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KONZEN TO DIRECT ELEMENTARY HONORS ORCHESTRA |
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April 06, 2009
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Dr. Richard Konzen, Grove City College professor of music and the College’s organist, will direct the Second Annual Elementary Honors Orchestra Festival hosted by Baldwin-Whitehall school district on April 17. The festival will be held at Baldwin High School.
Nine districts will participate in the festival this year – a major increase from three school districts last year. This year’s festival will feature students from the Baldwin-Whitehall, Mt. Lebanon, Quaker Valley, Brentwood, Upper St. Clair, Fox Chapel, Plum, West Jefferson Hills and McKeesport school districts. Alan Booth ’99, a music teacher at Whitehall and Paynter elementary schools and the festival’s organizer, expects approximately 80 students between third and fifth grade to participate.
Konzen directed Booth during his time at Grove City College. “I remember his passion for music, and felt that he would be an excellent guest director for the participating students,” Booth said.
Konzen will direct eight pieces, including “Gloria in Excelsis Deo,” by Antonio Vivaldi; “Shamrock Polkas,” arranged by Andrew Dabczynski; “Sleepers, Wake,” by Johann Sebastian Bach; and Ludwig Van Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony Finale.”
The inaugural festival was held at Paynter Elementary School and included 56 students from the Baldwin-Whitehall, Mt. Lebanon and Quaker Valley school districts.
Konzen is professor of music and the college organist at Grove City College, and has served on the faculty since 1992. He is the conductor of the Grove City College Symphony Orchestra, and has conducted the Hradec Kralove Philharmonic in the Czech Republic and led performances of Handel’s “Messiah” in Pittsburgh.
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