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Great Golf Giveaway Raffle

The SCSO is holding its first ever "Great Golf Giveaway" raffle.  The winner will receive a lifetime membership at Durham Lakes Golf Club a Killearn Company development in Fairburn, GA. valued at $5000, as well as one year of annual dues valued at $2400, for a total prize package of $7400. For the non golfer, the prize is transferable and can be sold.

Raffle tickets are $10 each or 3 for $25 and can be purchased from any symphony member or board of directors member. Raffle tickets will be available at the October and December Concerts and the winner will be notified after the December concert. Except for the winner, ticket cost is a tax deductable contribution to the orchestra. For additional information, Contact Kathy Gilbert, 770-506-0785.

Pianists and Orchestra Celebrate Mozart's 250th Birthday
4.06.2006

Rebecca Thomas and Samantha Johnson (seated)

The Southern Crescent Symphony Orchestra presents a Piano Concerto Concert featuring the winners of the 2006 Coweta/Fayette Music Teachers Association (CFMTA) Concerto Competition: pianists Rebecca Thomas of Bibb County and Samantha Johnson of Coweta County. Works include movements from Mozart’s Piano Concerto in F Major and Wagner’s charming Siegfried’s Idyll.

Thomas is a 15-year-old home schooled student who lives in Lizella (near Macon) and has studied piano for nine years. She has performed at the Georgia Music Educators Association state conference four years in the four hands competition and as a soloist in 2005. She won the Central Georgia Junior Piano Olympics at Georgia College and State University in 2003 and 2004. Thomas has also participated in the GMEA piano performance evaluations where she received superior ratings in performance and sight-reading for four years.

Johnson is a resident of Sharpsburg (Coweta County) and a sophomore at Northgate High School. She has been studying piano for six years and teaches her own piano students. In March, Johnson received a superior rating at a National Federated Music Club event. She also sings as a member of the Northgate Chamber Choir and attended district honors chorus in 2000, 2002 and 2006.