Simple Gifts - Lyceum Philharmonic at American Heritage School

Filmed at the stunning Thanksgiving Point where we are performing live May 4th as part of the Tulip Festival, see https://www.thanksgivingpoint.org/eve... for tickets! We are all about sharing our “simple gifts” in a way that inspires, instructs, and impacts the community. Whether you are in Utah and can rehearse with us weekly or you fly in from across the country to attend Lyceum Music Festival, we want YOU to be a part of loving music more with us!

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The Backstory: Simple Gifts is the title of our fourth album. We feel like even though we’re just a youth orchestra with very simple gifts to offer, we can use those gifts to lift others with our music. We can lay our gifts at the feet of the Master. We can turn, turn, turn and hopefully we come round right in the end. These high school aged youth arrived before sunrise at the stunning Thanksgiving Point Ashton Gardens dressed in tuxedos. We had to film everything before the grounds opened to the public and were supposed to film the week before but a rainstorm that day caused us to postpone a week. We soon learned that there was a 5k run scheduled to pass right through the gardens that morning so we setup beneath the majestic waterfalls and started filming before sunrise in hopes of getting those shots without sweaty joggers passing by. As we were finishing up in that location you can imagine the surprise of the runners as they came around the corner only to see a symphony orchestra dressed in tuxedos playing music at the base of a waterfall at sunrise! Needless to say, we ruined some of their times as they stopped to take it all in.

Ashleigh Richardson from Ballet West II generously joined us for this video. She really is the star of the show. She was so humble and adventurous flitting through the forest glens, flowery fields, and couldn’t have been more sincere in presenting her gifts.

Other gift givers also included:

Nathan (trumpet) – a remarkable young man who volunteers his time to help our young musicians and make music while preparing to become a doctor.

Kendra (violin) – Kendra recently graduated from high school and is studying nursing and music on scholarship. She has chosen to dedicate the next 18 months of her life to serving a full-time mission for her church.

Conner (football) – Conner received a scholarship to play Division 1 football as a 16 year old sophomore. Shortly after filming this video he left to serve a two-year, full-time mission in urban Washington D. C. putting on hold his promising football career to serve God.

Angela Johnson (sculptor) – Angela created the amazing bronze sculptures featured in the video. These larger than life representations of Christ are located at Thanksgiving Point in special “Light of the World Garden.” Angela is also a classically trained singer both her spirit and her art resonated perfectly with the message we were hoping to share. Find out more about her at http://ajsculptures.com/

Credits:
Music arr. by Kayson Brown
Conducted and produced by Kayson Brown
Performed by: Lyceum Philharmonic at American Heritage School
Video Production by ARK Studios Media Group, LLC
Email: [email protected] Website: www.arkstudiosmediagroup.com

Special Thanks to Thanksgiving Point for providing the amazing setting! See https://www.thanksgivingpoint.org