Culver City Symphony Orchestra April 2, 2011

LOS ANGELES, CA / March 8, 2011. The CULVER CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents its annual concert “On Our Way Up,” featuring winners of the orchestra sponsored Parness Young Artists Concerto Competition.

The concert is Saturday, April 2, 2011, 8:00P.M., at Veteran's Memorial Auditorium, 4117 Overland Avenue, Culver City; at the corner of Culver Boulevard and Overland Avenue. Free parking is available. This concert is under the direction of its Conductor-Frank Fetta.

There is no admission charge for this concert. This is a terrific program for parents and grandparents to bring their teenage and young children to experience their peers performing classical music.

The concert features winners in the Junior (Ages 14 and under) and Intermediate (Ages 15 to 18) Division.

On Our Way Up

Program:
Frank Fetta - Conductor

Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto, 2nd & 3rd mvts., (1878), Leonard Chong, violin, age 13
Sarasate, Ziguenerweisen (1878), Esther Kim, violin, age 17

Shostakovich, Cello Concerto No. 1, 1st Mvt., (1959), Seth Biagini, cello, age 17

Orchestral work: Brahms, Serenade, No. 1, Opus 11, D Major, (1858)

Donations and membership to the Westchester Symphony Society, Inc. are welcome. Members of the Westchester Symphony Society are entitled to reserved concert seating, and to a pre-concert talk given by Maestro Fetta. Membership is available at the concert.

The Westchester Symphony Society, Inc., presents The Culver City Symphony Orchestra, and produces the Parness Young Artists Fund Concerto Competition.
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra is now in its eleventh year performing in Culver City, and begins its 48th season. It has performed in many regional venues in the communities of Westchester, Venice, Los Angeles, San Gabriel, and now Culver City.

In addition to presenting the standard orchestra repertoire and concert dramatizations of operas, the orchestra has presented unique concerts devoted to Black American, Hispanic, and Women composers. It is the parent orchestra of the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony which performs at Burton Chace Park. The orchestra has performed at The Los Angeles Street Festival, on live-radio music broadcasts from the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

Frank Fetta, Conductor and Music Director, is well known for his conducting of orchestral music, ballet, and opera in Southern California as well as throughout the country including engagements with the San Diego Symphony, the Redlands Bowl Music Festival (of which he is director), the Fresno Philharmonic, the Torrance Symphony, the Nevada Opera Theater, and the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony.

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra
is Presented by:
The Westchester Symphony Society, Inc.
P. O. Box 4846
Culver City, CA 90231
www.culvercitysymphony.org