Two A high school students featured in spring concert at SUNY-Orange on May 6

MIDDLETOWN — The SUNY-Orange Community Orchestra will perform their annual spring concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 6, in Orange Theater at Orange County Community College in Middletown. As winners of the college’s Fourth Annual Concerto Aria Contest, flautist Clare Herceg and violist Emily Moore will be playing with the orchestra. The concert will open with Borodin’s overture and Polovetsian Dances from his opera, “Prince Igor.” Although unfinished at the composer’s death, composers Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov have completed the opera. The overture features the brass section while the dances showcase the woodwinds. Bloch’s “Concertino for Solo Flute and Viola” will feature Herceg and Moore. The concert will close with Beethoven’s “Sixth Symphony in F Major (Pastoral).” Herceg performs with the Warwick Valley High School’s Wind Ensemble, Pep Band and Pit Orchestra. She has also played with the SUNY-Orange Community Orchestra, the All-County Band and Orchestra, and the New York Area All-State Band. Moore has performed with the New York Youth Symphony, Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, the SUNY-Orange Community Orchestra, and the Warwick Valley High School Orchestra and Pit Orchestra. Last summer, she participated in the New York State Summer School of the Arts, School of Orchestral Studies program, and worked with members of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. The concert is free, and the theater is handicap accessible. For further information, call 341-4787.