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New York wants Stivers Orchestra
Dayton’s Stivers School for the Arts Jazz Orchestra has been invited to perform in the New York City Jazz Festival on March 4, 2012, at Lincoln Center.
The festival features top college and university jazz performers plus just four high school ensembles from across the country.
The Stivers group, directed by Claude Thomas, won the prestigious 2010 Berklee College of Music National High School Jazz Festival.
A benefit concert to raise funds for the New York trip will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, in Centennial Hall at Stivers, 1313 E. Fifth St. The program will include composer and trumpeter Derrick Gardner, who travels with Harrick Connick Jr. and the Count Basie Orchestra.
General admission tickets for the benefit concert are $10, online at www.theseedlings.org or by calling (937) 546-1675. Reserved-seat patron tickets are $50 and include a pre-performance reception with Gardner.
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By john q.
December 24, 2011 3:50 PM | Link to this
Congrats to them. Does DPS provide music education at any other high schools?
By null
December 24, 2011 5:00 PM | Link to this
Congratulations to this fine ensemble. Hope to hear these future monster players on 1/21. Dayton has always been a music town. Glad these young people are carrying on the tradition.
By dhutt
December 24, 2011 5:03 PM | Link to this
Not really Stivers is it they really hurt the rest of the district when they went grades 7-12 hurting Colonel White H.S. program and other schools as well.
By null
December 29, 2011 5:59 PM | Link to this
“Hurting other schools,” really?? Wow. These kids have put in a lot of work to get to where they are. Stivers is a 6-year program designed to cultivate our youth’s talent, not take away from other schools. Now that instrumental music is being phased out of all of our elementary schools, I’m just glad that Stivers hasn’t lost its edge in the arts. Way to go, jazz orchestra & all of the Stivers arts magnets! You rock!!