Chaparral Spring Concerts to Benefit Japan

Young musicians at Chaparral Middle School will help to raise funds for relief efforts in Japan through the orchestra department's annual spring concerts. 

The two performances on Thursday and Friday night are free of charge, but donations will be accepted to support the Red Cross disaster relief work in Japan following the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck the country last week. 

On Thursday, the Diamond Bar High Symphony Orchestra will join Chaparral's eighth-grade Sinfonia Orchestra for an evening of music. The DBHS group will be.

Friday's concert will feature all three orchestras from Chaparral: the beginning Prelude Orchestra, the sixth-, seventh-, and eight-grade Philharmonia Orchestra, and another performance from the eighth-grade Sinfonia Orchestra. 

The Chaparral Philharmonia and Sinfonia orchestras were recently honored by being selected to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in May. Chaparral was the only middle school orchestra selected for the concert and only four orchestras were selected to perform for the May event.

Both concerts will begin at 7 p.m. at Chaparral's .