The Brockport Symphony Orchestra, celebrating the start of its seventh season, will present “A Friends and Family Celebration” on Friday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the historic sanctuary at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 14 State Street in the Village of Brockport. Admission and parking are free, and donations to the orchestra with a portion for St. Luke’s and canned items for the Brockport Ecumenical Food Shelf will be gratefully accepted at the door.
Under the baton of music director Jonathan Allentoff, this concert will showcase the talents of guest vocal artist Mary Wojciechowski and trumpet soloist Steve Hahn.
Wojciechowski, who recently appeared as soloist at the Corning Museum of Glass and the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, will perform Pure Imagination from “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” Never Never Land from “Peter Pan,” and In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening from “Here Comes the Groom.” She will also join the orchestra for the Brockport Alma Mater by Marie Lillian Weldon
Hahn, the orchestra’s principal trumpet and award-winning recording artist, will perform Leroy Anderson’s Trumpeter’s Lullaby. The program also includes Menuets 1 & 2 from Music for the Royal Fireworks by G. F. Handel, Waltz No. 16 by Johannes Brahms, and Forgotten Dreams by Leroy Anderson.
Following the concert, there will be a dessert reception in Parish Hall celebrating Family Weekend.
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