Community Orchestra performs at Secret City Festival on Saturday

Posted at 2:19 am June 12, 2014
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Oak Ridge Community Orchestra at the Secret City Festival

The Oak Ridge Community Orchestra performs at the 2013 Secret City Festival. (Submitted photo)

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While you attend the Secret City Festival in Oak Ridge on Saturday morning, stop by the pavilion and listen to the Oak Ridge Community Orchestra from 11:15 to 11:45 am. It’s free entertainment.

You will enjoy the program of popular renditions: music from the movies with highlights from “Jurassic Park” and “The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Rings),” jazz from the big band era in A Salute to the Big Bands, and favorite Broadway hits in Curtain Up!

A Salute to the Big Bands includes memorable melodies such as “April in Paris,” “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You,” “Pennsylvania Six-Five-Thousand,” “Serenade in Blue,” and “Sing, Sing, Sing.”

Curtain Up features the famous Broadway tunes “Don’t Rain On My Parade,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “If He Walked Into My Life,” “One,” “The Phantom Of The Opera,” and that rousing chorus, “There’s No Business Like Show Business.”

The pavilion at Alvin K. Bissell Park is the location for a variety of free entertainment events at the Secret City Festival on Friday, June 13, and Saturday, June 14. It is located behind the Oak Ridge Civic Center, southwest of the intersection of The Oak Ridge Turnpike with South Tulane Avenue. You can find the complete schedule of free entertainment here. And, for more information on the 2014 Secret City Festival, visit here.

You can find more details describing ORCO at www.OakRidgeCommunityOrchestra.com. The Oak Ridge Community Orchestra is a 501(c)3, nonprofit, volunteer organization. We are always interested in new members. Anyone wishing to regularly participate in this accomplished orchestra is encouraged to contact Personnel Manager Cyndi Jeffers at orcopersonnelmanager@gmail.com.

Usually, we can accommodate additional string players, and occasionally there are openings in the brass, woodwind, and percussion sections. The orchestra welcomes experienced musicians of all ages. The Oak Ridge Community Orchestra is a rewarding venue for instrumentalists who enjoy playing for an appreciative audience, with music ranging from baroque through classical to contemporary.