Sunshine Club

Linda DeRung will go over the 60-year history of the LW Orchestra to the Sunshine Club on Friday, May 8, in Clubhouse 3, Room 2, at 10 a.m.

The Leisure World Orchestra once performed in a prison: that’s only one of the stories from the orchestra’s 60-year history. The dozen directors of the orchestra through the years have included a songand- dance man, one of the world’s foremost tuba impresarios, a soprano named to the BBC’s top classical recordings list, and a dentist Since its first performance at an Easter sunrise service in the Amphitheater in 1966, the orchestra has sustained and renewed residents’ love of music. It also stimulated the community’s other resident performing groups, most notably the Velvetones, which began as an orchestra offshoot.

DeRungs will also give a preview for the orchestra’s upcoming performance. The group’s June concert will be a 60th anniversary extravaganza, with Leisure World pianist Yuri Lubatov playing Rachmaninoff’s blockbuster “Concerto No. 2,” along with Copland’s

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