HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 | 7:30PM

School for Creative & Performing Arts

Oh the joy!
315 years of birthdays and anniversaries to celebrate in one sitting. We hope you are party-hardened! So, here it is: 200 years of Ludwig's Ninth, 50 years of your favorite orchestra, 10 years of the Summermusik festival, and ... ah, but we won't tell you that last one just now. It'll be a surprise!
So, we close the festival with a birthday party, but we are mostly the guests. It is YOU, our audience, that we'll be celebrating, because without your support of 50, 10, or any number of years, tonight would not have been possible.
We are embracing you this evening and hope you will join in when soloists and choir intone the immortal, beloved words 'Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum'! ('Joy, beautiful spark of Divinity, daughter of Elysium, we enter, drunk with fire, Heavenly one, thy sanctuary!')