2024 Performance

DATE: Sunday, March 3, 2024

TIME: 4 PM

LOCATION: Lake Travis Performing Arts Center

TICKET INFORMATION

• EARLY BIRD PRICING: TICKETS NOW ON SALE!

• EARLY BIRD SEATING PRICES: $50 / $30 / $15

• VIP PACKAGE DEAL: $200 (includes 4 tickets, VIP Buffet Dinner on Saturday, March 2 where you will have the chance to meet the musicians, Maestro Peter Bay and other dignitaries).

PERFORMANCE DETAILS

This performance will feature members of the Austin Symphony Orchestra and talented student musicians with Lake Travis High School performing together on one stage. This is the 4th annual performance, which originally started in 2019 after a collaboration with the Lakeway Arts Committee, Lake Travis ISD and the Austin Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Peter Bay with the Austin Symphony Orchestra will conduct the performance with participation by Anna Macias, director of orchestras for Lake Travis High School and Richard Hicks, director of bands for Lake Travis High School. 

2024 PROGRAM

ACT I: Austin Symphony Orchestra (Peter Bar, Conductor)

Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

• Finale: Allegro

ACT II: Lake Travis High School Orchestra (Anna Macias, Conductor)

O Magnum Mysterium for String Orchestra by Morten Lauridsen, transcribed by Sandra Dackow

ACT III: Lake Travis High School Band (Richard Hicks, Conductor)

The Gallant Seventh by John Philip Sousa

INTERMISSION & RAFFLE

ACT IV: Lake Travis High School Band, Orchestra & Austin Symphony Orchestra (Peter Bay, Conductor)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 

COMMENTS

ASO Conductor and Director Peter Bay regarding a previous performance: "My thanks and gratitude to everyone on the Arts Committee and the City of Lakeway who allowed us the privilege of combining the talents of the wonderful students at Lake Travis High School with those of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. This concert was one of the most gratifying in which I can remember taking part, especially to hear the level of playing from the students rise from the first rehearsal to the concert. And to have such a large and enthusiastic audience present made the experience even more meaningful to us all."

"Thank you so much for your contributions to the orchestra this year," wrote a Lake Travis High School student in a note to Arts Committee Chair Janet Wright. "I am a junior that got to participate in the side by side, and in my almost five years of being in the orchestra program, I have never had such a unique opportunity. It was so fun and I'll never forget it."

HISTORY

The first collaborative performance took place the end of 2019 at the Lake Travis Performing Arts Center. After a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, another performance took place in the Spring of 2022. Arts Committee member Allisyn Martin was a former principal dancer with Ballet Austin, and has known Maestro Peter Bay for over two decades. In 2017, talks began between the two regarding how to bring the Austin Symphony Orchestra to the audiences of Lake Travis. A further conversation began with Arts Committee Chair Janet Wright, along with Maestro Peter Bay, LTISD Fine Arts Director Charles Aguillon, LTISD Orchestra Director Anna Macias and LTISD Band Director Richard Hicks. The conversation helped bring about the collaborative performance you see today. 

After the first performance in 2019, Maestro Peter Bay was so impressed that he decided to give the student musicians more and more roles in the concert in 2022 and 2023. The concert has continued to grow since its beginnings, with the Lakeway Arts Committee, Lake Travis High School and Austin Symphony Orchestra in continued discussions to plan future events for the Lake Travis community. It's not only an opportunity to listen to some amazing classical music from the stellar Austin Symphony Orchestra, but gives the talented students with Lake Travis High School a chance to play with professional musicians in a formal concert experience. The music, performance and smiles will make it a memorable evening. We invite you to come and see for yourself!