Abington Journal

KINGSTON - The Wyoming Seminary/PAI Civic Symphony Orchestra will mark a milestone when it presents two concerts titled “A 10th Anniversary Showcase,” celebrating 10 years of symphonic music, performed free to audiences in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The concerts will be performed on Monday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall of Wyoming Seminary, 228 Wyoming Avenue, just north of Kingston Corners, and on Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Houlihan-McLean Center, University of Scranton. Founding music director and conductor Jerome Campbell will lead the orchestra in the program’s featured work, a concerto for both oboe and alto saxophone composed and performed by woodwind virtuoso Thomas Heinze. This concerto, “Three for Two by One,” is a major work that takes its thematic materials through a journey that includes Celtic overtones, jazz treatments and a finale laced with Latin rhythm and color. Heinze currently is a free-lance performer and recording artist in Pennsylvania and New York. He has active teaching studios at Marywood University, where he also directs the jazz band, and Baptist Bible College and Wyoming Seminary, where he is a member of the Performing Arts Institute faculty. Rounding out the program are the overture “My Homeland,” based upon the music that has become the national anthem of the Czech Republic, and the haunting “Serenade for Strings” by the English romanticist Edward Elgar. The 70-member orchestra, founded by Campbell in 1999, includes professional performers, music students from area colleges and universities, talented adult amateurs and the very best of the area’s high school performers. The orchestra is under the sponsorship of Wyoming Seminary and the Performing Arts Institute, an international program for young musicians and dancers of exceptional ability. This performance is part of the 2009-10 Wyoming Seminary fine and performing arts program. For details, call 570.270.2190.