ALFONSO L. FUENTES COLÓN: Rapsodia Urbana (2021)

Posted on October 28, 2021

The inspiration behind Alfonso’s piece Rapsodia Urbana, which PYP will perform on November 13, 2021, was one of the many social events the composer experienced during María; a category 5 hurricane that in 2017 struck Puerto Rico, his home country. When Maestro David Hatter asked for a work as part of the Youth Orchestra Commissioning Initiative, the composer was thinking in a... Read More ›

NICOLE BUETTI: Restless Winds (2020)

Posted on October 28, 2021

Nicole Buetti felt that PYP’s Youth Orchestra Commissioning Initiative came into her life at the perfect time. Nicole was excited to get this opportunity to create a work that not only reflected what all of PYP’s young wind musicians were probably feeling but what the composer was going through as well. As a wind player, she was starting to feel restless... Read More ›

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Posted on October 20, 2021

The ravishingly-beautiful Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, for double-string orchestra, was first performed at the famed Three Choirs Festival in 1910. This work is Vaughan Williams’ first major piece for a large ensemble and it created a huge sensation in Europe—and did much to put British music back on the map at the start of the 20th century. Although not the... Read More ›

Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Posted on October 20, 2021

Igor Stravinsky wrote his Symphonies of Wind Instruments in 1920 in memory of the great French composer Claude Debussy, who had died in 1918. It was originally scored for 24 players, which included unusual instruments such as the Alto Flute and the Alto Clarinet in F (basset horn). In 1947, Stravinsky revised the work for 23 players, utilizing instruments common... Read More ›