FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 6, 2005

CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119, lisa.lacher@drake.edu

DRAKE SYMPHONY TO PRESENT ANNUAL YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERT

The Drake Symphony Orchestra, John Canarina conducting, will conclude its season with the annual Young Artists Concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 23, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main, 25th Street and University Avenue. The concert is free and open to the public.

Four outstanding student soloists will be featured: soprano Kristen French from Clinton, Mo., in arias by Dvorak and Bernstein; soprano Molly Haight from Johnston, Iowa, in arias by Menotti and Donizetti; pianist Benjamin Krueger from Minneapolis in the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2; and saxophonist Grant Mitchell from Cape Fair, Mo., in Milhaud’s "Scaramouche" Suite. All of the featured soloists are Drake students.
The orchestra will conclude the program with "The Pines of Rome" by Respighi.

For more information, call (515) 271-2108.

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