`ragtime' Stars Again Join Forces

2 Lions Vie For Butkus Award 
Brandon Short And Lavar Arrington Are The First Penn State Players To Be
Finalists For The Honor Since Shane Conlan In 1986.

Saturday, November 13, 1999 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Page: 9C<br><br>





The Wilkes-Wyoming Seminary Community Chamber Orchestra will perform its
first concert of the season at 4 p.m. Sunday. John Michael Vaida directs the
orchestra composed of students and teachers from several area schools. Several
guest artists will be featured during Sunday's performance. They include
Goulnara Mashourova, harpist, and Nancy Sanderson, flutist. Together they will
perform the Mozart Concerto for flute and harp with the Chamber Orchestra.
Mashourova, a native of Russia, is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, as
well as the Juilliard School, where she received bachelor's and master's
degrees. The assistant principal harpist of the New York Philharmonic,
Mashourova is on the faculty of The Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming
Seminary and teaches harp at Seminary as well. Sanderson serves as the
director of The Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary, which is an
international summer program for serious students of music, dance and musical
theater. Formerly the flute teacher at Wilkes University, Sanderson is an
active free-lance flutist and private studio teacher. Conductor Vaida is
chairman of the fine arts program at Wyoming Seminary, where he directs the
126-voice chorale and the award-winning 28-voice Madrigal Singers. He is the
United States representative of the International Choral Network and an
internationally known guest conductor. He also oversees choral activities at
The Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary. The orchestra will be
performing Haydn's Symphony 100 and Handel's Concerto Grosso No. 2. The
concert will be in Wyoming Seminary's Great Hall in the Bank Building, 228
Wyoming Ave., Kingston. The concert is free and open to the public. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
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Wilkes-sem Chamber Orchestra Performs Sunday