Dist. 214’s best musical talent on stage Wednesday
The most accomplished musical talent from all six District 214 will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Forest View Educational Center, 2121 S. Goebbert Road, Arlington Heights. The concert is free.
Featured on the program are the District 214 Honors Choir, Honors Orchestra, Honors Band and the winner of this year’s District 214 Concerto Competition, violin soloist Alan Snow, a junior at John Hersey High School.
Conductors are:
Ÿ Elizabeth Magill, director of the Honors Symphony Orchestra, director of orchestras at Buffalo Grove High School, and director of the Junior Conservatory Orchestra at the Merit School of Music in Chicago.
Ÿ Tim Heck, retired District 214 choral director, clinician, vocal coach and guest conductor.
Ÿ Robert Rumbelow, director of bands at University of Illinois and conductor of the Illinois Wind Symphony, recognized as an exceptional guest conductor, clinician, arranger, composer and lecturer in the U.S. and abroad.
Ÿ Edward Jacobi Jr., director of bands at Buffalo Grove High School, is the Honors Band coordinator.
Ÿ Scott Casagrande, director of bands at John Hersey High School, is the Honors Orchestra winds and percussion coordinator. Casagrande will direct the Honors Orchestra brass and percussion in Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.”
Superintendent David Schuler will welcome the audience and Gary Parker, District 214 coordinator of fine arts, will be master of ceremonies.
The Honors Orchestra will perform Saint-Saens’ “Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso,” Op. 28, with featured violin soloist Alan Snow. Next, Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet,” Suites No. 1 and 2, Op. 64.
Accompanied by Forrest Cataldo, the Honors Choir will perform “Lamentations of Jeremiah” by Z. Randall Stroope, “Ani Ma’amin” (I Believe) arranged by John Leavitt, “I Am Not Yours” (poem by Sara Teasdale, music by David C. Dickau), and “Alleluia” (from “Songs of Faith”) by Paul Basler.
The Honors Band will play “Vienna Philharmoniker Fanfare” by Richard Strauss/Rumbelow; “O Magnum Mysterium” by Morten Lauridsen/Reynolds; “Canzona” by Peter Mennin, and Symphony in E-flat by Shafer Mahoney.
Band directors are: Ed Jacobi (BGHS); Ron Fiorito, Jr. (EGHS); Scott Casagrande and Tom Beckwith (JHHS); Chris Barnum (PHS); Christopher Buti and Joshua Stewart (RMHS); and Brian Logan and Mark Hiebert (WHS).
Choral directors are: Debora Utley (BGHS); Sarah Park (EGHS); Sara Michael (JHHS); Jennifer Troiano and Steve Colella (PHS); Jamey Kelley (RMHS); and Kirstin Snelten (WHS).
Orchestra directors are Elizabeth Magill (BGHS); Bill Baar (EGHS); Christine Douglas (JHHS); Patrick O’Connor (PHS); Joshua Stewart (RMHS); and Sarah Yun (WHS).