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SEASON CALENDAR

 

Tacoma Youth Symphony

TYS performances begin at 3:00 p.m. in the Rialto Theater (unless otherwise noted) 

 

Sunday, October 26, 2008
3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Costume Concerts
to benefit the TYSA Scholarship Fund
Joint Performance with the Tacoma Young Artists Orchestra
Come dressed as your favorite movie character!

Star Wars....................................................................................John Williams

Pirates of the Caribbean....................................................................................Craig Eastman

Music from Fantasia....................................................................................TBA

Lion King Selections....................................................................................Elton John

Route 66 from Cars....................................................................................Bobby Troup

 

Sunday, November 23, 2008
Sponsored in part by ArtsFund. 
 
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Russian Easter Overture.........................................................................................................Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola.........................................................Wolfgang Amadaeus Mozart

Svend Ronning, violinist & John Scanlon, violist

Symphony No 4............................................Peter I. Tchaikovsky

 

Saturday, January 24, 2009
Collaborative performance at the University of Puget Sound

Peter and the Wolf....................................................................................Sergei Prokofiev

 

Sunday, March 8, 2009
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Harmonices Mundi "The Meditations of Johannes Kepler".............................................................................Gregory Youtz
Premiere of Commissioned work by Dr. Youtz

Lark Ascending............................................................................................................Ralph Vaughn Williams
Caroline Cassio, student violinist

Student Concerto..............................................................................................TBA
Student soloist

Symphony No 5................................................Dmitri Shostakovich

 

Sunday, May 17, 2009
 Sponsored by BOEING and the Tacoma Arts Commission      

Season Finale
 

Petrushka (1947 Version).................................................................................................Igor Stravinsky

Concerto for Clarinet............................................................................Aaron Copland
Jeff Brooks, clarinetist

Enigma Variations..............................................................Edward Elgar
 

 

 

 Tacoma Young Artists Orchestra

Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Rialto Theater (unless otherwise noted) 


Saturday, December 6, 2008

Night on Bald Mountain.................................................................Modest Mussorgsky (Orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov)

Concerto....................................................................................................................................................TBA

Kikimora, Op 63...............................................................................................................Anatol Liadov

Orchestra Suite No 4 in G Major, Op 61, "Mozartiana"...........................Peter I. Tchaikovsky

 


  

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Concert Waltz No. 1 in D Major, Op. 47..............................................................................Alexander Glazanov

Concerto..................................................................................................................................TBA

Suite from "The Gadfly"................................................................Dmitri Shostakovich

     

 

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Polovetsian Dances from “Prince Igor”.................................................................................Alexander Borodin

Concerto........................................................................................................................To Be Arranged

In the Steppes of Central Asia......................................................................Alexander Borodin

October, Symphonic Poem in c minor, Op. 131.........................Dmitri Shostakovich

 

 

Young Orchestra Series


  Sunday, January 11, 2009; 3:00 p.m.
Tacoma Junior Youth Symphony & TYSA Percussion Ensemble

Saturday, January 17, 2009; 3:00 p.m.
Tacoma String Symphony & Tacoma String Philharmonia

Saturday, January 24, 2009; 7:30 p.m.
Tacoma Debut Winds & Tacoma Debut Orchestra

Saturday, May 2, 2009; 3:00 p.m.
Tacoma String Symphony & Tacoma String Philharmonia

Saturday, May 2, 2009; 7:30 p.m.
Tacoma Debut Orchestra & South Sound Strings Harp Ensemble

 Sunday, May 3, 2009; 3:00 p.m.
Tacoma Junior Youth Symphony &
TYSA Brass Choir & TYSA Double Reed Ensemble

 

 

Special Concert Series
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December 13, 2008
Chamber Ensemble Recital
6:00 p.m.
Immanuel Presbyterian Church

Members from the six different orchestras perform small ensemble works.
ADMISSION IS FREE

Tacoma Youth Double Reed Ensemble
Directed by Elizabeth Paterson, the Double Reed Ensemble
is open to all junior high and high school
oboe and bassoon students.

Tacoma Youth Brass Ensemble
Directed by Liz Ward, for high school and college brass players
interested in the practice and performance of traditional
and contemporary brass ensemble literature.

Tacoma Youth Percussion Ensemble
Directed by Carol Colwell, for high school and college percussionists
interested in the practice and performance of traditional
and contemporary percussion ensemble literature.

South Sound Strings Harp Ensemble
Directed by Patricia Wooster, open to harp students of all ages and
abilities who wish to perform solo, small ensemble
and large ensemble pieces.

 

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NOVEMBER IS ARTISTS MONTH IN TACOMA

Join us as well as other Tacoma arts organizations in celebrating

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