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Bill Leggett is the Lewisville Lake Symphony’s 2005 Angel

Bill gets his Angel from Mary Neel, Chair of the GLAC

“He is one of those "dream volunteers" that all organizations would like to clone,”
 

Young Artists Competition

Jay  Santage of Texas-New Mexico Power makes a presentation to winner Miranda Joy Ha while Bill Leggett waits to make the house announcements

The Symphony's Principal Cello, Dan Lewis, talks with winner Shih after the 'Stars of the Future' concert

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Mother flies 7,500 miles to hear award winning daughter play with Lewisville Lake Symphony

(L to R  Grace Kim, Maestro Adron Ming, daughter and prize winner Rebekah Kim, her Texas teacher Hyangmee Kim of UNT

Grace Kim flew 7,500 miles from Auckland, New Zealand to Lewisville so she could hear her daughter Rebekah perform as a guest artist in the Lewisville Lake Symphony’s ‘Stars of the Future’ concert on Friday February 10. Rebekah was a Grand Prize winner in the Symphony’s Young Artists competition and received a standing ovation for performing the difficult Mendelssohn Piano concerto, No 1.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Rebekah Kim began playing the piano at age 5, and started to learn music from professional teachers when she was 9. Soon after she entered the Yewon Arts Middle School, her whole family immigrated to New Zealand. She continued to study the piano and achieved top scores in several music examinations given by the London-based international Associated Board of the Royal Schools.

She and her family decided that she would gain a wider experience of music if she came to America. She came here alone and is now a hardworking student in her junior year at Liberty Christian School.

Because Grace Kim, her mother, is not fluent in English, the Symphony arranged for Ms. Do Young Kim of UNT to act as translator for the award ceremony before the concert got under way.

Later, using the translator, Mrs. Kim said she was overwhelmed by the kindness and hospitality shown to her by the Lewisville Lake Symphony volunteers, the orchestra, and the conductor. She was also grateful for the tremendous opportunity for Rebekah to perform for the first time with a professional orchestra.

Rebekah explained that although she, her teacher Hyangmee Kim and the concert translator Do Yong Kim and all shared a last name, they were not related. Kim, she noted, is the most common name in South Korea taking up a significant part of every city’s phone book.
 

Past Symphony Association chair, Duane Johnson and Maestro Adron Ming meet audience members after a concert

Fundraisers

Guests at 'Soiree' fundraiser inspect the items to be auctioned

Guests at 'An Evening with Rodgers and Hammerstein, Gershwin, and Sondheim' 
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