There will be a guest performance by a young trumpet player and high school senior from Saranac Lake, Sam Keating, in Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in Eb.

This orchestra will present “Majestic Moravian Melodies,” music from Moravia (eastern part of the current Czech Republic) where traditionally Slavic folk tunes meet western music in a melting pot of Slavic, Uralic (Hungarian) and Germanic languages and music traditions. Moravia is the birthplace of Antonin Dvorak and Leos Janacek, both of whom created well known master works integrating folk tunes into the more traditional music style of their immediate neighbors from Vienna, the likes of Haydn, Mozart and Schubert.

The Orchestra will start with a Hungarian Circle Dance, followed by an easy arrangement of the Largo theme from Dvorak’s New World (9th) Symphony. The String Orchestra will play excerpts from Leos Janacek’s “Idyll for Strings”, followed by a duet between Concert Master Elaine Dewar on Violin and Artistic Director and multiple wind instrument specialist, Alex Malin, on Bass Clarinet in the premiere of a new composition.

Pianist and Conductor John Curtis will conduct Haydn’s trumpet concerto in Eb, with Sam Keating on trumpet. For this piece we have invited our area musicians on winds to join the string orchestra. You’ll find Susan Hanley Grimm on Flute, John Blevins on Trumpet, Alex Malin on Bassoon and many more.

To close the program, the entire orchestra, strings and winds will present a Mark Goddard arrangement of Dvorak’s eight’s symphony with the fun title: “Dvorak 8! It’s great, Mate!” You’ll find the well known themes of the movements without the full color, instrumentation and length of a Romantic symphony.

The CSOA is a board-run nonprofit community string orchestra for string players of all ages and all playing levels, the youngest players has been 5 years old, the oldest currently is 89.

The concerts are free, but donations are greatly accepted.