George School's orchestra and chorus will perform a concert with the Wind Symphony of Southern New Jersey on Sunday, April 17, 2005, at 2:00 p.m. in Walton Center Auditorium at George School. The concert is free and open to the public.

Directed by Dr. Robert J. Streckfuss, a professor of music at the University of Delaware, the Wind Symphony of Southern New Jersey is an adult ensemble that performs eight concerts each year and has toured England and Austria. The Wind Symphony has also performed for both the Music Educators National Conference and the College Band Directors National Association.

Selections for Sunday's performance will include "Suite of Old American Dances" by Robert Russell Bennett, "Variations on America" by Charles Ives, and the Suite from Candide by Leonard Bernstein.

The George School Orchestra will join the Wind Symphony to perform the music of Howard Shore from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, "Jupiter: The Bringer of Jollity" from The Planets by Gustav Holst, and "Beatles Medley," which consists of songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Sunday's concert will be the Wind Symphony's third performance with the George School Orchestra and sixth performance on the George School campus. Karen Hallowell, the director of the George School Orchestra, was a member of the Wind Symphony from 1967 to 1998.

All George School students take four year-long courses in the arts. In addition to instrumental and vocal music, the arts department offers courses in theater arts, dance, video production, journalism, painting and drawing, woodworking and furniture design, ceramics, and photography. The arts department encourages students to be creative and enjoy themselves while they practice and appreciate a specific art form. In addition, students learn to be discriminating when they evaluate their own and others' work. 

About George School 
George School, founded in 1893 by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), teaches that each person shares a responsibility for helping to make the world a better place. The student body is diverse, representing twenty states and thirty foreign countries and a variety of ethnic, racial, religious, academic, and economic backgrounds. Each year more than $4 million in need-based financial aid is provided to eligible students.