Welcome one and all to the second season of the East Metro Symphony Orchestra (formerly the 3M Club Symphony Orchestra)!
Home Cookin’ – Emerging from a sea of musicians
Director’s Corner: Home Cookin’ – Emerging from a sea of musicians The tradition is for orchestras to bring in the biggest, splashiest soloists they can entice to perform with them: A major symphony orchestra brings in an internationally-acclaimed music star; a smaller orchestra brings in a national or regional musical star; a school or university…
Home Cookin’ Concert Featuring members of the EMSO performing
Our Home Cookin’ performance features members of the orchestra in solo or small group performances. This season’s Home Cookin’concert will have the orchestra accompany members who will perform violin, cello and piano solos, and duets of trumpets and clarinet/bassoon. Performers: Holly Ager (Violin) Joyce Bjorklund (Clarinet) Tom Burns (Trumpet) Katie Douglass (Cello) Gus Gutman (Vocal)…
“Origins” with Sumunar Gamelan and Dance Ensemble
The EMSO continues its Origins concert series through its collaboration with the Sumumar Gamelan and Dance Ensemble to present “Meeting of Two Spirits.” The program will combine Indonesian and Western Classical music traditions. Spring ahead with us at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, March 11th at East Ridge High School in Woodbury. Tickets $8 adults, $6 students…
Playing with Kids
Playing with Kids My first experience having student and adult orchestra musicians “mix it up” was as music director of the Elgin Area Youth Orchestra back in the early 90s. Our high school orchestra was invited to share a concert with the local, professional Elgin Symphony Orchestra. For the finale of the program we all…
Joint concert with the S. Washington County Middle & High School Orchestras
Due to the success of the last two years, EMSO is excited for the third annual side-by-side concert with the South Washington County School District 833 Orchestras. The side-by-side concert unites students living in the east metro communities with the east metro’s own community orchestra EMSO. ”Side-by-side” literally means that the two groups are integrated…
A Symphony of Voices
A Symphony of Voices On the face of it, a barbershop chorus and a symphony orchestra have very little in common. Generally a barbershop choir concert is centered around a group of songs, but is deliberately infused with movement (some choreographed, some simply the movements that each individual singer creates to fully perform their part),…
Barbershop Music with the Twin Cities Show Chorus
Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, 3:00 p.m. at East Ridge High School East Metro Symphony Orchestra (EMSO) will join the award-winning Twin Cities Show Chorus (TCSC) for a “Festival of American Original Song” Sunday, January 29, at East Ridge High School in Woodbury. The performance, celebrating American barbershop music and all it inspired, will provide…