The Franklin Middle School Orchestras and Lincoln High School Orchestra will present their annual winter concert Monday, March 2 at 7 p.m. in the LHS Auditorium, under the direction of Derek Druse. The cost is $5 a person with Pre-K getting free admission. All proceeds benefit the orchestra program in Thief River Falls.
The FMS Sixth Grade Orchestra will be opening with songs from their book, Finale From First Symphony by Johannes Brahms, and Liza Jane, an American folk song done in bluegrass style. Gaelic Castle features the orchestra switching melodies and articulation every eight measures. They will finish with High Flying, an energetic moving song by Tyler S. Grant.
The FMS Seventh and Eighth Grade Orchestra will start by performing Brandenburg Concerto #5, an arrangement of the famous concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach. They will also perform a medley of Irish fiddle tunes in The Legend of Duffy’s Cut, in tribute to Irish railroad workers that may have been killed by anti-Irish vigilantes in the 1800s. They will finish with the theme song of the superhero of the orchestra, The Adventures of Stringman.
The LHS Orchestra will open their portion of the program with Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 5 in D, written for two solo violins with orchestra by George F. Handel. They will also play the second movement of Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony. The concert will finish with three movements of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony #22 accompanied by members of the LHS Band.
Sixth Grade Orchestra – first violin: Emerson Carlson, Robert Eurek, Kyra Hoffman, Kellen Lian and Brayden Muetzel; second violin: Aubrey Dahlin, Landon Hirst, Kimberly Holter and Olivia Maas; bass: William Kirkeby-Stumbo and Teven Sceville; viola: Lucia Jensen and Isabel Kainz; cello: Jaisley Brinkman, Theo Haugen, Astaire Juhl, Annabelle Metelak, Abigail Olson and Kamryn Zinter; and percussion: Theo Haugen and William Kirkeby-Stumbo.
Seventh Grade Orchestra – first violin: Timothy Green and Milo Thorn; viola: Elsa Haugen, Veronica Voytilla and Isla Walter; bass: Cecilia Eastman and Chava Wattenphul; and cello: Hudson Amiot, Ryder Warner and Amelia Wilson.
Eighth Grade Orchestra – first violin: Braxton Drevlow, Kora Fuhrer, Lydia Jorstad, Emma Shomaker and Maizey Ziegler; second violin: Mirakle Brown, Kindra Durham, Anna Kinzler, Erin Kinzler, Isabella Ledford and Hailey Rivers; cello: Rafael Ascencio, Sade Nelson and Jace Sands; viola: Lillian Lane; bass: Colton Huth and Connor Suko; and clarinet: Mirakle Brown.
LHS Orchestra – first violin: Dawson Colden, Storm DCamp, Dawson Erickson, Joseph Hanson, Ellie Holten, Tucker Knott, Shelby Green, Anthony Larson, Angela Li and Keyarah Verdell; second violin: Richard Armen-dariz, Elizabeth Brereton, Zakia Burstad, Lila Dalager, Emma Dean, Alyssa Foster, Hayden Foster, Rylin Hunt, Samantha Kieffer, Rowan Mossestad, Mickaela Renwick, Svea Wolff and Ava Wolter; viola: Kayden Chute, Brenna Drevlow, Hailey Leatherwood and Quinn Rodriguez; bass: Zaranna Anderson, Raynee Bruggeman, Bethany Crandall, Ian Grzadzie-lewski and Tobias Sobotta; cello: Sebastian Baltierra, Caitlin Brereton, Aaron Collins, Brooke Drevlow, James Fairbanks, Gwenyth Hagen, Dracen Harding, Alora Green, Dylan Lane and Silvermoon Poitra; oboe: Ava Wolter; flute: Storm DCamp; horn: Preston Barron; percussion: Sebastian Baltierra; and trumpet: Andersen Forsberg.