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Spring Performances This Week @ Civic Arts
Celebrate spring with jazz, flute, youth orchestra and ballet performances this week at Walnut Creek's Shadelands Art Center
Spring Gala Concert
Tues., May 26, 7 p.m. @ Shadelands Art Center, 111 N. Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek
Enjoy an exciting concert performance by area youth musicians in Civic Arts Education’s Young Performers Orchestra and Diablo Regional Youth Orchestra, directed by Rem Djemilev. The performance will feature music by A. Vivaldi, A. Dvorak, Ch. Avison, G. F. Handel, J. Ch. Bach and also the world premiere of two new works by our local composer from Clayton, George Curtis van Liew: “Awaiting the Snow” and “Aura Serenade”. Tickets are $10 by calling 943-5846.
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Civic Arts Jazz Band and Flock of Flutes Concert
Thurs., May 28, 7 p.m. @ Shadelands Art Center, 111 N. Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek
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For a swinging concert with lots of variety, join the Walnut Creek Civic Arts Jazz Band and Flock of Flutes for a fun spring concert. Under the direction of Max Pricco, the jazz band sizzles away with a montage of tunes from a bossa nova version of “Night and Day” to the ballad “Lover Man” and such swing standards as “Our Love Is Here To Stay.”
Flock of Flutes, conducted by Monica Williams, adds even more variety to the mix as 20 flutists, performing on c flutes, alto flute, bass flutes, piccolo and contra bass flutes, perform a variety of music including “Suite In a Minor” by Telemann, selections from “Peer Gynt Suite” by Grieg and “Children of the Wind” by Catherine McMichael.
Dance Academy Spring Ballet Performance
Wed., May 27 & Fri., May 29, 7 p.m. @ Shadelands Art Center, 111 N. Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek
Professional and pre-professional dancers with Civic Arts Education will perform variations from the ballet Coppélia. Coppélia imagines an inventor, Dr. Coppelius, who has made a life-size dancing doll that is so lifelike that Franz, a village youth, becomes infatuated with it and sets aside his true heart’s desire, Swanhilde. She shows him his folly by dressing as the doll, pretending to make it come to life and ultimately saving him from an untimely end at the hands of the inventor.
