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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