Members of the Michigan Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Flute Choir and Sinfonia will join together for one last concert of the season on Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Kellogg Park.

About 40 students will be performing, according to Jane Libbing, Michigan Philharmonic Youth manager.

"It's a little different than our usual performance," Libbing said. "This is an extension of our season, our regular season ended with our May concert. Our students are allowed to invite friends to come in play, so it's something totally different than our regular season. They can share the fun with friends that are aware that we're here, but haven't been involved with us. And we get the extra support of more musicians this way to, which is very nice."

Libbing said this concert program features more lighthearted music than the group usually performs. On the program is the Best of the Beatles, songs from West Side Story, a Looney Toons cartoon medley, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Fairly Oddparents theme and the Pink Panther theme.

This is the third year the Michigan Philharmonic has held this special season extension concert.

"It's a chance for students to bring in other musicians who might be interested in our orchestra, but would like to just try it out," Libbing said. "It's a way to share it with their friends. Because it's a downtown venue in the park, families can bring the younger kids and if they get restless, they can run around, which is hard to do if you're in an auditorium setting. It's more relaxed, casual and a way to have fun with the music."

For Kelly Kaiser, a home schooled Canton resident who just graduated, this might be her last concert performance.

Kaiser, 18, will attend Eastern Michigan University in the fall to study violin - the main instrument she plays in the orchestra. Kaiser is the last remaining original Youth Orchestra member, having been a member when it first formed eight years ago.

"It's a much more open atmosphere than I've experienced in other groups," Kaiser said. "Nan Washburn is the conductor of the Youth Orchestra and the Flute Choir and she's wonderful - it's nice for the kids to have a chance to work with her because she's the music director and conductor for the actual professional orchestra too. We get to play out at a lot of different places. There's a lot of performances outside just the concerts. So there's a lot of experience that people get that they wouldn't get other places, which has been really nice."

Kaiser said that they've only had four weeks to put Tuesday's concert together.

"It's a much tighter schedule because we only have four rehearsals to get the concert together instead of a semester," she said. "So we have to plow through the music a lot more. It's kind of exciting because you have to pay attention, you can't just zone. The level of anticipation is a lot higher, I think."

 Leah Manning, 16, played the violin in the Youth Orchestra when she was in 6th and 7th grade. For the last two years, she has been playing the flute with them.

Manning, who attends the Plymouth Christian Academy, is excited about Tuesday's concert.

"I really like it, it's more modern stuff that everybody can come to recognize, versus the symphony and classical orchestra music," Manning said about the program. "It's a blast for all of us to play something like that."

Manning said her favorite song in the program is the West Side Story arrangement.

"I'm playing a different kind of flute than I normally play," she said. "All of the different aspects of the West Side Story musical is just so different in all these different ways. It's really cool."

 The concert on Tuesday is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.michiganphil.org.