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HANNIBAL â The Hannibal Area String Orchestra will present its annual Spring Concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 8, in the Roland Fine Arts Center, 2800 Palmyra Rd. in Hannibal. The orchestra will play folk music from around the world.
Currently the organization is made up of three groups: the Beginning and Intermediate String Orchestras, both directed by Katie Schisler, and the Advanced String Orchestra, directed by John Ferguson. The string orchestra currently has about 40 members, including piano and percussion on some pieces.
The beginning orchestra explores folk songs from around the world with a Finnish Folk Song Suite, French Dance and a jungle inspired Rain Festival. This orchestra is honored to premiere an original work by Perry, Ill. composer William Camphouse. âAll Quiet Along the Potomac Tonightâ is an arrangement of an old Civil War tune by John Hill Hewitt with words from a poem by Irene Hunt. The piece tells of a Union soldier on a night watch fondly think