Skylands Youth Symphony offers spring concert this Sunday
Warwick The Skylands Youth Symphony will wrap up their current performing season with a Spring Concert at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 7, at the Calvary Baptist Church on Kings Highway in Warwick. The symphony orchestra will perform a repertoire of classical, movie score, and country style fiddling compositions. The chamber orchestra will perform classical works such as “Slavonic Dance Opus 46, No. 8” by Dvorak, along with a collection of works in classical style by contemporary composers. Both orchestras are under the direction of Keely Gould. Tickets at the door will be $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and students, and children under 10 are free. For concert information, call 973-875-2560. Gould is a graduate of the College of St. Rose and has earned a master’s in music education from the Central Connecticut State University. She has performed with the Orange County Music Educators Orchestra, the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, and numerous freelance projects. She is also a private violin teacher and a music educator in Warwick. Her dedication to music, and her students, was nationally recognized in April 2005 when she received the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation Award. This season’s events included a Winter Concert in January, a performance at the Sussex County Spring Fest in March, and participation in a fiddler’s workshop in April by conductor Christy Halligan of Warwick. In addition to performing concerts, the symphony offers music theory classes, music workshops, symphony trips, and scholarships. The symphony is made up of musicians from 10 to 18 years of age, who live in the region of Sussex County, N.J., or Orange County, N.Y., and have studied music for at least two years on their instrument. They must be able to read music and must audition. An Open House will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, at the Glen Meadow School in Vernon. Auditions will be held on Thursday, June 1. For an appointment, call 973-875-2560. The non-profit corporation, organized in the spring of 1997, is totally dependent on tuition, donations, fund raising and grants. Funding has been made available in part by the Sussex County Arts and Heritage Council.