DAVID HATTNER’S JANUARY PLAYLIST

Posted on January 4, 2019

PYP Musical Director David Hattner shares what’s currently on his playlist. Revamp your own playlist with selections from our PYP Playlist on David’s Twitter every #MusicMonday.

Read his past playlists here on the PYP blog.

PYP is beginning rehearsals for our March program. We have a wonderfully interesting program to present, with music by Brahms, Bloch, Avshalomov and Bernstein. This program will challenge and... Read More ›

Hear PYP Perform William Grant Still’s ‘The Far West’ from ‘The American Scene’

Posted on December 7, 2018

11.10.2018 - PYP and Musical Director David Hattner perform William Grant Still’s The Far West from The American Scene in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

Click here to read our in-depth program notes about this piece.

DAVID HATTNER’S DECEMBER PLAYLIST

Posted on December 1, 2018

PYP Musical Director David Hattner shares what’s currently on his playlist. Revamp your own playlist with selections from our PYP Playlist on David’s Twitter every #MusicMonday.

Read his past playlists here on the PYP blog.

I thought I would start with a clip from a German film about Johann Sebastian Bach. This scene represents his first meeting with Frederick the Great. Frederick wanted to... Read More ›

DAVID HATTNER’S NOVEMBER PLAYLIST

Posted on November 5, 2018

PYP Musical Director David Hattner shares what’s currently on his playlist. Revamp your own playlist with selections from our PYP Playlist on David’s Twitter every #MusicMonday.

We are busy preparing our music for the Concert at Christmas already. Here is a preview of the very famous music we will be playing!

Johann Strauss Jr. wrote many famous pieces. One of his most beloved is... Read More ›

PROGRAM NOTES: ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK’s Symphony No. 6

Posted on November 1, 2018

By Carolyn Talarr

The Sixth symphony by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, while timelessly powerful and poignant, illustrates the extreme effects that nineteenth- and twentieth-century European nationalist politics had on the arts.  Although commissioned by the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, the symphony had to premiere in Prague in 1881 because of Viennese musicians’ protests against non-Germanic music.  The Vienna Philharmonic wouldn’t perform it until... Read More ›

PROGRAM NOTES: TCHAIKOVSKY’s Violin Concerto, Mvt. I

Posted on October 29, 2018

By Aaron Greene, winner of PYP’s 2018-19 Soloist Competition

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto was not always one of the most recognizable pieces in classical music. In 1878, Hungarian violinist Leopold Auer was supposed to premiere the concerto, but declined at first, saying it was not well-suited to the instrument. Instead, Adolf Brodsky, who was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, gave the... Read More ›