It’s time for theLittle Delaware Youth Ensemble’s annual Spring Concert. Originally established in 2000, the group provides the opportunity for young string players to gain ensemble experience they would not be able to get otherwise in a more rural community.
This year’s spring concert features works by Felix Mendelssohn, Antonio Vivaldi and even an orchestral arrangement of “Clocks” by the band Coldplay.
The spring concert is also a time to say good-bye to senior members. “We have one graduating senior this year,” said music director Uli Speth. “We've had a few more past years, but this is just one.” Former members of the Little Delaware Youth Ensemble have gone on to college and some are still performing.
The Little Delaware Youth Ensemble presents its Spring Concert on Sunday, June 2 at 3pm in the Foothills Performing Arts Center in Oneonta.
Watch Bill Snyder’s full interview with Uli Speth below.
Preparatory Orchestra
Debrah Devine, Conductor
Just So in the North -- Ignatius Sancho
Dragon Slayer -- Rob Grice
Downtown Suite -- Jay-Martin Pinner
I Library
II The Park
III Main Street
Canyon Sunset -- John Caponegro
Little Delaware Youth Ensemble
Uli Speth, Music Director
Holberg Suite for String Orchestra
in G Major op. 40 -- Edvard Grieg
III. Gavotte - Musette
Clocks (2003) --Coldplay/Chris Martin
Malena Buttermann, leader
String Symphony No. 7 in D Minor -- Felix Mendelssohn
I Allegro Sera Lentz, conductor
Colorado (2019) -- Jason Anick and Max O’Rourke
Arr. Benjamin Knorr
Concerto for Strings in G Minor, RV 157 -- Antonio Vivaldi
I Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Lullaby for Strings -- George Gershwin