The C.L. Hoover Opera House was the setting for the first ever performance of the Flint Hills Community Orchestra Thursday evening.

Orchestra director David Bernard-Stevens said the concert went successfully. “We played about as well as we rehearsed. and there’s always a little bit of pre-concert nerves, but things went very successfully. Attendance was calculated at 175 people.

Among those in attendance, John Triplett, called it a great concert. “David’s talked about this for years, that he has a lot of people, and how talented the students are.”

Mona Kessinger called the concert terrific. She liked the fact the Orchestra practiced only two months and could prepare that type of program, which she described as “amazing.”

Bernard-Stevens said the Orchestra, consisting of 28 members performing on instruments from violin and cello to viola and base. “We played a couple Scottish folk tunes, a Star Trek tune which I really enjoy.” The famous Civil War tune ‘Johnny Comes Marching Home’ was also performed, amont other songs.