Current News
- The Cypress Lake High School orchestra recieves both superior and gold awards at the Orlandofest music competition.
- On March 5th Prince Albert of Monaco will be attending a reception/dinner at the Art of Olympians museum and a CLCA Orchestra Quartet will be performing at the reception. What a honor!
- CLCA Orchestra students perform with Doug Cameron at the Alliance for the Arts concert .
- The CLCA Orchestra has an outstanding performance at the Fort Myers ArtFest.
Announcements
- We need photos and video of past performances for our website. Please contact us if you would like to see your photos on the website.
- Please contact us if you are a parent or student who has ideas about what type of content you would like to see on your website.
2011-2012 Orchestra Activities
Greetings from CLCA Orchestra Department
Upcoming Events
- January 24th Sidney Berne Davis Art Center Performance
Come hear beautiful music performed by the award winning Cypress Lake Orchestra.
Location: Sidney Berne Davis Art Center
Time: 7:00 pm
- February 1st Chamber Recital Concert
Come hear beautiful music performed by the award winning Cypress Lake Orchestra.
Location: Blackbox at the Center for the Arts
Time: 6:30PM
Cost: $5.00
- April 3rd Orchestra Delights
Come hear beautiful music performed by the award winning Cypress Lake Orchestra.
Location: CLHS Auditorium
Time: 6:30PM
Cost: $5.00
- May 2nd The Senior Tribute
Come hear beautiful music performed by the award winning Cypress Lake Orchestra.
Location: CLHS Auditorium
Time: 6:30PM
Cost: $5.00
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
--Ludwig Van Beethoven
If music be the food of love, play on.
--Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
--Plato
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
--Victor Hugo
Master of Music by Henry Van Dyke
Living forever in temple and picture and statue and song, --
Look how the world with the lights that they lit is illumined and starred,
Brief was the flame of their life, but the lamps of their art burn long!
Where is the Master of Music, and how has he vanished away?
Where is the work that he wrought with his wonderful art in the air?
Gone, -- it is gone like the glow on the cloud at the close of the day!
The Master has finished his work, and the glory of music is -- where?
Once, at the wave of his wand, all the billows of musical sound
Followed his will, as the sea was ruled by the prophet of old:
Now that his hand is relaxed, and his rod has dropped to the ground,
Silent and dark are the shores where the marvellous harmonies rolled!
Nay, but not silent the hearts that were filled by that life-giving sea;
Deeper and purer forever the tides of their being will roll,
Grateful and joyful, O Master, because they have listened to thee, --
The glory of music endures in the depths of the human soul.