The following is a new release from Brigham Young University-Idaho.
REXBURG — Rexburg musician and teacher Kendell Nielsen will conduct the Idaho Falls Youth Symphony in a performance Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Barrus Concert Hall at BYU-Idaho in Rexburg.
Nielsen, who is the new music director of the Idaho Falls Youth Symphony, said it’s the first time in recent years that the youth symphony has performed in Rexburg.
The orchestra will perform a program of “Sweet Suites” that includes the picturesque “Mississippi Suite” by Ferde Grofé.
As an experiment using modern technology, audience members will be encouraged to pull out their cell phones and to scan a barcode in the printed program that will take them to a YouTube video of a train ride through Norway as the symphony performs the Karelia Suite by Jean Sebelius. The Peer Gynt Suit by Edvard Grieg will also be performed.
Assistant conductor Ariel Loveland, a graduate from BYU-Idaho, will conduct a movement from the Carl Nielsen Little Suite for Strings.
Nielsen said there are 112 students in the orchestra. They come from across eastern Idaho, from as far away as Pocatello to the south and Ashton to the north. There are 10 or 12 players from the Rexburg area. The students rehearse each Thursday night at Idaho Falls High School.
“These kids are gifted, fun and excited,” he said. “I really, really have enjoyed it.”
Nielsen, a former faculty member at BYU-Idaho, now teaches music for School District 91 at both Taylorview Middle School and the Compass Academy in Idaho Falls.
Tickets for the Center Stage concert are $10 for the general public and $5 for BYU-Idaho students. Tickets can be purchased at the BYU-Idaho Ticket Office, by calling 496-3170 or online at tickets.byui.edu.
The concert will be repeated the following night at Hillcrest High School in Idaho Falls.
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