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SOUND CHECK
WHAT’S PLAYING AROUND
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
MAY 11�18, 2022
OES Youth Orchestra presents
pair of free concerts
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P
ENDLETON — The Oregon
East Symphony’s youth
orchestra will play two spring
concerts this month.
The fi rst is Thursday, May
19, at Vert Auditorium, 480 SW
Dorion Ave. The music starts at
7 p.m.
On Friday, May 20, the
orchestra will add music to the
Pendleton Farmers Market start-
ing at 5:30 p.m. The market is
held on South Main Street.
Both performances are free.
The youth orchestra is OES’s
intermediate level preparatory
orchestra. Under the direction
of Zach Banks, OES educa-
tion director, the musicians will
perform Brahms’ “Academic
Festival Overture,” Rimsky-
Korsakov’s “Capriccio Espag-
nol,” Tchaikovsky’s “Themes
from Romeo & Juliet” and the
“Finale” from Beethoven’s
“Fifth Symphony.”
Both concerts will also
feature the Preludes Orches-
tra under the direction of Viet
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The Oregon East Symphony Youth Orchestra performed in the Vert Auditorium Jan. 27, 2022. The next concerts are May 19 and 20.
Block, OES educator and as-
sistant concertmaster. Preludes
students will perform Edmund J.
Siennickki’s “Suite for Strings,”
Merle J. Isaac’s “American Folk
Song Suite No. 3” and Brahms’
“Hungarian Dance No. 5.”
J.D. Kindle, OES executive
director, said the Symphony
Strings will join the May 19 per-
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formance. Symphony Strings is
an after-school beginning clas-
sical strings education program,
in collaboration with Pendleton
School District, for local fourth
and fi fth grade students.
Kindle said Symphony
Strings students learn basic
playing techniques on an instru-
ment of their choice (violin,
viola, cello), and learn how to
read music at an elementary
level and how to perform as part
of a string ensemble.
For more information about the
Oregon East Symphony and Play-
ing for Keeps, its comprehensive
suite of classical music educa-
tion activities for rural youth, visit
oregoneastsymphony.org or call
the OES offi ce, 541-276-0320.
18th Annual Old Iron Show
Roy Raley Park Pendleton, Oregon
Friday & Saturday,
June 3 rd & 4 th
8am - Dusk
Sunday, June 5 th
8am - 1pm
For more information call: Mark 541-303-3309 • Bill 541-240-9023 • Jack 541-310-0583