SOCSA PRESENTS THE 2009 SPRING MUSICAL COMEDY ONCE UPON A MATTRESS Buy Your Tickets Online Now! 40+ Opera Night Performers Sing A Neighbor's Chorus to SOCSA Foundation's President, Alan Wickstrom. :-) Photo Courtesy of Drysdale Imagery From their very humble beginnings six years ago, SOCSA's Opera Night has come a long way to not only promote and educate today's high school performers in the art of Opera, but to become one of the SOCSA Foundation's largest fundraising events in support of arts education. The student's 3 performances this year were a culmination of two months of Saturday rehearsals, workshops, two wonderful and very informative Master Classes, and individual and group voice lessons in opera performance. SOCSA's Opera Night was an All-Orange County Invitational Concert and Fundraising Gala featuring select talented and award-winning young vocalists. For those selected, SOCSA Foundation provided Opera workshops, individual vocal lessons and master classes from Opera professionals. This year's event included over 40 performers from 6 Orange County High Schools, include the South Orange County School of the Arts at Dana Hills High School, South Orange County School of the Arts at Dana Hills High School, San Clemente High School, San Juan Hills High School, the Orange County High School of the Arts, Orange Lutheran and Irvine High School. All these students have benefited greatly from the superb guidance and artistic vocal instruction from SOCSA's Opera Night Program Director, Linda Rose Linnebach, SOCSA's Artistic Director, Ray Woods, SOCSA Opera Night Master Class teachers, Maestro Stefano Vignati from the International Lyric Academy in Rome/Virterbo and Gary Glaze, USC Professor of Vocal Arts and Opera. Their expert vocal coaching and advice to SOCSA's Opera Night young singers provided an immediate and long-lasting profound impact on the student performers. The SOCSA Foundation wishes to thank this year's SOCSA Opera Night Chairs, Amer and Rola Jneid, and their committee of dedicated volunteers for making this year's event a huge success! To learn more about SOCSA's Opera Night, please visit SOCSArts.org/opera.php. To view the printed program from SOCSA's 2009 Opera Night, OPERA CELEBRATION, please download the PDF file by clicking here (13MB). Or BUY YOUR COPY OF THE 2009 SOCSA OPERA NIGHT ONLINE NOW! The next SOCSA Foundation Board meeting is this Monday, April 13, 2009 at 7pm in the Choir Room of Dana Hills High School. All members are welcome and encouraged to attend. We hope you find our email newsletter interesting and informative. If you have any questions, feel free to call me at 949.842.0594 or send me an eMail... Let us know how you would like to contribute to arts education in your community. Cordially, Alan Wickstrom 2007-09 SOCSA Foundation Board President eMail: president@SOCSArts.org ~ Cell: 949.842.0594 SOCSA Academy and Foundation, South Orange County School of the Arts PO Box 3174, Dana Point, CA 92629-8174 SOCSA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Web: http://www.SOCSArts.org DONATE TODAY: secure.SOCSArts.org/donation.shtml

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