Alta High program expands to three orchestras; students to attend festival

Alta High School's music program presented a spring concert in which student announcers said the school has expanded from two orchestras to three this year and that one ensemble will attend a festival in two weeks.

At the concert, a student announcer introduced pieces performed by the school's chamber and symphony orchestras, saying, "This is the Alpha High School Chamber Orchestra. This is our advanced orchestra 3... That first piece was by Gustav Holst, called The Brookgreen Suite. We will next be playing a piece called Someday, a very sappy, emotional song, very pretty. And then we will end with Dag Wieran's finale from his Serenade for Strings." The same announcer later said, "This is our Orchestra 1, otherwise known as Symphony Orchestra. And this group is in its first year," and noted the school had grown "from 2 orchestras to 3 in the history of Alta High School." The announcer said the Symphony Orchestra will go to a festival in two weeks and that the program will finish the evening with Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings finale.

The concert included a performance of "Soldier's Hymn," which the announcer said featured Audrey on piano. The program concluded with a general thank-you and an announcement that final concerts will take place in May.

The remarks combined music program notes (repertoire and featured student performers) with an operational update: the expansion to three orchestras and an upcoming festival trip. No funding, administrative approvals, or formal school-board actions were discussed or recorded in the transcript excerpt.