The Lincoln-Way Central Music Department is hosting a unique concert program featuring the Ahrensburg Germany Youth Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, July 30, at 7 p.m. in the Central Fine Arts Auditorium.
The German youth orchestra will be playing a musical program to be chosen from such great composers as Ludwig von Beethoven, Antonio Vivaldi, Hans-Joachim Marx, Johann Strauss, Franz von Suppe, Friedrich von Flotow and Franz Schubert.
“We will be taking donations at the door for the concert, with funds being split between the Steve Nedzel Memorial Fund and the Bill Bronson Benefit,” stated Eric Wellman, Lincoln-Way Central Band Director and music teacher.
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The Ahrensburg Youth Symphony Orchestra is located on the outskirts of Hamburg and was founded in 1968. Every year, members of the orchestra, ages 14-25, travel to a foreign country and invite a foreign group of students to Ahrensburg. The group has traveled and participated in exchange programs with Scandinavia, the Netherlands, the United States, Japan, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Greece, Scotland, Spain and Estonia.
The conductor is Michael Klaue. He was born in Hamburg in 1955 and studied music at “Hochschule Fur Musik und Theater Hamburg.”
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“This is a wonderful opportunity for our students to spend time, get to know, and listen to students from another country.
"This is an opportunity that most high school students are unable to do. The members of the Ahrensburg Orchestra will be able to see our community, meet our families, as well as visit downtown Chicago while they are here.
"As a former member of an international orchestra I can tell you that the most amazing times were spent with host families and I am very happy that our Lincoln-Way students and families will be able to take part in this wonderful weekend,” said Wellman.
