SEE1 Concert two days away

sold-out event featuring Mark Wood

By: Rashmi Borah

February 22nd, 2008, is only two days away. For the last two weeks, the members of the Sycamore Electric Ensemble have been rehearsing diligently, preparing music for this year’s sold-out concert.
   “We’ve had orders come in like crazy,” said Mr. David Smarelli, SEE1 director. “We had one come in from Indianapolis.”
   On February 21st and 22nd, the group will be rehearsing with feature performers Mark Wood and Jeff Plate of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra during the day. Wood will also be giving a workshop to junior high and high school orchestra members on the 21st.
   The SEE1 concert is one of the most anticipated events of the year.
   “I went last year and it was awesome,” said Dana Reinhart, 11.
   Last year, ticket orders were slow to move, but for this year’s concert, ticket orders came in amounts of 10 or 12 at once from all over the Tri-State despite raised ticket prices.
   When the ticket tally was done on Wednesday February 20th, there were only 19 tickets remaining, which will probably sell out soon.
   This year’s repertoire features arrangements of music by Led Zeppelin, Foreigner, The Beatles, Edgar Winter, Jimi Hendrix as well as classical music “turned rock,” such as an arrangement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and Edvard Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt.
   For those who were able to get tickets to this concert, the members of SEE1 guarantee a concert that will sure to have even the most “concert-civil” individuals to “Rock their Bach’s.”