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Show Sponsor: Aquila Theatre's Pride & Prejudice Oct. 27 | Tickets $10! Hocus Pocus Film Screening Oct. 30 | Tickets $10! The Rocky Horror Picture Show Halloween Party Oct. 31 Gaelic Storm Nov. 15 Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra Nov. 20 | Tickets $10! 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 1 5 Media support: NWA Business Journal | KUAF | Ozark Living Series Sponsors: Upcoming Events SCAN for full season listing fayetteville 4 What's up! OctOber 23-29. 2022 SoNA Continued from Page 3 season, that addition takes the form of Battle of the Bands, and we look forward to continuing to take a wide perspective of orchestral music to attract a wider audience. An equally important part of our season is our classical and contemporary programming, so rather than replacing one of our mainstage shows, we instead wanted a thoughtful addition to our season. "Northwest Arkansas is quickly growing and is a community that is supportive of the arts, so we believe there is an appetite for more music by SoNA. We're ready to serve up more fantastic music of all flavors!" Meyer's composition includes many of those eclectic elements, influenced by fate and her childhood on Long Island — where her dad was a folk/ blues guitarist and singer "when he was not at his day job." "When I was little, he used to blare Beethoven symphonies and other classical music on his big stereo in the basement — it was the '70s — that made the ceiling shake," Meyer remembers about her father. "One year I got a guitar for Christmas, but I wanted to play the violin. There were great music programs in the public schools, but when I asked for a violin they said they ran out. But because I am tall they gave me a viola. That is the instrument I play and that got me into Juilliard! "I remember getting goosebumps when playing 'Memory' from the musical 'Cats' in fourth-grade orchestra, and I pretty much knew then that I wanted to spend the rest of my life in music," she adds. "I did dabble a bit in writing music in high school, but I stopped and did not pursue that again until I was 40 — and now it is my main vocation." "Go BIG or Go HOME" comes from the last movement of a string quartet that I created for the Nu Deco Ensemble in Miami. "When the opportunity came up for me to make this arrangement, I wanted to both showcase what the group can uniquely do while also writing in a way that captures the spirit of what Miami inherently is," Meyer explains. In addition to giving members of the orchestra a chance to improvise and "put their own personal signature on the piece," it is "most importantly, written from a place of self-realization, empowerment, and celebration of how joyous life can be. Who says going to an orchestra concert can't be fun?"