By Melissa Marolla Brown
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DMS Winter Strings
Presents a Holiday Concert
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December 15 and 22
Clearwater
Details here
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There are plenty of local community orchestras for accomplished string players to participate in during the year – but what about those folks who are returning to their string instrument after years away, or just picking one up for the first time?
This season, the Dunedin Music Society has formed an ensemble specifically for those players. Among the performers in the ensemble are a gentleman who is returning to his violin after 50 years, a seasoned cellist recently relocated from New York City, and several adult students. The Winter Strings features violin, viola, cello and bass (with percussion), and will present a program of classic movie and show music, pop/rock, and arrangements of holiday favorites.
Among the pieces the string ensemble will perform are “I Dreamed A Dream” from the Broadway musical Les Miserables, and selections from the 1974 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a movie many children watch during the holidays. The film’s whimsical music includes “Pure Imagination,” the Oompa Loompa marches and “The Candy Man.”
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The group will also play a pop/rock hit from the 1990s, “Bittersweet Symphony,” based on a sample of a 1965 orchestral version of the Rolling Stones’ song “The Last Time” by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra and made famous in 1997 by The Verve.
And the group will present classical and holiday favorites such as “Greensleeves” and “Jingle Bells.”
Family-friendly concerts will take place on December 15 at 8 pm at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Clearwater, and December 22 at 8 pm at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Clearwater.
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Also, the Dunedin Concert Band shares a family-friendly holiday concert on December 18 at 3 pm at the Dunedin Community Center. Please bring non-perishable food to share with the Dunedin Cares Food Bank!
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