Boing, and the winner of the Carson
Young Artist Soloist Competition, tenor Sang Kim in arias from
Tosca and Rigoletto. Kim is a music major at CSUDH.
A community collaboration for more than three decades, the Carson-Dominguez
Hills Symphony comprises, faculty, staff, students and alumni (both
non-music and music majors) from CSUDH, as well as people in the
community and professional musicians. Conducting the orchestra
since its inception in 1976 is Dr. Francis Steiner, CSUDH emerita
professor of music.
The concert is being performed with major
funding from the City of Carson Fine Arts and Historical Commission,
the American Federation
of Musicians Recording Industry’s Music Performance Trust
Fund, and with support from the CSUDH Division of Performing and
Digital Media Arts, and the Carson Symphony Association.
Admission and parking for the concert are free.
For information call the CSUDH Music Department at (310) 243-3543.
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About
CSU Dominguez Hills -- California
State University, Dominguez Hills is a highly diverse,
urban university located in the South Bay, primarily
serving the
Los Angeles metropolitan area. The university prides itself
on its outstanding faculty and friendly, student-centered
environment.
Known for excellence in teacher education, nursing, psychology,
business administration, and digital media arts, new degree
programs include computer science, criminal justice,
recreation and leisure
studies, social work, and communication disorders. On campus
is the Home Depot Center, a multi-purpose sports complex
that hosts
world-class soccer, tennis, track and field, lacrosse, and
cycling.
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