SEQUIM — “Amazing Grace,” “O Sole Mio” and a taste of Vivaldi are on the program, thanks to the Port Angeles High School Chamber Orchestra, for this coming Tuesday’s midday interlude known as Music Live with Lunch.
Starting at noon, the illustrious Ron Jones will conduct the 16-piece orchestra in a 30-minute public concert in the sanctuary of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave.
Then comes a hot lunch served, with camaraderie as always, in the parish hall; tickets for music and meal are $10 and available at the door shortly before noon Tuesday.
“The students are always an amazing draw and the program Ron planned is quite spectacular,” said Music Live with Lunch publicist Sammy Greenwood.
Along with Vivaldi’s Allegro in G from the Concerto for Two Guitars, “The Music of the Night,” one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s songs from “The Phantom of the Opera,” and the Adagio from Tomaso Albinoni are also part of Tuesday’s concert.
The orchestra’s student players, selected by audition, are part of Port Angeles High’s orchestra program, in existence for 96 years and is one of the oldest such programs in the state.
Tuesday’s performers include violinists Mariia Dzhenkova, Hana Kildall, Lauren Rankin, Lum Fu, Benjamin Basden, Sienna Porter, Emilyann Peterson and Rose Alexander; violists Leah Haworth, Calista Mordecai-Smith, Lauren Waldron and Laura Nutter; and cellists Daniel Williams, Emma Smith, Evan Cobb and Lauren Paup-Byrnes.
Music Live with Lunch, held the third Tuesday of the month at St. Luke’s, was founded more than 25 years ago by the late Lou Yandell and her husband Bill as an outreach to the community.
To find out more and to purchase tickets in advance, phone the church office, open from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday, at 360-683-4862.
