Lebanon Valley College Hosts Sinfonia Province Concert

Concert, April 11, 7:30 p.m., Lutz Hall

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Lebanon Valley College will host Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia’s Province Concert Saturday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Lutz Hall of Blair Music Center.

ANNVILLE, PA (03/27/2015)(readMedia)-- Lebanon Valley College will host Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia's Province Concert Saturday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Lutz Hall of Blair Music Center. The concert is in memory of the late Walter Lake Smith Jr. '61, P'03, director emeritus of special services at Lebanon Valley College. The performance is free and open to the public.

The concert features Province 21 of Sinfonia, which spans central and eastern Pennsylvania. The province consists of eight chapters (Lebanon Valley College, Penn State, Moravian College, Mansfield University, Temple University, West Chester University, Kutztown University, and Susquehanna University) and one colony (Lincoln University). Each chapter will perform a piece that best showcases their talents. The province will also perform a number of jazz charts as well as a few group choral numbers.

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is the world's oldest and largest secret national fraternal society in music. Sinfonia was born on Oct. 6, 1898, at the New England Conservatory in Boston, when a group of 13 young men organized under the guidance of Ossian Everett Mills "to consider the social life of the young men students of that institution [and] to devise ways and means by which it might be improved." Sinfonia became a national fraternity on Oct. 6, 1900, with the admission of a group of men at the Broad Street Conservatory in Philadelphia. For more than a century, Sinfonians in nearly every field of study and professional endeavor have transformed music in America. The opportunity of becoming a Sinfonian is offered to as many men as possible who, through a love for music, can assist in the fulfillment of the fraternity's object and ideals either by adopting music as a profession, or by working to advance the cause of music in America.

The LVC's Iota Kappa chapter, founded at the College in 1960, has received the Charles E. Lutton Award for the best chapter in the state. Sinfonia sponsors the annual Reynaldo Rovers All-American Concert, the annual Walt Smith Memorial Recital, and the spring musical in cooperation with the Wig and Buckle Dramatic Society.

Lebanon Valley College offers numerous public performances by students, faculty, and guests of the College throughout the semester, many of them free and open to the public. For the list of recitals this spring, visit www.lvc.edu/music/events.aspx.