In Friday’s (12/23) Courier-News (Elgin, Illinois), Mike Danahey writes, “If you happened to be at Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee a couple Fridays before Christmas and heard a young string ensemble from Elgin’s Westminster Christian School bringing holiday cheer to center court, you witnessed one of the first public performances by the budding musicians. ‘The group started only three months ago and meets before school at 7 a.m. two days per week,’ said their director, Andrew Anderson. ‘They are a really exceptional group of kids. The carols they played today, they just learned in a week.’ And in Anderson, the youngsters have an instructor with some pretty impressive credentials, too. Anderson is a bassist with the Lyric Opera in Chicago. In summer, he also plays with the Grant Park Orchestra. Anderson started with the Lyric when he was 26. Now 33, he remains the youngest member of his section, and he knows he is fortunate—blessed even—to be among an elite group of performers doing what he does.” Anderson’s work with the Lyric Opera and Grant Park Orchestra “also has led to teaching at Roosevelt University in Chicago and at the Wheaton Conservatory.”
Posted December 23, 2011
