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SPECIAL EVENTS The Society hosts numerous events throughout the year. These include a variety of fund-raisers, children’s concerts for fourth grade students, a music van to third grade classrooms, master classes and special music events throughout the valley. We also host an annual Members’ Dinner Meeting in June of each year.
	September 5, 2010 Overture in Ambrosia Ambrosia Restaurant 2:00 - 4:00 pm

	January 22, 2011 Annual Dinner & Auction Santa Maria Country Club 5:30 pm

	April 2, 2011 Riders of the Purple Sage Clark Center, Arroyo Grande 7:30 pm

	May 13, 2011 Piano for Six Hands Clark Center, Arroyo Grande 7:30 pm

	CHILDREN’S CONCERTS The Santa Maria Philharmonic Society is proud to present annually our Children’s Concerts to all the fourth graders in the Santa Maria Valley. We currently host two concerts in November and two concerts in February, with a total attendance of approximately 2000 students. There is a tremendous amount of organization and coordination with the school systems, and a load of bus trips – but the kids love it and are very well behaved. We are very grateful to Pacific Christian Center for allowing us to use their spacious facilities. The children, as always, are transfixed as each instrument is demonstrated for them by principal musicians of the orchestra under the direction of Maestro John Farrer. The full concert presentation of Peter and the Wolf composed by Sergei Prokofiev keeps the students riveted to their seats throughout the program.

	THE MUSIC VAN The Music Van arrives in late April of each year and travels to all of the elementary schools in the Santa Maria Valley giving a short presentation to the third grade classrooms. We work with small groups of 10 to 15 students and give them all an opportunity to discover the various instruments of the orchestra and actually perform on them. This is a highlight of their experience. The van is donated by Toyota-Scion of Santa Maria for the nine-weeks of the program’s operation. The Santa Maria Philharmonic Society rents the music instruments from the Santa Barbara Symphony Children’s Program.

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Photos from the
2009
Annual Fund Raising Dinner and Auction
"IT'S MAGIC"

L-R) Marsha Botello (cello),
Jed Beebe (viola),
Lynne Garrett (violin)
and Tom Turner (viola)
All members of the Santa Maria Philharmonic Orchestra

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