Legend II
Friday, May 17, 2019 at 11:30:00 PM UTC
Victoria Marra, Conductor
With Guest Artists Andy Slimak and Emma Shelnutt from Starz Ballroom
The Bronze Horse - Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Finlandia, Opus 26, No. 7 - Jean Sibelius
Berceuse and Finale from the Firebird - Igor Stravinsky
Victory at Sea - Richard Rodgers
Song of the High Seas • Submarines in a Calm Sea • Beneath the Southern Cross - Guadalcanal March • Theme of Growing and Building - Fiddlin’ off Watch • The Sunny Pacific Islands • The Approaching Enemy • Death and Debris • Hymn of Victory • Song of the High Seas
Tales from the Vienna Woods, Opus 325 - Johann Strauss, Jr
Two South American Tangos: El Choclo, La Cumparsita - arr. Merle Isaac
Andy Slimak and Emma Shelnutt, Ballroom Dancers
La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) - Gioacchino Rossini
La Paloma (The Dove), Spanish Serenade - C. Yradier
Andy Slimak and Emma Shelnutt, Ballroom Dancers
Rakoczy March - Traditional Hungarian arr. N. Clifford Page
This evening’s concert is made possible through the generous support of Bill Zychowski and Wendy Andrzejewski. Thank you to all of our supporters for another wonderful season!
Guest Artist
Emma Shelnutt is a freshman at Olmsted Falls High School in Olmsted Falls, Ohio. Now 14 years old, Emma has been dancing with her partner Andy Slimak (of Starz Ballroom in Westlake) for 6 years. She is familiar with both rhythm and smooth dances, and has competed in several ballroom competitions. She is an avid reader, likes to cook, and is active in the fine arts. Emma will be participating in her second year of Golden Bullettes, the Olmsted Falls High School Drill Team, this upcoming school year. The thing she loves most about dance is that it has brought her two new families: the one in her studio at Starz Ballroom, and the sisterhood of her high school team.
Guest Artist
Andy Slimak has been a professional ballroom dancer/coach for the better part of a decade. Working with franchised and independent studios since 2007, Andy’s dancing has taken him all over Ohio as well as the rest of the country. Andy is a Silver certified and award winning teacher as the Fred Astaire Rising Star Champion of 2007 and 2008 as well as the Mixed/Novice Champion of 2009. Cleveland’s Dancing With the Stars Champion of 2009 and the Greater Cleveland Diabetes Dancing with the Stars Champion of 2016. Andy’s students have also won many awards and accolades including Top Junior Students from 2007-2009 (4x shared by 3 students) as well as numerous Top Overall Student Awards (local, regional and national). Andy’s teachers and coaches include: Karina Smirnoff, Tony Dovolani, Kimberly Mitchell, Bill Sparks, Rosando Fumero, Anderson Sylvestre and many more. Andy’s love of dance is owed to his parents and grandparents who from a very young age had him watching Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies in amazement. As well as a professional ballroom dancer Andy holds a degree is Theater and Performance Arts from Cleveland State University while performing with various local and professional theatrical groups throughout Northeast Ohio including in 2007 in the World Community Theater debut of CATS at the Cassidy Theater in Parma Hts, Ohio. “Thank you to Symphony West Orchestra for the opportunity not only to showcase one of my wonderful students but to perform with such talented people!”
