'Around the World in 80 Minutes' Orchestra Performance to Take Place in Summit

The following information was provided by the NJ Intergenerational Orchestra.

Join the New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra at a free concert as they take a musical journey “Around the World in 80 Minutes” on Saturday April 20^th, 7:30pm at Summit High School. Guest Conductor Todd Doan and the orchestra will take the audience on a musical adventure that includes Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s brilliant encapsulation of Spanish folk tunes in Cappricio Espagnol and French composer Camille Saint-Saën’s exotic Danse Bacchanale from Samson and Delila. The musical journey also includes Australian born composer Percy Grainger’s reminisces of the British Isles with “An Irish Tune from County Derry” (which he wrote while living in America.)  Diana Charos Reilly, the talented Director of New Jersey Youth Symphony’s Flute Choir and Flute Forum, rounds out the orchestra program as the guest artist featured in Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise, an improvisational flute air by Polish composer, Albert Franz Doppler.  This piece evokes images of a spring morning in the Hungarian countryside.  The program continues as Gavin Davies conducts the Intermezzo Orchestra, highlighting additional stops along this musical tour around the world. 

Flute soloist Diana Charos Reilly is a New Jersey native, a graduate of Juilliard pre-college and New Jersey Youth Symphony. She studied at Hartt School of Music and continued her graduate studies at Mason Gross at Rutgers, Ithaca College and Oberlin.  She devotes her time to teaching at schools, universities, Skidmore Summer Flute Institute and privately and as the Artistic Programming Coordinator and Director of Flute Choir and Flute Forum at the NJYS.

Guest Conductor Todd Doan, with sixteen years of conducting and teaching experience, currently teaches at Cicely L. Tyson School of the Performing Arts in East Orange, NJ. He received degrees in Music Education and Orchestral Conducting from the University of South Florida and has conducted youth symphonies throughout Florida , New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.

The next stop on this orchestra’s agenda is Washington DC. NJIO has been invited to perform this summer on the Millenium Stage at the Kennedy Center.  First Summit, next the world!

This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by a HEART (History, Education, Arts Reaching Thousands) Grant from the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders, the Summit Area Public Foundation, the Lillian P. Schenck Fund, Tokio Marine Management, Inc., the Provident Bank Foundation, the Standish Foundation and Summit Medical Group.

Location: Summit High School, 125 Kent Place Boulevard, Summit.  For more information regarding this concert, please call (908) 603-7691. Handicap accessible. 

About New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra 
The New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra (NJIO) Bridges the Generations through Music by bringing together musicians of varying ages and musical experiences and backgrounds to study and perform music.  The orchestra promotes education, growth and understanding through the shared experience of musical performance.  Seniors and students work side by side with more experienced players mentoring their fellow performers.  NJIO has over 100 members ranging in age from 6 to over 80. A non-profit organization, NJIO runs programming year-round including orchestras, summer chamber workshops, a cello camp and community outreach from the Judith Wharton Music Center in Berkeley Heights.