MSFO

After seven weeks learning, practicing and performing with one another, the Music School Festival Orchestra will play their final concert.

Since 1965, the Hultquist Foundation has been supporting the broader Jamestown community by donating approximately $750,000 to various charities in

Eight Music School Festival Orchestra students and three voice students will perform Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at 7 p.m.

For their end-of-season recital, the 10 Music School Festival Orchestra cellists will play pieces that were arranged specifically for them.

A summer at Chautauqua Institution gives young musicians the chance to learn surrounded by talented peers, faculty and guest instructors.

The first time Earl Lee conducted an orchestra to perform with live dancers was three years ago on the Amphitheater

The instrumental and voice students are coming together for a chamber recital unlike any other this summer. “It’s lovely for

Magic flutes, valkyries, rampant consumption — some themes in opera can be hard to relate to, and not just for the audience. Singers, like actors, perform best when they can lose themselves in a character — when they can find that common thread that connects them with their role. But how do you find something in common with a 13th-century family in Florence?

SLIDESHOW: Scenes from the Music School Festival Orchestra on Monday, July 11, 2011.

July 5’s premiere performance of the Music School Festival Orchestra introduced an energetic and versatile group of young musicians ready to take on the challenges of not only difficult but very diverse repertoire. Tonight’s concert will once again display the astounding amount of progress the MSFO has made since its first concert, but it also will have some debuts of its own.

An orchestra has many musicians, but it breathes as a unit. For some symphony orchestras, it may take years to foster the kind of bond necessary to produce top quality music, but students in the Music School Festival Orchestra have only seven weeks. At 8:15 p.m. tonight, the MSFO will perform its first of five concerts in the Amphitheater. Led by music director and conductor Timothy Muffitt, the concert will feature four works that would appear at home on any professional symphony’s program. However, there will be something that sets the MSFO apart.