West Shore Symphony Orchestra
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The West Shore Symphony Orchestra is a 62-member symphony orchestra based at the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts in Muskegon, Michigan. The current Music Director/Conductor is Scott Speck.
[edit] History
The West Shore Symphony was formed in 1938 by A.M. Courtright, a local teacher, and Palmer Quackenbush. It gave its first performance in November of that year, and incorporated the following year. The orchestra performed in local schools until the Frauenthal Center reopened in the late 1970's. The orchestra currently performs eight concerts per season: five classical and three pops. Among notable soloists who have performed with the orchestra are Jessye Norman, Joshua Bell, Percy Grainger, Anna Maria Alberghetti, and recently (2007-05-05) Yuri Rozum performed the Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninoff with the orchestra.
Music Director/Conductor Scott Speck has held the position since 2002
[edit] Education
The West Shore Symphony Orchestra sponsors the West Shore Youth Symphony, an orchestra for students around West Michigan. The WSYS is currently conducted by Dan Meyers, Professor of Music at West Shore Community College
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