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Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Announces PYO 2011/2012 Season Schedule
2011/2012 Season includes unique, challenging repertoire and three concerts in Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
Philadelphia, PA – October 27, 2011 (Download PDF). Maestro Louis Scaglione, the President and Music Director of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra organization, today announced the 2011/2012 Season for the organization’s flagship ensemble, the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO).
The new season will commence in November, offering six concerts to the region through June 2012 including three performances in Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. The gifted and talented young classical musicians in PYO will perform pieces including Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole, Debussy’s La Mer and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique.
“The works the young musicians in the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra will perform are very challenging staples in orchestral literature that will provide an authentic professional symphonic experience for the students and audiences, alike,” said Louis Scaglione of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra organization. “The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra is the only youth orchestra of its kind in the Tri-State region to offer such high-quality repertoire, as well as three concerts this upcoming season in Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.”
Philadelphia Youth Orchestra 2011/2012 Season:
Sunday, November 6, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
Temple Performing Arts Center, Philadelphia
In collaboration with the DC Youth Orchestra Program
Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 – “From the New World”
Saturday, December 10, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
Montgomery County Community College
G.F. Handel - Messiah
Sunday, February 19, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Verizon Hall, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 1
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Verizon Hall, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Ives – Symphony No. 2
Gershwin – American in Paris
L. Bernstein – Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
E. Bernstein – Suite from Magnificent Seven
Copland – Hoe Down from Rodeo
Saturday, May 5, 2012, 8:00 p.m.
Montgomery County Community College
J. Haydn – The Seasons
Sunday, June 10, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
72nd Annual Festival Concert, Verizon Hall, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Ravel – Rapsodie Espagnole
Debussy – La Mer
Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
Please note: schedule as of July 26, 2011; subject to change.
The 2011/2012 Season for the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra organization’s Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra (PYAO), Bravo Brass and Philadelphia Region Youth String Music (PRYSM), Musicopia String Orchestra and Tune Up Philly will be announced in the coming weeks.
About the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra: Founded in 1939, the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra organization is one of the nation’s oldest community music education and youth orchestra performance programs for gifted and talented students from the Tri-State region. Lead by Maestro Louis Scaglione, the organization’s flagship ensemble, Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO), provides the most talented students with advanced orchestral training and performance opportunities throughout the concert season. PYO’s companion ensembles include the Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra (PYAO), formed in 1996; Bravo Brass, added to the program in 2003; Philadelphia Region Youth String Music (PRYSM) created in 2007; and the Musicopia String Orchestra partnership, which began in 2008. Young musicians from ages six through 21 are selected by competition audition and have represented the United States on five continents. The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra organization offers classical musical performances to the Greater Philadelphia region each year and supports musical education to children from Philadelphia’s more vulnerable neighborhoods through its newest after-school program launched in 2010, Tune Up Philly.
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