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The mission of the Alaska Youth Orchestras is to build musicianship, inspire our youth to love music, offer enriching opportunities for music performance, and create a musical legacy that will sustain arts throughout the lives of our members and our communities.

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Alaska Youth OrchestrasP.O. Box 240541 • Anchorage, Alaska 99524

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S T A F FArtistic Director – Linn Weeda

Executive Director – Darla BrooksAnchorage Youth Philharmonic Conductor – Tevya Robbins

Chamber Music Director – Laura Koenig

B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T SAnchorage School District

ASD Music TeachersBruce Wood, Music Coordinator

University of Alaska Anchorage, Music DepartmentEast High School

P H O T O SPhotography generously provided by Northern Lens Photography, Marcus Biastock

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Tanguy Libbrecht, Board President Patrick Rumley, Vice President

Kim Morris, TreasurerRobyn Pieper, Secretary

Paulina ChangStanley Brown

Daniel WhitfieldBob Amos, Director Emeritus

Alaska Youth Orchestras is supported, in part, by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support from the Municipality of Anchorage, the Rasmuson Foundation, and the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation.


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I am so very happy to share with you some of the world’s most beautiful music, played by enthusiastic young players. Tonight’s concert consists of brilliant soloists who are winners of

our annual concerto competition, as well as one of my favorite symphonies – Dvorak’s Symphony No 8.

I had performed this work for the first time when I was in college, and pretty well drove all of my fellow students mad as I played the excerpts every chance I got. I purchased the full score during my first travels in Europe, and I studied and dreamed about conducting it while speeding along on trains through Switzerland and Austria. I am so pleased to introduce this tuneful, happy work to orchestra members and you!

In addition, the Philharmonic will perform two great works from the repertoire: a movement the Mozart’s first ‘mature’ symphony (he was 17 at the time!), and Offenbach’s glorious Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld. Please refrain from dancing the can-can during the ending!

Two brilliant soloists also will perform tonight: Naomi Endres performing the marimba and tenor (and principal viola) Luke Honeck. Both students are bright stars that we are overjoyed to showcase!

This season has been one of great performances given here at home. We are planning and looking forward to our next season, and hope that you will again join us.

Linn Weeda, Music Director AYO

LINN WEEDAARTISTIC DIRECTOR



Welcome to our final concert of the 2014/2015 season! I do sincerely hope that you’ve all enjoyed this AYO season. It was wonderful to have the opportunity to get to know so many of you. I’d like to take a moment to say thank you again to all the volunteers! YOU are the real heroes of AYO! We’re a great organization because of our volunteers!

I’d also like to note that we’ll be saying ‘good-bye’ to 29 graduating seniors after this concert. Many of them have been with AYO throughout their high school years. I hope that we have

fulfilled the AYO mission and that they will always keep music and the arts in their daily lives. I also hope that all AYO musicians will create a ‘Personal Life Mission’ and find a way to bring music and art into the lives of those that will follow them.

I look forward to another great season with AYO!

Sincerely,Darla Brooks, Executive Director, AYO

The mission of the Alaska Youth Orchestras (AYO) is to build musicianship, inspire our youth to love music, offer enriching opportunities for music performance, and create a musical legacy that will sustain arts throughout the lives of our members and our communities.

DARLA BROOKSEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR



On behalf of the board and staff of the Alaska Youth Orchestras

Welcome to our Spring Concert, bringing to a close another wondrous season for the Alaska Youth Orchestras. AYO Music Director Linn Weeda and Anchorage Youth Philharmonic Conductor Tevya Robbins have put together some inspiring musical selections that showcase

the amazing talent of our young musicians, who have worked hard to make the magic you will hear this evening.

Thank you to parents and family members for supporting your musicians in their pursuit of beautiful music. Many of you will see your seniors off to school and to new adventures and we hope that AYO has been an inspiring and enriching journey for your sons and daughters. We wish them well and send them off with a hearty BRAVO and wishes for a bright future musical, or otherwise. Those of you who have up and coming musicians that will continue to enrich the AYO through their individual and collective talents, thank you!

We look forward to seeing all of you next season. If you are the parent of a musician, we thank you for all of your efforts and patience. If you are a patron, we thank you for your support of our 50 year young organization. Please remember that every dollar that you spend goes directly to ensuring that the Alaska Youth Orchestras continues to make beautiful music, nurturing our amazingly talented young artists. In the meantime, happy summer to all!

Tanguy Libbrecht, Board President, AYO

TANGUY LIBBRECHTBOARD PRESIDENT’S LETTER


LINN WEEDAANCHORAGE YOUTH SYMPHONY CONDUCTOR

A lifelong Alaskan, Linn Weeda received his baccalaureate from UAF, where his trumpet teacher was James Kowalsky and his conducting teacher was Gordon Wright. He received his Master’s from Boston University, where he studied trumpet with Armando Ghitalla and Roger Voisin, won the concerto competition, and was student of the year.

Further studies were with Julio Tancredi in trumpet, Larry Scripp in solfege, Charles Bruck and Gunther Schuller in conducting. He has also studied with

the principal trumpeters of the Atlanta, London, Los Angeles, and Rotterdam orchestras.

As a freelancer in Boston, he was a member of a number of orchestras and was heard nationally on National Public Radio performing on baroque trumpet with the Smithsonian Chamber Players. He has given recitals and performed concertos throughout the country and in Asia.

He has appeared with most of the orchestras and festivals in Alaska as soloist – most recently appearing with the Anchorage Symphony, performing a world premier of a trumpet concerto written for him by Boston composer Louis Stewart.

“He has appeared with most of the orchestras and festivals in Alaska as soloist – most recently appearing with the Anchorage Symphony, performing a world premier of a trumpet concerto written for him by Boston composer Louis Stewart.”

As a conductor, Weeda led orchestras in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Germany. He has been Music Director of the Fairbanks Youth Symphony and founded the Tupelo (Mississippi) Community Orchestra. He was Staff Conductor of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony. He regularly conducts the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra in the annual Halloween concert and in Young People’s Concerts. He has led the AYS on tours within Alaska and on international tours to Australia and, in the summer of 2010, to China.

Currently Weeda is Music Director of the Anchorage Youth Symphony, Assistant Music Director and Principal Trumpet of the Anchorage Symphony, Principal Trumpet of the Anchorage Opera. In addition to his many credits as a performer, Weeda has taught at King’s Lake Music Camp, University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Fine Arts Camp, and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. In addition he teaches classes in ear training, solfege, and trumpet at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

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TEVYA ROBBINS ANCHORAGE YOUTH PHILHARMONIC

Mr. Tevya Robbins received two Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Music Education and Political Science from Humboldt State University. He has earned a M.M. in Instrumental Conducting from Portland State University. He has had opportunities to conduct the Beaverton

Community Band and the Portland State University Wind Ensemble. Mr. Robbins is currently the Band Director at East Anchorage High School. He has a love of music and a love of being involved in the education of young people.

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Naomi EndresConcerto Solo #1 for Marimba and String Orchestra by Ney Rosauro

Naomi Endres is a three-year member of the Anchorage Youth Symphony, serving two years as principal percussionist as well as a Performing Member Director of the AYO board. She studies percussion with John Damberg and has attended the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp as a

Jonathan L. Silets Memorial Scholar (2012) and David Scott Rhind Endowed Scholar (2013). In 2014, she performed the first movement of George Druschetzky’s Concerto for Six Timpani with the Anchorage Civic Orchestra and was a guest soloist with the UAA percussion ensemble. Naomi received the First Chair Awards for percussion in the 2013 and 2014 Alaska All-State Music Festival and first runner-up for the Percussion Command Award at the 2014 ASAA Solo & Ensemble Music Festival. Naomi is a junior at West Anchorage High School where she has been involved in the jazz and band programs and played in several school-based productions. She is a member of

Model United Nations and the president of the Chess Club. Naomi is an active sabre fencer, winning the 2015 State National Qualifiers and enjoys spending time with her Pembroke Welsh corgis, Hunter and Neville.

Luke HoneckConcerto Solo #2 for II Mio Tesoro from the opera Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart

Mr. Honeck’s many musical awards, accomplishments and honors include Guest Performer with the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra. Alaska All-State 2012 and 2013. Luke has performed with the Anchorage Opera Pit Orchestra. If he is not playing his viola Luke is singing. He sang with the Anchorage Opera Chorus. Mr. Honeck’s love of all music knows no bounds. His future plans include studying Vocal Performance with a focus on opera at a small music school of conservatory and then pursue a career in opera.

“Membership in AYO has exposed me to such wonderful symphonic works. I have developed such appreciation for so many composers-some of whom I never would have known about! Through being a principal player, I have developed admirable and leadership skills and an appreciation and understanding of large group activities and settings. I am truly thankful for all I have learned here.” Luke Honeck, 2014.

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VIOLIN 1Emily Jensen, principal

Emma ClinkMariya GillilandSiobhan Whittle

Emily DeckerVasily SoloviewFaith MarroquinStephen Kagerer

William SonYohei Fujimoto

VIOLIN 2Jacob Morris, principal

Catherine McKoyNaomi RatcliffeHanna HellenClaire BredarJacob Kaas

Serena InoueAnton RisseJerry Yang

Sabine Kretschek

VIOLALuke Honeck, principal

Sarah BartholomewPiper Kurtz

Claudia WongMadison Smith

John LeeKatrina Brown

John Paul LaChapelleCade MorganSylviaTaylor

CELLOErin Kim, principal

Sarah SoudersCaleb Kaas

Edouard SeryozhenkovFoster Birnbaum

Sterling GingerichCiara WhittakerPaul Lindemuth

BASS

Harrison Greenough, principalEmily Arsenault

Myah PrecieWillow GroskreutzSpencer DeBerard

Gannon Lawley

FLUTECatherine Goolsby, co-principalIsabelle Libbrecht, co-principal

Joyce Kim

OBOERemy Libbrecht*, principal

Ansley MorrisJames Homsley

Emily Reast

CLARINETAllison Stapleford, principal

Joseph CagleyKrista Stapleford

Arthur Welsh

BASSOONNatalie Talcott, principal

Jenna MorrisMerigan Horn

HORNEvan Hagen, principal

Hannah BrownAlexander HammMaggie Spotanski

Emma Thomas

TRUMPETBryce Davis, principal

Gus FloerchingerJayden Frazer

Iman Allen

TROMBONEBenton Campbell, principal

TUBADrew Cochran, principal

PERCUSSIONNaomi Endres , principal

Alexander WongEli Neslund

Noah ChestermanNiklas Pieper

HARPKailey Gates

GUESTSDr. Christopher Sweeney, Trombone

Seth Bodine, TromboneGarrett Rossing, Banjo

* on leave of absence

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VIOLIN 1Hahni Johnson, principal

Maria KlingAbigail Luiken

Lou Mei GutschKelli Thomas

VIOLIN 2Jinah Yoon, principal

Sarah ChenNoah AmasonPeter StiassnyCaleb Swan

VIOLA

Cory McDonald, principalAaron JenkinsSarah Wolski

Charles PanigeoAlice PrenticeIsabelle Pope

CELLOCamille Heubnere, principal

Alexander DaskalosRachel Morgan

BASSKatelyn Marshall, principal

Sarah Earnhart

FLUTEElizabeth Van Alstine, principal

Yu-Jin ChoiChelsea Hutchings

OBOEAntonia Barela, principal

Jared LowtherMichael Fischer

CLARINETAngela Frazer, principal

Gabriel DartDylan Cerveny

TRUMPETChandra Boyle, principalTuan Graziano, principal

TROMBONEThomas Tyler, principal

TIMPANI & PERCUSSION

Noah Greene, principal

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S E N I O R P R O F I L E

REMY LIBBRECHT (OBOE) Remy is a four-year member and current principal Oboist for the Anchorage Youth Symphony. He also enjoys playing English horn, Saxophone, clarinet and guitar. His musical awards, accomplishments and honors include being the manager, past student conductor and Lead Alto Sax in the West High Jazz Band. Remy was selected for All-State in 2011,’12, ‘13 and ‘14, and selected as Principal in 2012, ‘13, and ‘14. In 2012, he was also selected for the All-Northwest Band. Remy was the winner of the AYO’s 2014 Concerto competition. In 2014/15 he also won the Concerto completion for the Anchorage Civic Orchestra. He enjoys playing in the pit at West Anchorage High school for various plays. During summers, Remy has taken master classes with Elaine Douvas of The Juilliard School, Robert Walters of Oberlin, Thomas Stacy of Manhattan School of Music, Nancy-Ambrose King of the University of Michigan, Daniel Stolper of Interlochen and Linda Strommen of Indiana University. Mr. Libbrecht’s other awards, accomplishments and honors also include a black belt in Tang Soo Do, has earned three varsity letters on West High School’s state Champion Tennis team, and represented Alaska at the Intel International Science Fair in 2012. Remy’s hobbies and other interest include reading, board games, computers and hanging out with friends.

Remy’s ultimate goal is to be a performing musician in a major orchestra and to teach at a college or university. In the fall, Remy will be attending either Oberlin Conservatory of Music outside Cleveland, studying with Cleveland Orchestra English Horn player/oboist Robert Walters or Manhattan School of Music, under the tutelage of New York Philharmonic Principal Oboist Liang Wang.


Remy would like to thank his teacher Hal Nonneman, Double Reed Professor at UAA and his reed-making instructor and mentor Leigh-Ann Woodard, Adjunct Oboe Professor at UAA. He is also very appreciative of the Baroque music advice and expertise of Dr. Laura Koenig.

“My time in AYS allowed me the opportunity to perform at a high level in large venues. I was also was able to travel with AYS to Europe, where I had the opportunity to play in some storied locations. “ Remy Libbrecht, 2015

EMMA LEE RAY CLINK (VIOLIN) Ms. Clink has played Violin with AYS for 4 years. Her musical awards, accomplishments and honors include Command Performance Artist State Solo and Ensemble Contest. Multiple I ratings at District and State contests. Her other awards, accomplishments and honors also include graduating with honors, honor roll throughout High

School, state Declamation champion for 3 years. Emma’s hobbies and other interest include Musical Theatre pit orchestras, trumpeting in Jazz and concert bands at West, supervisor at Papa Murphy's Pizza.

Ms. Clink will be attending attending MacAlester College in MN on a full-ride scholarship.

Emma would like to thank her mother, father, Robert Arms and Rebecca Haag, and private violin instructor, Ting-Ting Zhu.

“Membership in AYS has allowed me to enhance my experience in Ensemble preparation and performance, while allowing me ongoing opportunities to work with peers and professionals throughout the Anchorage area.” Emma Lee Ray Clink, 2015

HARRISON GREENOUGH (BASSIST) Mr. Greenough has been the principal bassist of the DHS Advanced Orchestra for the past four years. He has been been a member of Anchorage Youth Symphony for four years, serving as principal bassist for the past three. He has also participated in Alaska’s All-State Orchestra for four years and has been selected as first chair for the past three. In addition, he was a member of the All Northwest Orchestra in 2013 and 2015.

In addition to playing in the Anchorage Youth Symphony, Harrison is a former member of the Anchorage Civic Orchestra and University of Alaska’s Sinfonia. Also, he performs as a substitute bassist with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra. During the summer, he has attended music programs including the Sitka Fine Arts Camp and the Fairbanks Jazz Festival.

Harrison plans to attain a musical performance degree at the Boston Conservatory.



STEPHEN KAGERER (VIOLIN) Mr. Kagerer’s musical awards, accomplishments and honors include participating in Alaska’s All-State twice where he garnered superior ratings in solo and ensemble. Stephen was also a foreign exchange student in Finland for a year.

His many hobbies and other interest include downhill and nordic skiing, gaming, computers, electronics, tinkering with mechanics, welding, metal working, sculpture and radio control.His future plans are to attend college or trade school.

BENTON CAMPBELL(TROMBONE) Mr. Campbell played with AYS for four years. His musical awards, accomplishments and honors include, Command Performance brass quintet at state solo and

ensemble, 2013 and 2014. All-State Band, 2014. Benton has lettered four years with the South High Band. He was also a National Merit Finalist, U.S. Presidential Scholarship candidate, Most Inspirational cross country runner, along with lettering in running and skiing.

Benton’s hobbies include refereeing hockey, ultimate frisbee, fantasy football and cross country skiing.

Mr. Campbell plans to attend the University of Minnesota and pursue a degree in chemical engineering and work in the energy industry.

Benton would like to thank the following people for helping him musically. Tony Reed, Dr. Carolyn Valiquette, Dr. Chris Sweeney.



These generous individuals have chosen to recognize the hard work and immense energy displayed by these part icular musicians.

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Alex Wong - Silas & Sofia Wong

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Emily Reast - Timothy & Joanna Reast

T R O M B O N E

Benton Campbell - Campbell Family

C L A R I N E T

Joseph Cagley - Scott & Vicki Cagley

V I O L A

John Paul LaChapelle - Ravnit & Francis LaChapelle

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A laska Youth Orchestras ProgramLinn Weeda, Music Director

May 2, 2015 • 7 PM at the Discovery Stage

Anchorage Youth Phi lharmonicTevya Robbins, Conductor

Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart ....................................................... Symphony No. 39 k. 183/173dB 1. Alegro con brio

Jacques Offenbach……………………… ................................... Overture to Orphée aux enfers

Anchorage Youth SymphonyLinn Weeda, Conductor

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ...................................................................Capriccio espagnol, op. 34 1. Alborada 2. Variazioni 3. Alborada 4. Scena e canto gitano 5. Fandango asturano

Ney Rossauro……………………… ................................Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra

3. Danza 4. Despedida Naomi Endres, Marimba

I N T E R M I S S I O N

W.A. Mozart……………………… ......................... Il Mio Tesoro from the Opera Don Giovanni

Antonin Dvorák…………………………………………….… Symphony No. 8, op. 88 in G major 1. Allegro con brio 2. Adagio 3. Allegretto grazioso 4. Allegro ma non troppo

Ms. Endres and Mr. Honeck are winners of the AYO Concerto Competition.


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Program Notes by Linn Weeda

Anchorage Youth Philharmonic

Conducted by Tevya Robbins

Symphony No. 25 in G minor K. 183

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozar tBorn January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Died December 5, 1791 in Vienna.Composed October 1773. First Performance in Salzburg, October, 1773.

Mozart needs little introduction to audiences: the facts of his astonishing talent, his unprecedented early career as a child prodigy and his untimely death are all well known.

Written in his native Salzburg, critics have noted that the seventeen year-old composer entered into musical maturity with this composition. It was at the end of a busy year: he had part of the summer in Vienna with his father, where he composed a number of unsubstantial pieces. As Philip Huscher has written, “Mozart made the first decisive step from wunderkind to great composer, from entertainer to artist.”

It is one of only two of his forty-one symphonies that is in minor, and was written in a key that Mozart seemed to have reserved for his most moving music. It served as the opening music to the 1984 movie Amadeus with good reason: the first movement heard tonight is full of driving rhythmic figures and jagged melodies.

Overture to Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld)

Jacques OffenbachBorn June 20, 1819 in Cologne, Germany. Died October 5, 1880 in Paris.Premier, October 21, 1858.

Jacques Offenbach was perhaps the most influential and important composer of comic opera in the middle part of the 1800’s. His influence extended to composers of all nationalities who wrote lighter music theater pieces, including Strauss, Gilbert and Sullivan, and von Suppé.

The first and arguably most popular of his major operas, Orpheus in the Underworld is typical of his satiric approach. Its subject had been set before, but as a tragedy. Ever the satirist, Offenbach composed a spoof of this timeless story.

The tragedy from Greek mythology tells the story of Orpheus, a renowned musician who is so upset from the death of his beloved wife Eurydice that he attempts to rescue her from the Underworld by performing for Hades, ruler of the Underworld. Offenbach turns the plot around: Orpheus and Eurydice are husband and wife, but live separately and lovelessly. When Eurydice dies, Orpheus reluctantly travels to Hades but fails to charm the ruler to let his wife go – much to the delight of both Husband and Wife. Critics were outraged, while the



audiences loved it. It became in short order an international hit.

The overture – composed for foreign performances, not the Paris premier – is made of tunes from the opera. The most famous of these tunes is the “infernal dance” at the end of the overture. Dancers in the music halls later performed the famous can-can to this tune. Later, the composer Saint-Saëns used the Can-can in his Carnival of the Animals. It became a satire of a satire: the piece is slowed down to depict a tortoise.

Anchorage Youth Symphony

Conducted by Linn Weeda

Capriccio Espagnol op. 34

Nicolai Rimsky-KorsakovBorn in 1844 in Tikhvin (near Novgorod), Russia. Died in 1908 in Liubensk (near St. Petersburg).Composed in 1887. First performance in St. Petersburg, 1887.

Originally trained as a Naval Officer, Rimsky-Korsakov became an important teacher of music, leading the newly formed St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1871 until his death. He was part of a group of Russian composers (the Kushka-sometimes translated as ‘the mighty handful’ or the ‘mighty five’ and included Cui, Borodin, Balakirev, and Mussorgsky) whose model for new music was the exoticism of the Russian landscape, the poetry and language of the Russia, and the myths and stories of the its people.



Like many nationalistic composers, Rimsky-Korsakov was also fascinated with exotic lands far away from his own. Capriccio Espagnol (Spanish Caprice) is a symphonic suite on themes that the composer borrowed from a collection of authentic Spanish songs. A tour de force of brilliant orchestration, the work displays a multicolored panoply of instrumental timbres.

The work opens with Alborada, which was originally music performed at dawn, especially on a festive occasion. The Variazioni is a set of Variations on a languid theme that is first played by the horn section. A return to the Alborada - this time in a slightly different orchestration - leads directly into the Scena e canto gitano (Gypsy scene and song) which starts with a series of cadenzas for the brass, violin, flute, clarinet, and finally harp, before the statement of the wild gypsy song. This movement proceeds directly to the trombones announcing the Fandango asturiano (Fandango from Asturias). This is a familiar dance in triple meter found throughout Spain. Again without break, the Alborada reappears as a coda, ending the suite in a brilliant blaze of orchestral color.

Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra

Ney RosauroBorn October 24, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro. Composed June-July, 1986. Premiered by the Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra, November 1986, composer as soloist.

Ney Rosauro is recognized as one of the most original and dynamic symphonic percussionists and composers today. He started studying percussion in Rio de Janerio, and continued with his percussion studies at the Universidade de Brasilia, Hochschule fur Musik Wurzburg in Germany, and culminating in a doctorate at the University of Miami. He has also studied composition and conducting extensively.

As an educator, he has taught at the Escola de Musica de Brasilia, and the Federal University of Santa Maria. He was also director of percussion studies at the University of Miami.

As a composer he has published more than 50 pieces for percussion as well as several method books. Over 1,200 different orchestras worldwide have performed his Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra heard tonight,

Ney Rosauro has appeared in concert as soloist in more than 35 different countries, and his nine solo CDs have received critical approval.

The Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra is dedicated to Rosauro’s son, Marcelo, who was born around the time of the composition. Although no folkloric or popular Brazilian themes are used in the work, one easily hears a Brazilian musical atmosphere permeating the work.



Aria: Il mio tesoro intanto from Don Giovanni K. 527

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozar tBorn January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Died December 5, 1791 in Vienna.Opera completed on October 28, 1787. First performance October 29, 1787 in Prague.

One of the most often performed operas, Don Giovanni is a unique opera: listed by the composer in his catalog of works as an opera buffa (comic opera), it is also full of drama and darkness.

Il mio tesoro intanto occurs at end of the second scene of the second act. Don Ottavio has just confronted the Don Giovanni’s servant Leporello. He is about to avenge the murder of his fiancé’s father by Don Giovanni, proclaiming in this virtuosic aria:

Il mio tesoro intanto Meantime go and andate a consolar, console my dearest one,E del bel ciglio il pianto and seek to dry the tears cercate di asciugar. from her lovely eyes.Ditele che i suoi torti Tell her that I have gone a vendicar io vado; to avenge her wrongs,Che sol di stragi e morti and will return only as the messenger nunzio vogl'io tornar. of punishment and death.

Antonín DvorákBorn in Nelahozeves (near Prague), 1841. Died in Prague, 1904.Composed in 1889. Premier in 1890 in Prague, with the composer conducting.

The music of Antonín Dvorák is rooted in the song and language of his homeland of Czechoslovakia. He did not think that it was unsuitable to bring Bohemian folk-dance rhythms even into the ‘abstract’ medium of chamber music. However, he seems to have avoided overt references to folk music in his symphonies. Rather, it is his rhythmic energy and sheer melodic inventiveness that attracts in these works.

There has been confusion over the numbering of the symphonies of Dvorák. Only five of his nine symphonies were published in his lifetime, but four more are dated from his earlier years. This confusion was partially caused by Dvorák when he suppressed some of his early symphonies. In some early programs and recordings, the symphony heard tonight was numbered as “Symphony No. 4”.

This symphony is sometimes called “Dvorák’s Pastoral”, in reference to Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony of the same title. It is so named because of its distinctly “outdoors” feeling. It has been called by others as his “English” Symphony, for although Dvorák wrote this work in his homeland of Czechoslovakia, it was offered to Cambridge University some three years later as an obligatory ‘exercise’ for accepting an honorary doctorate.


This happy and relaxed symphony hints of birdsong and the peaceful countryside. The opening of the first movement is deceptive. A sustained tune in G minor sung by the ‘cello section gives the opening a sorrowful feel that conceals the movement’s essentially sunny nature. But the flute soon enters, chirping in the happier key of G major. Listen especially for the effortless spinning of singable tunes throughout the movement. The orchestration of the movement is striking. Aside from the use of the ‘cellos and flute already mentioned, the first sorrowful tune is transformed dramatically later in the movement by the trumpets.

The second movement alternates between a pensive theme in C minor, first played by the strings at the beginning, and a second section of triumph that features the strings in brilliant C major scale passages against the woodwinds and brass.

The third movement is a beautiful, soulful waltz-like tune in G minor that reminds one of Czech folk song. The middle section in G major sets a lovely melody against a rhythmically active accompaniment. After a literal repeat of the first section, Dvorák closes the movement with a coda in a new meter.

The final movement opens with a brilliant trumpet fanfare, followed by a theme first played by the ‘cellos that is then repeated throughout the movement. After a calming section, Dvorák charges to the finish, ending a remarkably tuneful symphony.


Upcoming Events for Alaska Youth Orchestras

A Y O A U D I T I O N S M A Y 4 T H , 2 0 1 5Auditions for the 2015/2016 season, East High School. Register on our website.

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History of the AYO

In the early 1960’s many individuals recognized the need for an orchestra for the youth of Anchorage. Forerunners of what became known as the Anchorage Youth Symphony were organized and conducted by such prominent local musicians and educators as Kurt Pasch, Jeanne (Ray) Bruhn, Charles Gorsuch, and Marlow Thomas. Young musicians of that period were trained in the Anchorage schools and gave many concerts throughout the city.

“The AYO encourages and supports the music program within the schools in the belief that great music played well instills in young people discipline and the joy of great musical ideas.”

In 1965 the Anchorage School District hired Frank Pinkerton as its director of music. In that position he formally organized the Anchorage Youth Symphony. As its music director, Mr. Pinkerton oversaw the expansion of opportunities to perform throughout the state, and the youth symphony’s reputation grew steadily.

Dewey Ehling replaced Frank Pinkerton as music director of both the Anchorage School District and the youth symphony. The Anchorage Youth Symphony Association became a 501(c)(3) non-profit in 1981. Until his retirement in 1986, he expanded the touring schedule, traveling and performing nationally and internationally.

In 1986 and 1987 Linn Weeda led the orchestra. In 1987, John Duff was appointed Music Director. During his tenure the orchestra toured Scotland. In 1991 Russell Guyver succeeded Duff, instituting a series of retreats to encourage the social interaction of members, as well as concerts in the Matanuska-Susitna valley.

Linn Weeda was again engaged as the Music Director in 1992, and continues in that position. In recent years the orchestra’s program has expanded to include coaching by local professional musicians, many who were in the youth symphony as young players. Other

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activities under Weeda have included an annual recording project, a chamber music series, the formation of the Anchorage Youth Philharmonic, an alumni association, scholarships, and extensive touring.

In 2012, the non-profit Anchorage Youth Symphony Association became Alaska Youth Orchestras.

Members of the orchestras are chosen each year during auditions in the spring, and are drawn from every public and private school in the area as well as from the Matanuska-Susitna valley. In previous years, students have flown in from Kodiak, Homer, and Kenai to rehearse and perform with the orchestras.

Without great music, education is not complete. Music education has long been an educational priority of the Anchorage School District with classes in orchestra, band, and chorus offered at the elementary, junior, and senior high levels. The AYO encourages and supports the music program within the schools in the belief that great music played well instills in young people discipline and the joy of great musical ideas.


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