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Spring Concert - Young People's Symphony Orchestra

Berkeley's Young People's Symphony Orchestra (YPSO) Spring Concert will

feature two YPSO Concerto Competition winners, music director/conductor

David Ramadanoff, and 100 young orchestra musicians in a program of

Berlioz's Overture to Le Corsaire, Reinecke's Ballade for Flute and

Orchestra, Rachel Adams, flute, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, 1st

Movement, Ellie Kanayama, violin, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10.

Celebrating

his 25th season as Music Director/Conductor, David Ramadanoff conducts

100 YPSO musicians who range in age from 12 to 21 and hail from 32 Bay

Area cities in seven counties.

Founded in Berkeley in 1936, YPSO

is the oldest youth orchestra in California and the second oldest in the

nation.
Violinist and conductor Jessica Marcelli founded YSPO at the

suggestion of Clarabelle Bell, an amateur harpist and Berkeley resident,

who got the idea after hearing a youth orchestra on a trip to Portland,

Oregon.

Program
Berlioz - Overture to Le Corsaire
Reinecke - Ballad for Flute and Orchestra, Rachel Adams, flute
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, 1st Movement, Ellie Kanayama,  violin
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10
in E minor


Please

Note:  The orchestra's annual Silent Auction Benefit will be held on

May 3, 6:30pm-8:00pm, and at the concert's intermission.


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