The Richmond Delta Youth Orchestra presents Light Eternal Saturday in Richmond.
The symphony orchestra's spring concert is dedicated to Wallace Leung, a former RDYO student, colleague and music director, who passed away suddenly in 2002.
The concert will include RDYO concerto competition winner Samantha
Kung with Edoard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole and a special performance of Canadian composer John Estacio's Light Eternal that will feature RDYO principal cellist Alanna Hunter. Light Eternal was commissioned by the CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra in 2005 as a tribute to Leung.
The Second Symphony by Beethoven and Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio
Espagnol will also be on the program.
The concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Richmond Pentecostal Church, 9300 Westminster Hwy.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and students 13 and up, and free for children 12 and under.
For more information contact 604-365-3584, [email protected] or visit www.rdyo.ca.
