Winter Orchestra Concert at Eureka High School Provided Holiday and Pirate Spirit

A standing-room-only audience greeted orchestra students last night as they performed their winter concert.  As a 'Music In Our Schools' event, the concert also incorporated eighth-grade orchestra students from School.

Concert director and Eureka High orchestra teacher Patti Fleer, along with sectional coaches Karen Person, Michael Blackwood and Stephen Larmore, led three groups of orchestra students through a variety of traditional as well as peppy pieces.

Chamber orchestra students first performed a suspenseful sounding "Winter from Four Seasons."  They then took the audience through imagining trolls through "In the Hall of the Mountain King," including quite a bit of pizzicato (plucking).  Their last song was "Mother Ginger from the Nutcracker Suite," which was a French folklore melody that was a perfect holiday tune.

Concert orchestra students started with "Neapolitan Song," which was a conservatory training piece originally written for piano.  The Hungarian-oriented "Three Slavonic Dances" next had a powerful, memorable start.  It was different to hear a familiar holiday song, "Jingle Bell Hoedown," done with strings.  They ended with a favorite "Wizards in Winter," which combined progressive and heavy metal rock elements with classic touches.

Symphonic orchestra students, also hosting the eighth graders, did "Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 1 Allegro."  Together they performed a beautiful rendition of "Pirates of the Caribbean," complete with wearing pirate hats.  The high school orchestra students then solely performed "American Sketches," an energetic, rhythmic piece.  The last song of the night, "Fiddle Like the Dickens," highlighted both high- and low-stringed instruments. 

"It was wonderful to have all the students here performing together," said Fleer.  "They played their best, and it was a great way to kick off the holiday season."

Fleer said Eureka High orchestra students were selected from among other interested orchestra groups within the state to perform at the 2011 Missouri Music Educators Association's annual conference on Jan. 28 at Tan-Tar-A Resort in Osage Beach, MO.  The conference includes orchestras, bands and choirs.

She said the Eureka orchestra's next local concert at the school will be Jan. 23, 2011, at 2:30 p.m., in preparation of their performance at the association's meeting.

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA MEMBERS:

Violin I

Hannah Hampton (section leader)

Melanie Kohrs

Nicole Lodderhose

Candice Vorbeck

Scott Jackson

Violin II

Tavo Loaiza (section leader)

Nihal Shrimal

Caroline Taylor

Alyssa Williams

Chris Schmitt

Viola

Marina Keller (section leader)

Brandon Powers

Alicia Kilpatrick

Daniel Markley

Bass

Alex Lindhorst (section leader)

Maia Loesche

Cello

Bailey Turnbo (section leader)

Grant Lofgreen

Emma Esposito

Jacob Massman

Kyle Luzynski

CONCERT ORCHESTRA MEMBERS:

Violin I

Brittany Lenhart (section leader)

Kathryn Humphries

Olivia Landgrebe

Annalee Fuller

Lexie Fallert

Scott Ewers

Ellie Figueroa

Steven Chesselow

Jared Kilbreath

Jacob Carlson

Maggie Palozola

Tyler Kutz

Sydney Allen

Annie Westbury

Violin II

Nikki Mitchell (section leader)

Rachel Dougherty

Marleen Ghattas

Eric Kaiman

Levi Perry

Kyle Woodard

Alexis Kendall

Jasmine Johnson

Andrea Schneider

Keith McIntyre

Viola

Lorenzo Aguas (section leader)

Jacob Boehm

Julia Brose

Cristin Selle

Brandon Spink

Hannah Harvey

Zach Sutter

Electric Guitar

Jacob Boehm

Electric Bass

Ben Web

Percussion

Lorenzo Aguas

Caitlin Selle

Cello

Alyssa O'Neal (section leader)

Morgan Fryman

Sarah Quarternik

Chloe Lozano

Caitlin Selle

Alana Hester

Ben Webb

Zach Shaw

Ryan Hellmann

Bass

Ted Jones (section leader)

Haley Albert

Eric Hilker

SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA MEMBERS:

Bass

Eric Wickert (section leader)

Ben Moore

Syd Tockman

Ian Bailey

Ben Roney

Bain Turnbo

Cello

Chelsea Deleon (section leader)

Matt Spresterbach

Elizabeth Sullivan

Taylor Wilson

Tim Ferrari

Dustin Rademacher

Nathaniel Brose

Mary Montgomery

Marisa Passiglia

Savanah Talcott

Viola

Quillan Brown (section leader)

Ian Davis

Nicole Dean

Josh Rector

Caitlyn Priese

Spencer Kendall

Matt Molengraft

Tim Roach

Brian Klopf

Orion Guan

Deshon Thomas-Wright

Violin II

Kaitlyn Alsup (section leader)

John Tipton

Aisha Uraizee

Haley Upton

Aman Jain

Kyle Kolb

Abigail Goldsby

Zachary Lubinski

Wolfie Durchholz

Taylor Black

Krishna Neelam

Matthew Vankleeck

Mehya Wheeler

Violin I

Sabrina Salamone (section leader)

Lauren Vogel

Mackenzie Schneider

Sara Chesselow

McKenna Brown

Rachel Mydlo

Kathleen Fincher

Cory Taylor

Luke Twombly

James Huang

Mallory Weise

Selina Baner

Emily Buatois

Ethan Brizendine

Karli McIntyre

8TH GRADE LaSALLE SPRINGS ORCHESTRA MEMBERS:

Violin I

Michael Huang

Ryan Atwood

Alyssa Cheney

Sarah Eves

Nick Faust

Greg Faust

Violin II

Jessica Smelcer

Jacob Hughes

Maneesh Tewani

Austin Price

Maddie Pryer

Viola

Sam Larson

Kyle Shirley

Natalie Carey

Kurt Prunty

Cello

Melissa Priese

Thalia Dimitriou

Robert Ewers

Adam Vorel

Marie Dicampo

Christian George

Bass

Eli Rademacher

Nick Sheehan

Franklin Bear