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NEWS FROM THE CYS PARENT GUILD Preparations for the 62nd season are off to a great start! The role of the CYS Parent Guild is critical to the operations of the Carolina Youth Symphony. The Parent Guild is composed of the parents and guardians of all the students in the Repertory Orchestra, PAID ofnote Concert Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra. Our goal is to support CYS by helping US POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 19 NO. PERMIT at concerts, providing concert ushers, staffing the ticket and CD tables, aiding in GREENVILLE, SC NONPROFIT ORG. NONPROFIT CELEBRATING 62 YEARS OF MUSIC • OCTOBER 2017 fundraising, serving refreshments to the musicians before concerts, coordinating receptions after concerts and much more. We encourage and appreciate any help from all friends of the orchestras. The Parent Guild also provides financial support for Camp, summer scholarships and sectional instructors. Current fundraisers are Yankee FROM THE CONDUCTOR Candle and Honey Baked Ham for student accounts. We are pleased Phil and Veda We are very pleased to announce our opening concert for the 62nd Bickley, CYS alumni parents, have agreed to make a limited number of a 7th in a series season of the Carolina Youth Symphony. Our students are primed to of hand blown glass ornaments. We will begin our 62nd concert season with all three present another exciting season of great music making for our audiences. orchestras performing at the Peace Center on Sunday, October 29, 2017. For our first concert, we are once again privileged to be performing at Our Greenville Little Theatre benefit performance will be held on November 7, 2017. the Peace Center in downtown Greenville. This is a world-class concert This event is a wonderful evening of theatre, good food, friends, music and the best hall and it is a real treat for our students to play in this facility. Orchestra deal in town at a cost of only $30. The evening begins at 7:00 pm with hors d’oeuvres, members from the Greenville Symphony Orchestra will also join us for our annual “Side by Side” concert. This is a great experience for our students a cash wine bar and music, followed by the performance at 8:00 pm. Dessert and LESLIE W. HICKEN coffee will be served at intermission. This year’s production is: performing alongside these accomplished professional musicians. MUSIC DIRECTOR We are very proud to present as our guest soloist my colleague at Furman Over the River and Through the Woods A hilarious and warm hearted family fiasco about a young man trying University, Professor of Clarinet Dr. Cecilia Kang. She will be featured as a to move away from his family. soloist on a performance of the alluring composition Snake in the Garden for clarinet and orchestra by American composer, Paul Richards. This We look forward to seeing you there. piece paints a picture of the events that transpired in the Garden of Eden. John and Kathryn Heeney, Parent Guild Co-Presidents You can imagine what part the clarinet plays in all of this. The remainder of the program will feature an eclectic collection of music and composers. We open our program with a selection by American composer, Aaron Copland. His composition An Outdoor Overture was CAROLINA YOUTH SYMPHONY CAMP 534 PO BOX originally written for the students at New York City’s High School for the Performing Arts. We will also present the evocative composition Espana For the 17th year, CYS opened its 2017-2018 SPONSORS GREENVILLE, SC 29602 by French composer Emmanuel Chabrier and Edvard Grieg’s energetic season with a weekend at Camp Greenville in THESE CONCERT CONCERT THESE setting of Norwegian Dances. MANY THANKS TO TO THANKS MANY the South Carolina Mountains. Long considered Violins of House Bernhardt KEMET Goldsmith, PA Elmore Consulting Sweeney McCallum to Nexsen you big thank A and Rosenfeld LLC Pruet, their for Einstein the sponsorship of continued CYS Camp T-shirts. a staple in the Carolina Youth Symphony’s Our concert at the Peace Center will begin by featuring both our commitment to building a cohesive orchestra, Repertory Orchestra led by Ginger Greer, and our Concert Orchestra the weekend was attended by over 200 conducted by Jim Kilgus. people including musicians, staff and fabulous Please come and share with me the music making of our talented young parent chaperones. Camp culminated in a musicians as we begin our concert season. We will look forward to seeing concert in the Airnasium on Sunday featuring you at all of our performances throughout the year. all three orchestras. With 240 students in the ofnote CYS program from 90 schools and 41 cities in VOLUME XXI • ISSUE 1 • OCTOBER 2017 two states, it is Published biannually by the Carolina Youth Symphony clear that CYS is a geographically diverse group. Since Leslie W. Hicken so many of the CYS family are from different schools and SUSAN ROBBINS, Editor different cities, the Camp Greenville weekend provides an opportunity to get acquainted with fellow orchestra CRAWFORD STRATEGY, Design CYS/GLT PRESENT OVER THE RIVER members and to make new friends before the season starts. Rehearsals followed by fun activities including LESLIE W. HICKEN, Music Director and Conductor, CYS Symphony Orchestra AND THROUGH THE WOODS s’mores Friday night; square dance Saturday night; team This year our Carolina Youth Symphony/Greenville Little Theatre benefit performance JAMES F. KILGUS, Conductor, CYS Concert Orchestra building exercises and a choice of canoeing, hiking and fundraiser will be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at the Greenville Little Theatre. This is swimming make camp an exciting beginning to the season GINGER GREER, Conductor, CYS Repertory Orchestra a wonderful evening of theater, good food, friends and music. The event will begin at 7:00 for students, staff, and chaperones. pm, with hors d’oeuvres, a wine cash bar and music followed by the performance at 8:00. A big thank you to Nexsen Pruet, LLC and Rosenfeld LEE ELMORE, Executive Director Dessert and coffee will be served at intermission. This year’s production is Over the River and Einstein for their continued sponsorship of the CYS Camp Through the Woods–A hilarious and warm-hearted family fiasco about a young man trying T-shirts. BEV BRESETTE, Executive Assistant to move away from his family. The ticket price remains $30 - clearly one of the best deals in town for a wonderful evening. KEITH BRADFORD, Operations Director LOGAN CAMPBELL, SAM SHERER, ALYSSA JOURET, JORDAN CHASE, Furman University Interns WADE KOLB, Board President carolinayouthsymphony.org FURMAN/CYS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM CECILIA KANG PERFORMS WITH THE CYS LEE ELMORE CELEBRATES 20 YEARS Each year Furman University and the Carolina Youth SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ON OCTOBER 29 AS CYS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Symphony sponsor Furman music students who work as interns during the year with the CYS. The interns attend The Soloist in the October 29 Concert, Clarinetist Cecilia Kang, is a recipient of Lee Elmore has served as Executive Director of the Carolina Youth rehearsals and concerts and work with the CYS students notable awards from the Canadian Music Competition, the Montreal Symphony Symphony for 20 years, providing wonderful leadership, stability, organization, and a “Three Musketeer” attitude, helping the staff in various capacities. This year there are four interns. Orchestra Standard Life Competition, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in The Furman interns, pictured left to right in the photo, work together for the benefit of all students. Washington DC, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Metropolitan Arts Council. are: A Native Greenvillian, Anna “Lee” Elmore received her Bachelor’s Logan Campbell: Wind Intern - Logan Campbell is a As a concert clarinetist, she has performed at The Chamber Music Festival of Arts degree and her Juris Doctorate from the University of senior music education student at Furman University (Denmark), IMPULS Contemporary Music Festival (Austria), Castleton Music Festival South Carolina. She is a certified civil mediator and has long where he studies Music Education with primary been active on community arts and social services boards in instruments of voice, oboe, and bassoon. He is in the (USA), Luzerne Music Center (USA), Collingwood Music Festival (Canada), Banff Furman Paladin Regiment, Wind Ensemble, Furman Centre for the Arts (Canada), International Clarinet and Saxophone Festival (China) Greenville County. Through her position as Executive Director, Singers, Phi Mu Alpha Music Fraternity, Pauper Players, and the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest in 2014 and 2016. she has provided musical support for events benefiting the McCall Palmetto Boys State and sings as a choral scholar at First Hospice House; the St. Francis Festival of Trees; the Rose Ball; the Baptist Church of Greenville. He returns to CYS for his final year after having been abroad A highly sought-after artist, teacher and clinician, Dr. Kang has Heart Ball; the Meals on Wheels fund raiser and the Art Museum in Germany with the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals for the presented master classes throughout North America, Europe as well as the Greenville Little Theatre. During her tenure with CYS, the orchestra has grown from 120 to 260 musicians; added a third orchestra and a third conductor; added 2016-2017 year. He plans on pursuing a Masters in Orchestral Conducting and potentially and Asia. She has also presented at conferences hosted by the moving back to Germany to seek conducting jobs and performance opportunities. an annual weekend trip to YMCA Camp Greenville; performed at the Brooks Center Music Educators Association, the College Music Society, and the in Clemson; Twichell Auditorium at Converse College; the Porter Center of Brevard Sam Sherer: Percussion Intern - Sam Sherer is a classical and jazz percussionist and International Clarinet Association.