Through our brilliant events and festivals, you’ll experience the vibrance of the Champaign-Urbana area! Discover something new every day!
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From Sea to Shining Symphony
Urbana High School
1002 S. Race St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 384-3505
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Urbana Arts & Culture and Urbana Pops Orchestra invite you to a free concert. Stephen Larson will conduct music representing the many landscapes of our country from to coast to coast and was inspired by Carmen Dragon’s arrangement of American the Beautiful. Another piece, Lincoln Portrait, by Aaron Copland, includes familiar tunes from the southern states woven together with excerpts from some of Abraham Lincoln’s lesser-known speeches.
Urbana Mayor DeShawn Williams will serve as the narrator for this piece reading the words of Abraham Lincoln.
There will also be several fun pieces such as Old MacDonald by Leroy Anderson includes the sounds barnyard animals, Adagio for a Tee-Ball Dropout which consists of variations on a popular baseball tune.
Children, especially, will enjoy “Let it Go,” from the musical Frozen,” performed by cast members from the Urbana Park District’s Youth Summer Theatre production.
And, high school cellist Jason Yan, as winner of the Chambana International Music Competition, concerto division will play Hungarian Rhapsody by David Popper with the orchestra.