By Devon Liu
Staff Writer
The Mira Costa Wind Ensemble, Symphonic band, and Symphony and Philharmonic orchestras were invited on May 26 of this year to play on May 29, 2016 at a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The band and orchestra groups will be in New York from May 26, 2016 to Monday May 30, 2016.
At the May 29 concert in Carnegie Hall, the band and orchestra groups will be playing in a professional concert for the New York public. Mira Costa band and orchestra groups may also add additional performances as guests at Riverside Church and an exchange with LaGuardia Performing Arts High School in Lincoln Center.
“We will play a piece that is spectacular and a good challenge so the music students rise to this amazing occasion.” orchestra conductor Peter Park said. “I don’t know what piece we will playing as of right now because it is still too early, but it will be fantastic.”
According to Park and instrumental music teacher Joel Carlson, they have decided to go to Carnegie Hall because just four years prior, the Symphony orchestra performed there. However, Park and Carlson wanted to go together, and submitted an audition recording of music from the Winter and Prism concert of this year for Symphony as well as some pieces from last year and pieces from wind ensemble, symphonic, and philharmonic- all individually from this year and last year. When the band and orchestra groups were accepted, Park and Carlson chose to perform on May 29.
“We perform Sunday May 29, and not Saturday because we don’t want to compete with the New York Philharmonic,” said Park.
According to Park, elected student orchestra presidents Allison Doami and Zoobia Jilani, vice presidents Sabrina Callender-Clewett and Alex Whitcombe, activities manager Forrest Wu and Megan Raventos, and historian Rebecca Bacich and Jasmine Wu will also be brainstorming fundraising ideas to prepare for the trip. All proceeds will fund students who cannot afford the trip, flights, hotel, meals, and sightseeing costs.
“That’s the hard part, to raise the money, but hopefully we will get local companies like Chevron and Sketchers to sponsor this trip,” Orchestra Boosters President Eve Ahlers said.
According to Carlson, the opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall will be a great experience for band and orchestra, especially because the performances are combined.
“When we go to a festival, it is never my goal to get a grade,” Carlson said, “When we go it is my goal to speak creatively through sound. It is extremely gratifying to be offered the opportunity to be on the concert series we auditioned to be put on.”
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