Tim Berens, MM. student in orchestral conducting, was commissioned by the National Arts Center Orchestra (Pinchas Zukerman, Music Director), to orchestrate “Tom Sawyer” by the band Rush.   The arrangement was performed May 5 at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award Ceremony honoring Rush with a lifetime achievement award.   A video of the performance is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2MuXdNJlv0  (The arrangement starts 2:00 into the video.)    The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recently recorded Tim’s arrangement entitled “A Winter Miracle.”  It will be released on CD this month.  The CPO also commissioned Tim to write an arrangement for orchestra and chorus to be performed during the opening ceremony of this summer’s World Choir Games in Cincinnati.