Youth orchestra to perform on campus this Sunday

The East Central Illinois Youth Orchestra will perform a concert at Smith Recital Hall in Urbana this Sunday, January 16, at 7pm.

The orchestra is made up of 49 students from the local area including Champaign, Urbana, Mahomet, Monticello, and Danville. Each student must audition for a spot in the program run by The Conservatory of Central Illinois. The young musicians are among the top high school classical instrumentalists in the area.

"We’ve been preparing since mid-September, with weekly rehearsals on Sunday afternoons at the Krannert Center," said Kevin Kelly, Conductor and Program Director. "The orchestra plays professional-level music from the standard orchestral repertoire, which presents expressive and technical challenges and tremendous learning opportunities for talented, highly motivated student musicians."

The program includes Giuseppe Verdi Overture to The Force of Destiny, Camille Saint-Saëns Danse Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah, and Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor and No. 6 in D Major.

"This particular program has two selections drawn from operas—by Verdi and Saint-Saëns—two influenced by national styles of particular countries—the Irish dances of Arnold and the Hungarian dances of Brahms—and a movement from a celebrated symphony by Dvořák, who was a protege of Brahms," Kelly said. "Some of the tunes will be quite familiar to classical music fans, but all of it can easily be enjoyed by even the novice listener."

The concert is free to the general public and proof of vaccination or negative COVID test is required for admission.

The musicians for Sunday's program include:

Violin: Noel Chi, co-concertmaster, Jenna Shin, co-concertmaster, Elijah Song, co-concertmaster, Sierra Freund, assistant concertmaster, Emily Duong, Sarah Guo, Andrew Kim, Maggie Li, Wesley Lu, Swarup Majumder, Elan Pan, Shreyas Singh, Bruce Tang, Maya Viswanathan, Max Wang, Renee Wang, Emily Wilson, James Yan, and Dan Yang.

Viola: Sarah Kim, principal and Advait Rajmane.

Cello: Yelim Kim, principal, Ellie Kim, Sarah Su, Jeana To, Firmiana Wang, and Jason Yan.

Bass: Kalah Weber, principal and April Vanichtheeranont.

Flute: Grace To, principal, Hewitt Friedman, Elizabeth Su, and Jonas VisGirda.

Piccolo: Jonas VisGirda.

Oboe: William Ding, principal, and Ioelle Lee.

Clarinet: Benjamin Chang, co-principal, Stefania Dzhaman, co-principal, and Teo Percoco.

Bassoon: Christian Deck.

Horn: Owen Robinson, principal, and Mason Miao.

Trumpet: Gabe Difanis, co-principal, and Aaron Rosenstein, co-principal.

Trombone: Roman Di Girolamo, principal and Jack Minor, and Nick Wurl (guest).

Tuba: Owen Ericson.

Piano: D. J. Wang.

Timpani: Elianna Lee.

Percussion: Jason Kim

Area COVID-19 Dashboard for January 13, 2022

The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District reported two additional fatalities due to the Covid-19 pandemic bringing the death toll to 10 from the viral disease in January. A total of 238 individuals from the county have succumbed to the disease.

Locally on Thursday, 247 new positive tests were reported. There are now 3,072 active cases currently in The Sentinel's reporting area.

Active Champaign County Cases:

7,109

Net change in the county: 96

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Current local cases 1/13/22

Number in parenthesis indicates new cases since 1/12/22

Ogden • 46 (7)
Royal • 10 (1)
St. Joseph • 250 (30)
Urbana • 2462 (187)
Sidney • 48 (2)
Philo • 64 (4)
Tolono • 140 (12)
Sadorus • 20 (2)
Pesotum • 32 (2)

Total Active Local Cases:

3,072

Net change in local cases: 2

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Total Local Confirmed Cases: 18,550

New cases: 247

The information on this page is compiled from the latest figures provide by the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District and the Illinois Department of Public Health at the time of publishing. Active cases are the number of confirmed cases reported currently in isolation. Local is defined as cases within the nine communities The Sentinel covers.

St. Joseph Futbol Club sets registration dates for spring soccer program

Registration for the St. Joseph Futbol Club and the upcoming spring youth soccer season starts on Tuesday, February 1. Kids in grades from kindergarten thru 8th grade may sign up until February 25. Parents will not be able to register their athletes after that day.

The match season is slated to kick off the weekend of April 9 and will run through May 21. There will be no games during the Easter weekend April 15-17. Players must be at least 5 years old by opening day order to participate.

The registration fee for Kindergarten age players is $55, $60 for grades 1 through 4, and $65 for 5th through 8th-grade athletes.

Matches and practice times have not been set. Times and dates for both will be announced for each team by coaches.

The St. Joseph program is also seeking volunteer coaches.

For more information, contact the club administrators at sjfcspartans@gmail.com.

Tonight's game line-up online for area teams

Tonight's Live NFHS Broadcasts

January 13, 2022

URBANA HIGH SCHOOL

Boys Freshman Basketball @ Danville | 6:00 PM Central
Girls Varsity Basketball @ Danville | 6:00 PM Central

ST. JOSEPH-OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL

Girls Sophomore Basketball @ Illinois Valley | 5:30 PM Central
Girls Varsity Basketball @ Illinois Valley | 7:00 PM Central

UNITY HIGH SCHOOL

Girls Junior varsity Basketball vs Rantoul | 5:30 PM Central
Girls Middle school Volleyball vs Westville | 6:00 PM Central
Girls Varsity Basketball vs Rantoul | 7:00 PM Central

Click here to watch these games live or on demand tonight

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