In 2006, the fire escaped from the trash can to destroy the library on the San Lorenzo Valley High School campus. Valley residents, led by George Wylie, a SLVUSD school board member, passed a bond measure in 2008. The proceeds were used to build a new library and make improvements to the then-existing Center of Performing Arts. Cost savings achieved in the library construction enabled the district to raze the old PAC and build a new and state-of-the-art PAC that seats 215 patrons. The new SLV PAC opened in February of this year.
On September 13, at 4:00 p.m. the San Lorenzo Valley Foundation for Education will bring Music on the Mountain to the San Lorenzo Valley by inviting Espressivo, a 17 piece orchestra to perform at the new, state of the art PAC located on the SLVHS campus. Espressivo will be led in a program of works by Mozart, Ibert, Wagner and Hindemith by Michel Singher, who has conducted seventy operas in hundreds of performances in Europe and America, and has led many orchestras, including the Berlin Radio Symphony, Seattle Symphony and the Oberlin Orchestra in a performance at Lincoln Center.
This concert will bring to the valley a first of its kind musical performance by world class musicians whose current and prior affiliations include orchestras from San Francisco to Belgium and Israel, and will feature Roy Malan, Espressivo’s concertmaster, recently retired concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet — and current lecturer at UCSC; Arnold Gregorian, recently retired from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Julie Green Gregorian, Baltimore Symphony; Stephen Harrison, Ives Quartet at Stanford University; Susan Volmer, Sacramento Philharmonic; and Linda Burman-Hall, Santa Cruz Baroque Festival.
The San Lorenzo Valley Foundation for Education supports San Lorenzo Valley students in The Arts, Math, Science and Technology through community sponsored grants, scholarships and contributions. This concert is a benefit for SLVUSD schools, and will mark the kick-off of a series of semi-annual performances being planned for the new SLVH PAC.
Come listen to Music on the Mountain on September 13.
