Idyllwild Arts to Hold Free Summer Concert at UCLA’s Royce Hall

Idyllwild
Arts to Hold Free Summer Concert at UCLA’s Royce Hall

Summary: Experience the thrilling
sound of live music and a peek into the exciting future of chamber orchestras
and classical choral music.  At 4:00
p.m., on August 10, 2014, Idyllwild Arts will highlight the culmination of its
65th Summer Program with a free concert at UCLA’s Royce Hall.  Open to the public.  No ticket or reservation is required. www.IdyllwildArts.org

 Westwood,
CA  (August 10, 2014) -– In celebration of the 65th
year of its Summer Program, Idyllwild
Arts, a non-profit arts-education institution,  is hosting a free concert open to the general
public. This summer evening program will be on August 10, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. in
Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA.  The
performance marks the culmination of Chamberfest
and Festival Choir, intensive two-week
programs held in the San Jacinto Mountains for outstanding
high-school level musicians. 

 Idyllwild
Arts High School Chamberfest Concert under the direction of Larry
Livingston. Classical repertoire to include: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4,
Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, Tchaikovsky’s Waltz & Polonaise, and Felix Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture.

Idyllwild Arts High School Choir
Concert.  Dr. Joseph Modica will lead a performance
of Requiem Mass by Maurice Duruflé.

 The audience will consist of family and friends of the participants,
members of partnering art institutions and theatres, local Los Angeles-area
residents, as well as middle school students and instructors interested in the
acclaimed music programs available at Idyllwild Arts.  They will view firsthand the transformation
experienced by these outstanding high school age musicians (after developing
and refining the skills needed for excellence in small ensemble performance),
as they perform some of the most challenging literature in the chamber
orchestra repertoire.

 “It is exciting to see that the future
of music is in the hands of these capable and talented young people,” said
Larry Livingston, Professor of Conducting at USC and retired Dean of the
Thornton School of Music, who has supplied inspiring leadership for
the Idyllwild Arts Symphony Orchestra for 25 summers.  “The future of our industry depends on your
support of students with this high level of musical talent.”

 Located just two hours east of Los Angeles, Idyllwild Arts offers a
fully accredited, boarding arts high school Academy, and an extensive Summer
Program with 100-plus intensive hands-on workshops for students of all
ages. The Academy, which opened in 1986, offers majors in music, dance,
theatre, visual arts, writing, filmmaking and Inter-Arts. With a 200-acre
campus; extensive studio, exhibition and performance spaces; and a notable
faculty; IAF also has a history of visiting artists such as Ansel Adams,
Meredith Willson, Bella Lewitzky, Fritz Scholder, Maria Martinez, Pete Seeger,
and Norman Corwin.