Entertainment — Orchestra to play season’s end concert

The Sequim Community Orchestra will hold its final concert of the 2016-2017 season at 7 p.m. Friday, May 19, at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave., Sequim.

The concert concludes the sixth season of the SCO and will include a viola solo by music director Phil Morgan-Ellis and guest conductor Mary Moon, former principal violin for the Port Angeles Symphony, during a performance of Telemann’s Viola Concerto in G. Other selections include “Siegfried-Idyll” by Wagner and “Aragonaise” from the composition “Carmen.”

There is no charge to attend the concert, though donations are gladly accepted. The SCO is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization which provides education on stringed instruments to students in Sequim. Now in its fourth year of offering classes, the SCO has more than 40 students in three classes. Run almost entirely by volunteers, all money raised by the SCO, after concert expenses, is used to support the education of these students.

This year, the Sequim Community Christmas Chorus selected the SCO String Kids program as the beneficiary of its concert proceeds and Gail Sumpter will be at the concert on May 19 to present the donation to SCO board president Beth Pratt. For more information, contact Pratt at president@ sequimcommunityorchestra.org or 460-7368.