Culver City High School’s acclaimed Academy of Visual and Performing Arts will present its Fall Music Concert next Thursday evening at 7 at the Vets Auditorium.
The Concert Band, String Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combo, and Chamber Singers all will perform, showcasing their disparate talents.
The String Orchestra will perform Trick-or- Treat: A Halloween Fantasy for Pizzicato Strings by Ferde Grofé.
The Chamber Singers will perform a medley from the Broadway smash hit Wicked, along with music from Harry Potter.
To celebrate the Culver City Centennial, the Jazz Ensemble will feature the song Blue Moon, which was written for the MGM film “Manhattan Melodrama” in 1934.
The Concert Band will also perform The Symphonic Gershwin, including music from An American in Paris, filmed at MGM
in 1951. Additional music from Nightmare Before Christmas will also be featured.
This entertaining evening of music and haunted surprises will include a pre-concert Trick-or-Treat Carnival for younger children who show up in costume between 6 o’clock and 6:45.
A food truck will be posted outside of the Vets Auditorium between the hours of 5 and 7.
See www.avpa.org
