Sunday, March 10, 2019 | 3:00pm
Benaroya Hall
Sunday, March 10, 2019 | 3:00pm
Benaroya Hall
Guest Conductor: Pablo Rus Broseta
With: The Seattle Symphony Horns
Maurice Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnole
Robert Schumann: Concert Piece for Four Horns
and Orchestra, Op. 86
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major
Ravel, Schumann, and Mahler highlight SYSO’s winter concert.
Maurice Ravel’s Rhapsodie Espagnole stands unique amongst Ravel’s works in that it is his only piece originally conceived as an orchestral concert piece. After setting out to create an orchestral piece, the composer crafted together four Spanish sketches, including a habanera he had written for two pianos more than a decade earlier, and the product is one of the most colorful and dynamic examples of Spanish orchestral music ever written.
SYSO welcomes the French horns of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra to perform Robert Schumann’s Concert Piece for Four Horns and Orchestra. Schumann’s great love for the horn led him to write numerous works for solo horn and eventually construct this piece for four horns with its festive melodies and jubilant climax.
Also on the program is Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 1. Although the symphony has a troubled history, with a widely negative response at the premiere, it has gone on to become one of Mahler’s most widely-performed works as it pushes the orchestra to the limit from its large and soaring melodies to a somber funeral march that utilizes a dark and distorted version of “Frère Jacques”.
Sunday, March 24, 2019 | 3:00pm
Meany Hall, University of Washington
As a special 75th anniversary event, Prelude, Symphonette, Debut, and Junior orchestras team up with The Skyros Quartet, a staple of the Seattle classical music scene, and Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra for an afternoon that will spectacularly blend symphonic music and jazz.
Sunday, May 5, 2019 | 3:00pm
Benaroya Hall
Guest Conductor: Alastair Willis
With: Mae Lin, Violinist, The Seattle Choral Company, and featuring the SYSO 75th Anniversary Alumni Side-by-Side Performance conducted by Anthony Elliott
Paul Chihara: Music from “The Tempest”
Ernest Chauson: Poème, Op. 25
Leonard Bernstein: “Make our Garden Grow” from Candide
Aaron Copland: “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
The Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra performs the music of Chihara, Chausson, Bernstein, Copland, and Rachmaninoff with the Seattle Choral Company and guest soloist Mae Lin in their final concert of the 75th anniversary season.
SYSO welcomes Seattle Symphony violinist Mae Lin to perform Poeme by Ernest Chausson. Lin previously served as Associate Concertmaster of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and Artist in Residence at the University of Evansville after receiving a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music in Performance from The Juilliard School.
Next, the Seattle Choral Company led by SYSO alumnus Freddie Coleman joins the orchestra to perform Leonard Bernstein’s “Make our Garden Grow” from Candide and Aaron Copland’s “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land. The Seattle Choral Company has, over the course of 30 years, become one of the region’s most accomplished and respected choral organizations
Sunday, May 12, 2019 | 3:00pm
Benaroya Hall
With: The Gothard Sisters
SYSO’s younger musicians perform with The Gothard Sisters for an afternoon that will spectacularly blend symphonic music with traditional Celtic tunes.
Friday, June 14, 2019 | 7:30pm
McCaw Hall
Saturday, June 15, 2019 | 2:00pm & 7:00pm
McCaw Hall
Single $16-$54
Season $60-$120
Founded in 1942, Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra is the largest youth orchestra training program in the United States.