PYP TAKES ‘THE FAR WEST’ BY WILLIAM GRANT STILL ON TOUR TO REDMOND & CORVALLIS
Posted on September 25, 2018
FREE Tour to Redmond | Saturday, October 27, 2018 | Ridgeview High School
Tour to Corvallis | Sunday, October 28, 2018 | The LaSells Stewart Center
REDMOND, OR – Hearing is believing! Audiences in Redmond, OR and Corvallis, OR will get the chance to hear Portland Youth Philharmonic when the orchestra visits on a tour to kick off their historic 95th season. PYP will present a free concert at Redmond’s Ridgeview High School at 7:00 PM on Saturday, October 27, 2018. The next day, on Sunday, October 28th, the orchestra will perform in Oregon State University’s Austin Auditorium at The LaSells Stewart Center at 3:00 PM. Tickets to the Corvallis performance are $5 for all ages.
Portland’s locally-grown and internationally renowned youth orchestra will present distinguished composer William Grant Still’s The Far West from his larger suite The American Scene. Written in 1957, by “the Dean of African-American composers,” The Far West evokes the age-old cultures and natural beauty of America’s West Coast. Still, who was of Spanish, Native American, Irish, Scottish, and African-American ancestry, envisioned a proudly multicultural America, as harmonious in race and ethnic relations as his music.
Soon to be the first U.S. orchestra for young musicians to reach its 100th anniversary, PYP commemorates 95 years of fearless artistry by presenting a movement from Still’s rarely-performed work The American Scene, as well as Dvořák’s expansive Symphony No. 6. The concerts will also include a performance of the first movement of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto by 17-year-old violinist Aaron Greene, winner of PYP’s 2018-19 Soloist Competition.
The Redmond performance is free and all are welcome to attend. Full details here on the PYP website. Tickets to the Corvallis performance are just $5 and may be purchased online here or at the door.