By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
Two Missouri Western State University music majors get to
perform with the St. Joseph Symphony Saturday evening in a concert
appropriately entitled The Future’s So Bright.
Senior soprano Sara Poet of St. Joseph will sing, “Sorry Her
Lot Who Loves Too Well” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore.
“I have been working on this piece for two-and-a-half years, really
working to hone in and perfect it,” Poet tells host Barry Birr on the KFEQ
Hotline. “I’ve taken it to competitions. I’ve done it in recitals; a lot of it
in preparation for this.”
Junior trombone player, David Welter, who is from
Stewartsville, will perform “Concerto for Trombone” by Rimsky-Korsakov.
“I’ve been working on this piece for about a year now,” Welter
tells Birr. “So, it’s nice to finally unveil it on a more grand scale than just
a brass studio recital.”
Welter and Poet won a young artists competition during
auditions held in December for the honor of sharing the Missouri Theater stage
with the St. Joseph Symphony.
As for her choice of songs, Poet says the song has grown on
her as she has grown as a music major.
“That’s really my connection with it. It’s kind of a lament
between loyalty to her father and a new found love with a sailor and she’s
caught in between those tides,” Poet says. “Getting to explore those emotions and her
heart cry has been really interesting.”
Poet says she expects to be blown away by the experience of
performing with the symphony.
Welter says he took up the trombone, because his father, a
music teacher, is a trombone player.
“I picked it mainly because I was inspired by my Dad’s work,
but then as time went on, I just kind of started to fall in love with the
instrument and thought, I made the right choice,” Welter says. “Instead of doing
something like trumpet or tuba, I made the right choice by doing trombone. It’s
something that fits me.”
The symphony will conclude the concert with “The Ukrainian,”
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2.
The concert begins at seven o’clock Saturday night at the
Missouri Theater. A public social time will follow at Felix Street Gourmet, at
8th and Felix.
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