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Congratulations to Ahmed Mian, winner of the 2012 WVYS Concerto Competition.
He played C. M. Weber's Concertino for Clarinet.
The next rehearsal is January 30, 2012
6:30pm at Horace Mann Middle School
Youth Strings will rehearse at West Virginia State University
with the
River City Youth Ballet, 6:30pm
Youth Strings: Important Ballet information
Cadets and Youth Orchestra: Spring music has been posted for download
here
There's also an mp3 file of the new piece, Vandalia and a YouTube
link to Tales from the Vienna Woods
Chamber rehearsals at 5:30
Chamber concerts approaching March 4 and 11th.
MAJOR CHANGE: SPRING CONCERT DATE CHANGE. NEW SPRING CONCERT DATE WILL BE MAY 13th at 3:00 pm.
Please call me immediately if you have conflicts. I understand this may be a problem for some.
<-Tour participants: Look at the new Tour 2012 link
Congratulations to All-State musicians
Reminder: your String Card that gets you into WVSO
concerts
now also gets you into Chamber Music Society performances!
WVYS members (and alumnus) performed at GoodNight
View
WOWK-TV's video coverage
Congratulations for an excellent Winter Concert
or the full set of images here.
The Youth Orchestra went ape during rehearsal Halloween evening.
See more photos here.
We had a great tour meeting Monday night, with our representative from Encore Tours giving a presentation, along with remarks and Q and A with Tom Beal and Bob Turizziani.
We also had the raffle drawing for the Trip for Two to Paris and the Staycation Basket.
Congratulations to
John Stone/Rhoda Gilbert - winners of the Paris Trip
Jessica Pendola - winner of the Staycation Basket
Winning Ticket sold by Juliana Serafin - Isaac Liu's mother
Highest Student Ticket sales - Laura Wright/Gerry Wright selling 64 tickets!
Second Highest Student Ticket sales - Olivia & Parker Boughton/April
Robertson selling 29 tickets!
Thanks to all who helped make this raffle a success. Stay tuned for total
amount raised!
2011-12 Concert Schedule
WVYS WINTER CONCERT
Sunday, December 4, 2011 – 3:00 pm $10 adults, children free
Scottish Rite Temple
WVYS CHAMBER CONCERT
Sunday, March 11, 2012 – 3:00 pm $5 adults, $2 children
Kanawha United Presbyterian Church
WVYS SPRING CONCERT
Sunday, May 6th, 2012 – 3:00 pm $10 adults, children free
Scottish Rite Temple
WVYS SYMPHONY SUNDAY CONCERT
Sunday, June 3, 2012
University of Charleston
Photos from the 2011 Spring Concert
View the complete set of Spring Concert photos
Cadet Strings rehearse on the stage
2010 Winter Concert
View more Winter Concert photos
The West Virginia Youth Symphony was featured on WOWK-TV (13)
You can
view the story online:
West Virginia Youth Symphony Grows Musicians
Mona Seghatoleslami also mentioned us on the WV Pubcast blog, Classically
Speaking
A few thousand words (not really!)
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