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The Ann Arbor Public Schools Music Department presents its annual Orchestra Night at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Hill Auditorium, 825 N. University Ave. Admission is free and open to the public.

The annual concert showcases the orchestras of all six Ann Arbor middle schools plus Skyline, Huron. and Pioneer high schools. More than 800 students perform in this annual event featuring the string department.

Four special guests have been engaged for the evening. Christopher Kendall, dean of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance, will conduct the Pioneer orchestras. Retired AAPS director E. Daniel Long will guest conduct the Skyline and Slauson orchestras. Ann Arbor Symphony cellist Sarah Cleveland will coach the Huron, Forsythe, Ann Arbor Open and Forsythe orchestras; and University of Michigan string education professor Michael Hopkins will coach the Tappan and Clague orchestras.

The Huron Symphony Orchestra will perform the second movement of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and excerpts from Moussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. The Pioneer Symphony Orchestra will perform Bernstein’s Overture to Candide and Danzon No. 2 by Marquez.

The Ann Arbor Public Schools are well known for the quality of their music education programs. Both Huron and Pioneer high schools have been recognized multiple times as Grammy Signature Schools, an honor given to the top one hundred public school music departments nationwide.

For more information, call 734-994-2314.