Lansdowne orchestra visits U.D. arts center for spring concert March 18
UPPER DARBY » The Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Reuben Blundell, presents its Spring Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at Upper Darby Performing Arts Center, 601 N. Lansdowne Ave., Drexel Hill. Tickets are $20, $17 for seniors, and $5 for students. Music lovers ages 8 and up are invited to attend.
Cellist Eliana Razzino Yang, an Irving Ludwig Youth Audition winner, perform’s Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations. Yang, who is 18 years old, lives in Philadelphia. She is a student of Amy Barston at Juilliard Pre-College in New York City and Yumi Kendall, Assistant Principal of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has performed solo recitals in London, Philadelphia, Helsinki, New York City, Paris and Rome and has performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. She plays on a Joseph Panormo cello from 1810.
In addition to the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations, the concert program also includes Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 from the “New World.”
Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artists Concerts marks 61 years in 2018 of featuring the winners of the Young Artists’ Auditions. The competition draws contestants from Pennsylvania and nearby states. The talented young winners of the competition rehearse and perform as soloists with the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra. The LSO’s Young Artist soloists often go on to win other prestigious competitions, and many have become professional musicians with illustrious performing careers.
Established over 70 years ago, the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra is widely regarded as one of the region’s most impressive and innovative community orchestras, offering 5 concerts each season performed at the Upper Darby Performing Arts Center and at other area venues. Over 70 members strong, the players are professionals from many fields who share a passion and commitment to serving the community with excellent orchestral music and promoting area talent. The players are members of the community, who come from near - Lansdowne, the Main Line, and Philadelphia - and far - Chester County, and southern New Jersey.
Reuben Blundell, Music Director of the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra since 2014, was recently re-engaged to serve the orchestra through its 2019-20 season. Over the past three years, he, the players, and the board have built on the orchestra’s great talent and potential on stage and in the community, making it one of Pennsylvania’s great artistic treasures.
For tickets and information, visit www.udpac.org or call the box office at 610-6221189. For information on the orchestra, visit www.lansdowneso.org
Grad school fair at Neumann
ASTON » Neumann University holds a graduate fair from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. March 15 in the Bruder Life Center, welcoming 10 colleges to share information about their post-baccalaureate programs. The event is free and opened to the public.
Colleges in attendance include: Alabama A&M University, Bowie State University, Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Delaware Law School of Widener University, Kutztown University, Moore College of Design, Neumann University, Penn State – Great Valley, Penn State – Harrisburg, and Shippensburg University.
“The Graduate Fair provides an opportunity for anyone in the region to learn about dozens of graduate programs at a single event,” said Erika Davis, director of Adult and Graduate Programs at Neumann University. “It’s a free event that we’re offering to people of any age who are interested in pursuing a graduate degree or certificate.”
The schools represented offer a broad array of graduate degrees from data analytics, education, and biology to pastoral clinical mental health counseling, communications, and master of business administration.
For information and registration, call 610-361-5208 or visit explore.neumann.edu/ graduate-fair
Crum Creek Neighbors meet March 26
MARPLE » Crum Creek Neighbors, an environmental, open space and neighborhood advocacy organization, holds its annual meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 26, at the Marple Township Library, 227 S. Sproul Road, Broomall. The meeting is held in the Community Room on the lower level next to the Commissioners Meeting Room. The public is invited to attend. Refreshments are served.
Support program available in Media
MEDIA » Holcomb Behavioral Health, 126 E. Baltimore Pike, Media, hosts the Pro Act Family Education Program from 7-9 p.m. Tuesdays, starting March 6. Staffed by trained volunteers, the free and confidential program can help families deal with addiction. Participants learn how to help themselves and advocate for their loved one. For registration, call the Council of SouthEast Pennsylvania at 1-800-221-6333. For local information, call Owen Powell at 610-566-7845.
See works from Delco artist
WILMINGTON » The Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway, announces its exhibit “Point Counter-Point” is on display through April 29. The exhibit features works from Alan Soffer of Wallingford.
The community-curated exhibition brings together three painters — Soffer, Brian Dickerson and Moe Brooker — who are attuned to harmonies and contrasts in abstract forms. Each artist explores the boundaries of the creative process through mixed media, color, form and texture.
It features black-andwhite gestural paintings and drawings from Soffer, Moe Brooker’s tribute to the spiritual nature of jazz, and Brian Dickerson’s meditative wood, constructed paintings.
A second reception for the exhibit is held from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, April 1, with an artist talk at 2. For information, visit www.delart.org