Orchestra features young artist
Orchestra features young artist
By: Clotilde M. Zehnder
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Posted by editor Tue Nov 30, 1999 00:00:00 PST
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0 responses 0 comments On May 14, the Tehachapi Community Orchestra gave its annual Mother’s Day concert at Jacobsen Junior High. The concert featured the winner of the 2006 Young Artist Competition winner, Cecilia Lay. The orchestra and Lay played Symphonie Espagnole by Edouard Lalo.
The audience was stunned at how well Lay played. Despite her age, Lay’s playing was like that of an experienced adult, full of intensity and passion. Lay received spontaneous applause.
Lay is 16 and has been playing the violin for 10 years. She has participated in various school orchestras, ensembles and talent shows, as well as the Bakersfield Youth Symphony. Lay attends Stockdale High School in Bakersfield, where she is a junior. She hopes to be accepted into a good college and become a dentist.
Also included on the program were the Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner and Scheherezade by Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov. These pieces were greatly enjoyed by an enthusiastic audience. In Scheherezade, concertmaster Gayel Pitchford played several solos, some with cellist Diego Miralles from the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. Both did the music full credit and both were proclaimed very good.
Pitchford’s solo sometimes went up very high in stratosphere, or nosebleed position, to quote said soloist.
Scheherezade was full of haunting Arabian melodies, jingling bells and crashing cymbals. This piece was a favorite of many listeners.
Needless to say, anyone who missed this concert missed a lot. The Tehachapi Community Orchestra has again thrilled its audience.
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