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Winston-Salem Symphony Announces Food for Body & Soul Food Drive to Benefit Second Harvest Food Bank at “Orchestral Headliners” Concerts Winston-Salem, NC – The Winston-Salem Symphony today announced a food drive partnership to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina. The Symphony will accept donations of non-perishable food items at its “Orchestral Headliners” concerts on Saturday, February 7th at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, February 8th at 3:00 p.m., and Tuesday, February 10th at 7:30 p.m. All concerts take place at the Stevens Center of the UNC School of the Arts (405 W. Fourth Street). Of the partnership, Symphony Executive Director Merritt Vale said, “Especially during these challenging times, the beautiful music performed by the Winston-Salem Symphony is enriching food for the soul. These times have also created an unprecedented need for enriching food for the body. To help address both of these essential human needs, and in the spirit of creative collaboration, the Winston-Salem Symphony is proud to conduct its Food for Body & Soul Food Drive to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, a member organization of Feeding America.” Vale added, “Our audiences consistently demonstrate a generosity of spirit and dedication to our community. We hope that they will join us in this effort to help the Food Bank support people throughout our community and our region with extraordinary needs. As a small gesture of the Symphony’s gratitude, audience members donating non-perishable food items at February concerts will receive a voucher redeemable for one complimentary ticket to a March, April or May Kicked-Back Classics performance of the Food Drive donor’s choice.” Second Harvest Food Bank Executive Director Clyde Fitzgerald added, “Our organization and the community at large are blessed that the Winston-Salem Symphony cares deeply about helping those who are in great need at this time. Hunger is a significant problem in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County and throughout our 18 county service area in Northwest North Carolina. Our network of 415 partner agencies tell us that the demand for food assistance from their clients is increasing dramatically—from 30% to well over 100%." “The gap between the food assistance that’s desperately needed and our ability to provide it through our agencies is, unfortunately, widening and rapidly so. We need the community’s support right now to donate food and money to help us provide much-needed food to our agencies to feed as many of our hungry neighbors as possible. We need nutritious food like canned fruits and vegetables, canned meats such as tuna and chicken, and boxes of cereal and pasta," he said. "Each person’s contribution can make a meaningful difference in the life of someone who’s suffering from hunger. Every can of food donated to Second Harvest Food Bank is a can of food that someone doesn’t have and badly needs. Hunger is a solvable problem. We thank the Winston-Salem Symphony and the community for being such an important part of the solution.” The “Orchestral Headliners” concert features Winston-Salem Symphony principal players in two works, and the entire orchestra steals the spotlight in a third. Trumpeters Anita Cirba and Kenneth Wilmot are the featured artists in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Trumpets in C Major. Four soloists are performing in Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante, K. 297b: flutist Kathryn Levy, oboist Amanda Gerfin, bassoonist Saxton Rose, and French horn player Robert Campbell. The final work on the program, Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, which engages each section of the orchestra (strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion) as “soloists,” is considered one of the twentieth century’s greatest orchestral masterpieces. Bartók finished the work while in Asheville (North Carolina) in 1943.
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