LINCOLN
Welcome to the
The Lincoln Home
School Senior String Orchestra is a high-school-level string orchestra for
The
orchestra rehearses and performs in the sanctuary of Faith Bible Church. Faith Bible Church is located at 6201 S. 84th
St. Lincoln (just S. of Old Cheney Rd. and Lincoln Christian School)
2008 FALL SCHEDULE
(See detailed schedule
handed out at the “kickoff”)
·
KICKOFF! – Monday August
25th, 2008, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. – Orchestras kickoff and parent’s meeting at
Faith Bible Church
·
Monday, September 8th,
4:30 to 6:00 p.m. – weekly rehearsals start at Faith Bible Church (NOTE TIME
CHANGE!)
· Monday December 8th, 7:00 p.m. – Orchestras December Concert at Faith Bible Church.
Orchestra Administrative
Links:
·
Roster of Players, January 2007
·
Contact us (Senior String Orchestra)
ORCHESTRA PHOTOS AND INFORMATION ABOUT PREVIOUS
CONCERTS
(Fall 2006 rehearsal with special guest conductor Clark Potter)
(Spring 2007
rehearsal with special guest conductor Tyler White)
OLD CONCERT PROGRAMS
April 2008 Concert
This
concert, the first under new conductor Leonardo Lebas featured Ralph Vaughan
Williams beautiful Prelude on Rhosymedre, Sir Edward Elgar’s Serenade
for Strings, Op. 20, and ended with Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto in C
major for two flutes (RV 533) with homeschool soloists Christiana and
Elisabeth Wismer (flutes), Natalie Anderson (violoncello), and Helen Dowd
(harpsichord). The orchestra was excited to have Maestro Ed
Polochick of the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra
guest conduct a rehearsal this season! Click on the links below to hear MP3 files of the orchestra
playing:
Serenade
for Strings – Sir Edward Elgard
Concerto
for two flutes – Antonio Vivaldi
Prelude to Rhosymedre – Ralph Vaughan
Williams
Download PDF file
of the concert Program Notes
And when you’ve read all the
program notes be sure to try the Children’s Challenge
Sunday December
9th, 2007 Concert
This
concert, the last conducted by Martin Gaskell, included Gustav Holst’s Brook
Green suite, the world premiere of Reflections, a very
beautiful, rich, spacious, and evocative new composition by local homeschooled
high school composer Aaron Kessler, music from Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s Serenade
for Strings, and Giuseppe Torelli’s Christmas Concerto. The concert ended with another chance for
the audience to sing along with the orchestra in the triumphant Hallelujah
Chorus from George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Concert mistress Breanna Thornton was the
soloist in Reflections, and the Torelli Christmas Concerto
featured many soloists from the orchestra. Click
on the links below to hear MP3 files of the orchestra playing:
Brook
Green Suite
– Gustav Holst
Reflections – Aaron Kessler
Waltz from Serenade for Strings - Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky
Christmas Concerto - Giuseppe Torelli
Download PDF file
of the concert Program Notes
And when you’ve read all the
program notes be sure to try the Children’s
Challenge
May 6, 2007 Concert
(Martin Gaskell conducting the orchestra, May 6, 2007 concert)
The Senior Orchestra part of
the May 2007 program included W. A. Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik,
Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky’s Sonata for Trumpet and Organ (with solo
trumpet Mike Smith and organist Pam Penner), and world premieres of Evening
Twilight by homeschool high-school composer Evan Winter’s (who conducted
the premiere), and orchestra conductor Martin Gaskell’s Fantasia for Harp
and Orchestra (with harpist Heidi Huenefeld)
Hear the orchestra playing
in the May 2007 concert:
Eine kleine Nachtmusik – W. A. Mozart
1. Allegro
2. Romanza
3. Menuetto
4. Rondo
Sonata for Trumpet, Organ, and Strings – Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky
Evening Twilight – Evan
Winter
Fantasia
for Harp and Strings – Martin
Gaskell
March from Pi Acres
Suite – Martin Gaskell
Download PDF file
of the concert program notes
And when you’ve read all the
program notes be sure to try the Children's Challenge!
Click here to download the concert poster as a PDF file.
December 10, 2006 Concert
The concert featured Antonio
Vivaldi’s Autumn concerto with our concert mistress homeschool violin
soloist Breanna Thornton, Arcangelo Corelli’s Christmas Concerto
featuring soloists from the orchestra, J. S. Bach’s Air from his 3rd
Orchestral Suite, and his famous choral setting of Jesu, Joy of Man’s
Desiring with trombonist Brenda Ealey.
The concert ended with an audience sing-along of the Hallelujah
chorus from Handel’s Messiah accompanied by the orchestra.
Hear the orchestra playing
in the December 2006 concert:
(These are all Windows
Media Audio files. To hear these in the best quality you need Windows Media
Player version 10 or later. The quality is significantly poorer with version 9)
National Anthem (with Junior Orchestra)[1.5 Mb WMA file]
Vivaldi - "Autumn" - 1st
movement [5.2 Mb]
Vivaldi - "Autumn" - 2nd
movement [3.2 Mb]
Vivaldi - "Autumn" - 3rd
movement [4.2 Mb]
Corelli - "Christmas" concerto
[11.4 Mb]
Corelli - "Pastorale" from
"Christmas" concerto [4.1 Mb]
J. S. Bach - "Air" from 3rd
Orchestral Suite [3.8 Mb]
J. S. Bach - "Jesu, Joy of Man's
Desiring" [3.7 Mb]
Handel - "Hallelujah" chorus
[4.7 Mb]
(the Junior String
Orchestra part of the program can be heard on the Junior Orchestra website)
Download PDF file
of the concert program notes
And when you’ve read all the
program notes be sure to try the Children's Challenge!
Click here to download the concert poster as a PDF
file.
July 29, 2006 Concert
Hear some of the music
from the July 2006 concert:
Finale
of "Pi Acres - A Nebraska
Suite" at the 2006 summer concert [6 Mb
Windows Media Audio (WMA) file]
An excerpt from the
"Windy Hill Suite" at a rehearsal for the same concert [2.2 Mb Windows Media Audio (WMA) file]
For audio of the whole
program click here.
LINCOLN HOME SCHOOL JUNIOR STRING ORCHESTRA
There is also a Junior
Orchestra that rehearses at the same time as the Senior Orchestra. If you are interested in the Junior
Orchestra, visit the Junior Orchestra web page below:
·
Contact us (Junior String Orchestra)