In Thursday’s (11/10) Topeka Capital-Journal (Kansas), Bill Blankenship writes, “Those attending Sunday afternoon’s concert by the Topeka Symphony Youth Ensembles will see a new conductor at the helm of the senior of the three orchestras. Jeremy Starr will make his debut as conductor of the Topeka Symphony Youth Orchestra at the first concert of its 54th season at 3 p.m. Sunday in White Concert Hall. … Starr succeeds Steven Elisha, who took a teaching position at a Georgia university, as director of the most experienced of the ensemble comprised of area high school instrumentalists. Starr serves as director of orchestras and head of string studies at Emporia State University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in violin performance from Brigham Young University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in orchestral conducting from the University of Iowa. Under Starr’s direction, the Youth Orchestra will perform the overture to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera ‘La clemenza di tito,’ K. 621; Gabriel Faure’s Pavane, Op. 50; and the first movement of Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor, known as the ‘Unfinished Symphony.’ ”
Posted November 10, 2011
