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Reminder: SMSO presents ‘Music For The Young at Heart’ This Saturday

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2022 | 6:30PM
Margaret Beckley Upton Memorial Concert
Gates open at 5:30pm

Shadowland Pavilion at Silver Beach, St. Joseph

Join the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra Saturday and take a  musical trip  as they present music that will delight all ages!

From Star Wars to Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, Jurassic Park to Disney’s Frozen and Sleeping Beauty (and more!), these pieces will be instantly recognizable for both the young and the young at heart.

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This fun and family-friendly concert will provide entertainment for the whole family. Arrive early for a chance to meet and have your picture taken with some of your favorite characters in person!

NOTES FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR

“I think the combination of the music will be familiar especially for multiple generations of movie goers,” Music Director Matthew Aubin said. “With this concert, the music is meant to be super recognizable, but in its authentic form. It’s the same Star Wars music they hear in the movie; it’s something special, with that big brass sound.”

Aubin said that toward the end of the program some of the music being played was classical first and has been appropriated for movies.

“A good example is the Waltz from Sleeping Beauty. It was a part of the Tchaikovsky ballet before movies were invented; the music makes us feel young yet it is close to 150 years old,” he explained.

“Whenever we do a Pops concert we want to get people excited and be able to recognize that orchestra music is a part of their daily life, but they don’t know it, Aubin said. “If I can sprinkle in some of these crossover hits like Sleeping Beauty, it’s good.”

PROGRAM

John Williams, Superman March
John Williams, Jurassic Park Theme
Shore/Whitney,The Fellowship of the Ring Symphonic Suite
John Williams, Star Wars Suite: Imperial March, Princess Leia’s Theme, Main Title
John Williams, Harry’s Wondrous World; Aunt Marge’s Waltz from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Piotr Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake Suite, op.20a I. Scène & III. Danse des cygnes
Piotr Tchaikovsky, No. 5 Waltz from Sleeping Beauty Suite
Anderson-Lopez, Music from Frozen
Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt: Suite No.1, op.46 Mvts. 1 & 4
Lankey, MSU Fight Song
Elbel/Luck, Victors March
Michael J. Shea/John F. Shea, Notre Dame Victory March