Langley Orchestra

Langley Orchestra concludes the year with the Vive la France Concert on Tuesday, May 21st. The concert honoring our Class of 2024 featured many pieces composed by French composers like Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré.

Concert Orchestra started the night with Jean Joseph Mouret’s Rondeau, followed by Ferdinand Hérold’s Zampa Overture, and ended with Alan Menken’s Beauty & The Beast. The Junior Orchestra continued the show with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera featuring Aiden Mousavi on the organ, Hector Berlioz’s Hungarian March, and Jacques Offenbach’s Can-Can. Next, the Philharmonic Orchestra performed Danse Macabre featuring soloist Audrey Goodner, and Danse Bacchanale, with both pieces composed by Camille Saint-Saëns. They ended their performance with Dean Marshall’s Sainte Patrice, and a huge shoutout to Senior Fiddlers Tano Chun, Finn Fitzgerald, Alina Liu, Amanda Chung, Audrey Goodner, Jasmine Alcorn, Sophie Lin, and Cristina Pak. Also shoutout to the guitars Luke Butler and Matthew Han, as well as Griffin Krupp on electric bass. Additionally, a huge thank you to the number of Langley Band students who played in Hungarian March, Can-Can, Danse Macabre, and Danse Bacchanale!

Finally, the Senior Orchestra put on a spectacular performance of highlights from Bublil & Schönberg’s Les Misérables, Gabriel Fauré’s Pavane, and music from Michael Giacchino’s Ratatouille. After presenting Doc with a new conducting baton by the senior class, the senior orchestra played Viva La Vida from Coldplay as the audience watched the Class of 2024’s college destinations. The concert program and senior slideshow can be found below:

Thank you to photographer Mr. Farid for his amazing concert photos! Above are a few, and the rest can be found in this Shutterfly link.

Edward Park

Our final concert of the school year – “Vive la France” – is French-themed and will take place at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, May 21 in the Langley auditorium. As always, our concert is free and will be recorded.

Students are asked to wear their formal gowns and tuxedos along with black closed-toe shoes.

Meal Plan

For those students signed up for the Orchestra Meal Plan, we will be serving a French-themed dinner beginning at 5:00 pm in the cafeteria. The main entree will be Chicken Bearnaise, along with baguettes, French cheeses, and salad with choice of blue cheese or vinaigrette dressings. (A platter of meat-substitute tenders will also be available). Dessert will be a variety of delicious French confectioneries, including cream puffs, eclairs, chocolate truffles, madeleines, palmiers, and macarons. We look forward to seeing you there!

Hospitality Volunteers and Food Donations Needed

Please click this link to the SignUp Genius to help with the pre-concert dinner or to donate food and/or volunteer to help with our Langley Hall hospitality reception area. We especially encourage senior parents to sign up to help with the pre-concert dinner for our final concert!

Senior Boys, Please Consider Donating Your Tuxedos to LOS

We invite seniors with tuxedos to please consider donating them after the final concert. Donated tuxedos will be dry cleaned by LOS, and sold to incoming new students next year, with net proceeds going to LOS. A bin will be placed in the orchestra room to collect donated tuxedos starting May 22. (Please note we are switching to a commercial vendor for our signature black velvet and green taffeta gowns beginning next year, so we will no longer be collecting the custom-made gowns).

Congratulations to Audrey Goodner (violin), Amilya Smith (cello), and Finn Fitzgerald (viola) who represented Langley High School at the Virginia All-State Orchestra Concert in Richmond on Saturday, April 20. Special congratulations goes to Audrey who was concertmaster for the second year in a row at this prestigious event!