Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra Holiday Program Book

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ABOUT THE HARRISBURG SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA The Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra, one of America’s oldest, opens its new season showcasing the finest musicians from public, private, and homeschool institutions in the Central Pennsylvania area.

Membership is maintained through annual auditions, constituting the 80 to 90 high school age orchestra participants. The Youth Symphony loses approximately 25-30 percent of its musicians each year through graduation and these positions are filled at the beginning of each season. Approximately one-third of the Youth Symphony graduates continue as music majors at the college or conservatory level; others continue to play in college and community orchestras.

Presently, Harrisburg Youth Symphony graduates are performing with the Harrisburg Symphony, York Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Opera Orchestra, and regional orchestras throughout the United States.

Following today’s performance, the Youth Orchestra has scheduled a season of free public concerts.

Continue the holiday spirit and help support the HSYO in the first-ever Play-a-Thon, a new twist on their annual Strawberry Square Concert. Join us in supporting our HSYO on Saturday, December 18, at noon in the Atrium. On Tuesday, February 22, at 7:00 PM, the HSYO and the Harrisburg Junior Youth String Orchestra (HJYSO) will perform in a joint family concert at the Forum, as the kick-off for the HSO Education Weekend celebration. The Youth Orchestra Spring Mother’s Day Concert will be held at the Forum, Sunday, May 8th, at 3:00 PM, and a special “Pops” concert at Strawberry Square on Saturday, May 21st at noon brings the season to a close.

Additional information about the Harrisburg Symphony Youth and the Harrisburg Junior Youth String Orchestra, a training orchestra for string students in grades 6 through 9, is available by visiting our website HarrisburgSymphony.org or by calling the Symphony Office 717-545-5527.

HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 3 pm - Forum HSYO joined by local High School Choirs

PLAY-A-THON Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010 12 noon - Strawberry Square HSYO plus special performances by HSYO ensembles

FAMILY CONCERT HSO EDUCATION WEEK Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 7:00 pm - Forum HSYO and HJYSO

SPRING MOTHER’S DAY CONCERT Sunday, May 8, 2011 3 pm - Forum HSYO

SPRING CONCERT Saturday, May 21, 2011 12 noon - Strawberry Square HSYO

Tara Simoncic

HARRISBURG SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS MUSIC DIRECTOR

Tara Simoncic, Assistant Conductor to Maestro Malina and the new Youth Symphony Music Director, joined the HSO in July 2010 from an appointment as Music Director of the Norwalk Youth Symphony in Norwalk, Connecticut. While with the NYS, she founded and conducted the Chamber Orchestra there.

During her time as Music Director of the Norwalk Youth Symphony, she built the program from four orchestras to six, adding a very successful mid-level orchestral winds training ensemble as well as a top level chamber orchestra.

In addition to her NYS position, she was also the Music Director and Conductor of the Histoire Chamber Orchestra, Conductor of the Flexible Orchestra (in NYC), Cover Conductor for the Manhattan School of Music (NYC), and Pre-Concert Lecturer and Assistant Conductor for the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra (Greenwich, CT).

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Originally from Stockton, California, Ms. Simoncic grew up in a musical family. Her father a composer and her mother a flautist, Tara was encouraged to study several instruments, but chose to focus on the trumpet at the age of six. Tara was bitten by the conducting bug while pursuing her Bachelor of Music degree in trumpet performance at the New England Conservatory of Music. There, she founded the Stravinsky Septet, an ensemble which toured New England with a staged production of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat and other works with similar instrumentation that were commissioned by the ensemble.

Deciding to further her studies in conducting, she received her Masters of Music degree in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University.

Her conducting training extended to Europe, where she has studied at the Canford Summer School of Music (England) and with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Czech Republic), the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra (Czech Republic), the Adygeya Republic National Symphony Orchestra and the Astrakhan Symphony Orchestra (Russian Republic). She studied with Zdenec Macal, David Gilbert, Iloh Yang, Victor Yampolsky, George Manahan, George Hurst and Kirk Trevor.

HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.

TARA SIMONCIC, Conducting ODIN RATHNAM, Violin Overture to Die Fledermaus

Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899)

Selections from the Nutcracker

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

March Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Trepak Waltz of the Flowers

“Winter” from The Four Seasons

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)

Odin Rathnam, soloist ............. Intermission .............

The Christmas Song Arr. by Audrey Snyder/John Higgins with the combined Choirs

Sleigh Ride

Three Noels with the combined Choirs

Polovtsian Dances from “Prince Igor” no. 8 no. 17

Mel Tormé/Bob Wells (1925-1999/1922-1998)

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) Clare Grundman (1913-1996) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

Odin Rathnam

HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERTMASTER

Since his critically acclaimed Lincoln Center debut in 1993, Odin Rathnam has established himself as one of the most passionate and versatile artists of his generation. He has received unanimous praise from critics and audiences for his “captivating temperament,” “brilliant technique” and “recalling the legendary violinists of the past”. A veteran performer at many major European and American festivals including the Algarve International Music Festival in Portugal, Denmark’s Tivoli and Vendsyssel Festivals, Deia International Festival in Mallorca, Aspen and Caramoor, he has also appeared in recital on the Market Square Concerts series, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall, where Rathnam first appeared at the age of 15. As a soloist, he has performed with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the New Amsterdam Symphony, the Columbian National Symphony, the Camden and Hayes Orchestras in England, the York Symphony, the Hershey Symphony, the Lancaster Symphony, the Central Pennsylvania Symphony and the Harrisburg Symphony, enjoying collaborations with conductors including Stuart Malina, Richard Westerfield, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Anne Harrigan and many others.

As a chamber musician, Mr. Rathnam has performed frequently in Harrisburg, Baltimore and New York with Concertante, the internationally acclaimed chamber group he founded in 1995. His 2000 recording of Strauss’s “Metamorphosen” received the highest praise from Calum MacDonald, BBC Music Magazine who wrote “[Concertante’s] performance [of the Strauss Metamorphosen] is white-hot, so intensely felt and so superbly realized technically as to be almost beyond praise; they create their own benchmark in this version.”

Odin Rathnam has collaborated as a violinist and violist with leading artists of his generation including: violinists Nikolaj Znaider, Gil Shaham, Adele Anthony and Kurt Nikkanen; pianists Rohan De Silva, Albert Tiu, Robert Koenig and Anton Nel; and cellists Matt Haimowitz, Bion Tsang, Laszlo Fenyo and Daniel Gaisford, The Fry Street, Casals and Ying Quartets and the Rafael Trio.

Mr. Rathnam is extremely committed to the development of young musicians and his numerous students have been accepted at major conservatories throughout the United States and abroad, several going on to win prizes in national and international competitions. He currently serves as a performing faculty member at the Nordic Music Academy in Denmark.

Mr. Rathnam has performed extensively on American and European radio and television, including the major classical stations of New York, Washington and Harrisburg as well as coast to coast broadcasts on National Public Radio’s Performance Today and CBS’s 60 Minutes.

Born in 1965 to Danish and Indian parents, Odin Rathnam was raised on the Upper-West Side of Manhattan. He was accepted at the Juilliard School’s pre-college division at the age of 11, continuing his formal education at Mannes College of Music with Sally Thomas and at the Juilliard School, where he was a scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay. He studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and Josef Gingold. He also studied with the Danish violinist Anker Buch.

Mr. Rathnam has recorded for the Helicon, Kleos and ABM labels. He performs on a rare Italian violin crafted by Bartolomeo Calvarola in 1755.

Program Notes by Ian Wallace

Die Fledermaus Overture

Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899) was an Austrian composer famous for his waltzes, operettas, and ballets. In 1874, Strauss’ most famous operetta, Die Fledermaus (The Bat), was premiered at the Theater An der Wien in Vienna. This operetta tells the tale of a large practical joke, in which the character Falke seeks revenge on his friend, Gabriel von Eisenstein. After a costume parade, Eisenstein had left Falke in the middle of town drunk and dressed as a bat, causing him to endure much ridicule. Just before Eisenstein is supposed to serve a short jail sentence for a petty crime, Falke invites him to a ball he himself has orchestrated. The ball serves as a giant masquerade of sorts. Eisenstein’s wife, his chambermaid, as well as the local prison governor appear to him disguised as others. After the ball, Eisenstein leaves for prison and in time the other characters make their way there for various reasons as well. In the end, everything is amicably sorted out and “blamed on the champagne” that was drunk at the ball.

The overture to Die Fledermaus offers a medley of various themes heard throughout the operetta. Much of the thematic material is taken from Act I. A prominent oboe solo quotes the aria “So I must remain alone” sung by Rosalinde, Eisenstein’s wife. The upbeat theme that follows is taken from the aria “My big beautiful birdhouse,” which is how the prison governor describes his prison. Also, as one would expect from the “Waltz King,” as Strauss was called, a prominent waltz theme permeates the overture as well.

Polovtsian Dances (No. 8 and 17)

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) was both a Russian Romantic composer as well as a fairly successful chemist. The Polovtsian Dances are taken from Borodin’s opera Prince Igor, which is considered by many to be his most significant work. Although Borodin died before being able to complete Prince Igor, it was completed for him by Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. However, the Polovtsian Dances themselves are completely Borodin’s own work. The first dance, No. 8, opens with a playful melody in the woodwinds. This same melodic theme continues to reappear throughout the dance in various forms. The dance then concludes with a dramatic, percussive ending. The second dance, No. 17, opens with a lyrical, delicate melody heard in the woodwinds.

However, the opening pedal tone heard in the horns provides some tension and leaves the listener a bit uneasy until a point of repose is reached. The melody that follows, first heard in the oboes, is passed throughout the ensemble and reemerges later in the piece as well. The dance then goes on to offer the listener a variety of themes and textures. Several of these themes are upbeat and infuse a lot of percussion, while others revert back to the more lyrical melodies found near the beginning. The end of the piece is marked by an increase in tempo and rhythmic motion all leading up to a long, dramatic final chord.

The Nutcracker

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s (1840-1893) classic ballet was premiered in St. Petersburg in 1892. Since its premiere, The Nutcracker has become one of Tchaikovsky’s most well known and beloved works. The ballet is set on Christmas Eve and tells of the adventure of a young girl, Clara. Clara’s godfather brings her and her brother various toys, including a wonderfully carved nutcracker. At night, the Nutcracker comes alive and oversees a war between gingerbread soldiers and the Mouse King’s army. After Clara assists the Nutcracker in slaying the Mouse King, the Nutcracker turns into a handsome prince. In order to show his appreciation, the Nutcracker takes Clara to the Land of Sweets where they meet the Sugar Plum Fairy and are crowned the land’s rulers. The music is familiar to many who hear it, partly because it has been featured in many commercials and movies. However, the melodies are also recognizable due to the emphasis Tchaikovsky placed on their prominence, as was typical for composers of the Romantic Era. One should also note the distinct role orchestration plays in the coherence and beauty of the various dances. For example, the melody heard in the celeste in “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies” would lack the same airy, almost magical quality if performed on any other instrument. Also, the use of the harp throughout the ballet helps to add a mystical quality that would otherwise be absent. Through the use of melody, orchestration, and other techniques, Tchaikovsky brings the story of The Nutcracker to life.

Winter from The Four Seasons

Winter is taken from Antonio Vivaldi’s (1678-1741) most famous work, The Four Seasons, a series of violin concertos. The Four Seasons was published as part of a collection of twelve concerti in 1725. The music can accurately be described as program music, which seeks to induce thoughts outside of the strict musical realm. Vivaldi had based his music on four Italian sonnets, possibly written by the composer himself. The sonnet for Winter is as follows: Frozen and trembling amid the chilly snow Our breathing hampered by horrid winds As we run, we stamp our feet continuously, Our teeth chatter with the frightful cold.

We move to the fire and contented peace While the rain outside pours in sheets.

Now we walk on the ice, with slow steps Attentive how we walk, for fear of falling.

If we move quickly, we slip and fall to earth, Again walking heavily on the ice, Until the ice breaks and dissolves; We hear from the closed doors Boreas and all the winds at war, This is winter, but such as brings joy.

The pulsing opening of the first movement and its harmonies help to create a picture of a snowstorm. When the violin enters, it sounds almost as if it is struggling to produce any noise at all, as if its “breathing [has been] hampered.” The second movement introduces a slower, more lyrical melody that invokes the serenity one would find next to a fire. Finally, the third movement exposes the listener to the storm once more. After an energetic ending full of fast rhythmic motion, the listener is left with a sense of admiration for winter’s power, as well as its beauty.

HARRISBURG SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS VIOLIN I

Jimmy Nguyen, Concertmaster Ben Lengerich, Associate Concertmaster Jehan Momin Kenneth Huang Gabrielle Stetz Tammy Lin Richard Liang Carolina Casteneda Jennifer Smith Victoria Hogan Christina Dietz

VIOLIN II

Morgan Marshall, Principal Ngoc – Tram Bui, Assistant Principal Genevieve Schafer Tram-Anh Bui Sara Rothermel Andrea Lin Ben Yeh Maggie Reading Abbey McMillen Emily Yuda Jenna Emerick Austin Bashline Katie Koontz Daniil Stolyarov Ross Faux Alyssa Travitz

VIOLA

Karrisa Lin, Principal Mariana Gonzales, Assistant Principal Alexandra Muscalus Rachel Frank Madelyn Veith Veronica Adams Brendon Juengst Woodson Powell Dominic Santoleri

CELLO

Mitchell Veith, Principal Erin Maguire, Assistant Principal Irene Tsai Taylor Hallowell Suzanna Hinkle Anke Wang Rose Levenson Mikie Klucker Geneva Rowader Andrew Dower Rachel Brosius David Dietz Grant Kempski

BASS

John Shank, Principal Riley Zimmerman

FLUTE

Lauren Villone, Principal Rachel Faleshock Allison Rakocy

PICCOLO

Eden Klepper

OBOE

Isabel Foreman – Ortiz, Rotating

Principal Jennifer Yun, Rotating Principal Andy Bayer, Oboe/English Horn Joseph Harkins

CLARINET

HORN

Kelsey Ross, Principal Amanda Hardin

TRUMPET

Drew Martin, Principal Tylor Teel

TROMBONE

Rachel Bani, Principal Ian Mooney

TUBA

Clayton McKee

PERCUSSION

Michael Blasser Henry Eichman Matt Kreamer Alan Thompson

Harp

Elizabeth Bashore

PIANO

William Hume

Tara Simoncic, Music Director Conductor HSYO

Sam Krug, Rotating Principal Emma Raver, Rotating Principal Amanda Ryan Elaina McGann Andrew Herring

Keith Richardson, Manager

BASSOON

Kristofer Kimmel, Orchestral Coach, HJYSO

Chelsea Bensinger

Marie Weber, Conductor HJYSO

SCHOOLS REPRESENTED IN THE HSYO Bible Baptist Big Spring Bishop McDevitt Camp Hill Carlisle Cedar Cliff Central Dauphin Central Dauphin East

Covenant Christian Academy Cumberland Valley East Pennsboro Elizabethtown Halifax Harrisburg Academy Hershey Line Mountain

Lower Dauphin Middletown Millersburg Milton Hershey Northern York County Red Land Susquehanna Twp. West Perry

PRIVATE TEACHERS REPRESENTED IN THE HSYO Micah Albrycht Deb Anderson Tyler Austin Regina Barrett Joel Behrens Alice Bish Jennifer Blyth Duane Botterbusch Hope Bowling John Brye

Peter Brye Beverly Butts Michael Clayville Dan DeLong David Diehl John Eaken Jim Ebersole Linda Farrell Brent Fisher

Hershey High School In Voce :: Joseph Farrell, Director Sakina Abedi Lorraine Bass-Garcia Allison Bell Megan Bittinger Cassidy Blouch Erin Blumling Reily Brodeur Hanh Bui Hedy Cooper Kelly Davis Brittany Diffenbach Haley Dobson Keely Fickau Victoria Fink Ann Marie Gardner

Zoe Gomer Kathryn Grecia Alexis Grier Kayla Guilliams Abigail Hyatt Anne Jastrzebski Sydney Jean Sarah Joshway Kelly Kohlman Amanda Layser Danica Lehmann Zarah Light Hailey Lockner Elizabeth Mannion Maura McErlean

Gloria Grahe Mary-Ann Guerrisi Estelle Hartranft Eric Henry Ai-Lin Hsieh Carl Iba Rachel Kauffman Nora Knott Barbara Lambdin

Robert Lau Barbara Lewis Judy Liao Louis Lynch Jill Marchione Joseph McAnulty Debby Michael Jan Nemshick Amy O’Connor

Barbara Owen Fred Quigley Cheryl Shipman Peter Sirotin Clarence Stine Tom Strohman April Strong Vicki Villone Richard Winey

HIGH SCHOOL WOMENS CHOIRS Makenzie Neal Kyra O’Connell Brittany Pearson Meaghan Raab Eufemia Rivera Rachel Sheffey Meera Sinha Micaela Sisco Francesca Travagli Marianne Voyles Jennifer Wiley Kayla Williams Courtney Wood Terri Zerbe Anna Zipprick

Hershey High School In Voce is a nonauditioned ensemble that meets during the school day. It is one of three choirs at Hershey High School. Repertoire ranges from the Renaissance to popular.

In Voce has performed at the Capitol Rotunda, with the Harrisburg Symphony, Harrisburg Youth Symphony and have been past participants at the Roxbury Choir Invitational earning gold and silver ratings. Today’s performance marks the fifth collaboration with HYSO and Hershey In Voce since the vocal group’s inception in 2000.

Central Dauphin High School CD Chanson :: Charles Masters, Director Kimberly Alexander Emily Alicea Kiara Allen Abby Argue Samantha Bedford Samantha Bednar Ashley Benkovic Alexis Black Kendra Browning Shelly Burke Hannah Clisham Stephanie Cosgrove Chelsea Covage Jessica Dame Laura Daube Victoria Defazio Taylor Deitrick Amelia Dickson Hannah Donnelly Beth Evans Annelise Flamm Emily Hahn Emily Hendershot Rachel Hoffman Kali Holland Hannah Hrobuchak Allison Kelly

Anna Kerstetter Regina Kimmel Janelle Koontz Lauren Koppenhaver Caroline Kunisky Emily Miller Elena Mountsier Brianna O’Connell Alexandria Owens Tasha Peter Rachel Potteiger Margaret Reading Hannah Reitenbach Erica Riddle Sarah Roesch Alicia Rogers Jamie Ross Natalie Savage Kaitlyn Simpson Madison Stadler Clara Tracy Angela Trovato Erica Walsh Samantha Wary Alexis Winters Alexandra Yingst

CD Chanson of Central Dauphin High School is one of five curricular choirs in the school’s vocal music program. Repertoire performed by CD Chanson ranges from Renaissance through Modern/21st century. Over the past 20 years, Central Dauphin Choirs have gained acknowledgment by performing at eight Pennsylvania Music Educator’s Conventions, the 1995 Music Educator’s National Conference All-Eastern Convention in Rochester, NY, the 1998 American Choral Director’s Association Eastern Convention in Providence, RI, and the 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008, and 2009 Roxbury Concert, Show, and Jazz Choir Invitational, where CD Chanson received the highest ratings of Gold. CD Chanson has taken part in numerous master classes with guest directors, composers, and other artists, including a 2009 session at the Juilliard School in NYC and a 2010 session with Dr. James Jordan of Westminster Choir College. In addition to offcampus performance tours and master classes, the women of CD Chanson offer three seasonal home concerts, a District-wide Honors Choir performance, and several joint performances with both of the Central Dauphin High School Instrumental and String programs.

Students from the Central Dauphin High School choral program have consistently represented at State, Divisional, and National Honor Choirs sponsored by Music Educators National Conference and American Choral Directors Association; this coming Winter, eight students will represent CDHS at the 2011 ACDA National Conference in Chicago. For further information regarding Chanson and the Central Dauphin High School choral program.

Central Dauphin East High School Select Women’s Ensemble :: George Diehl, Director Sara Clugston Julia Fogg Samantha Wellman Cortney Fulmore Hannah Ulmen Rachel Smolizer Guiliana Carricato Victoria Heaney Alexandra Aviles Whitney Chapman Caitlin Pysher Sara Mehretab Alexandra Blizzard Shyese Brown Demesha Davis Jade McFarland Ligeia Evans Ashlee Bruner Arianna Krosnar

Savannah Moyer Chanel Peguero Asia Amway Alexandra Wallace Kaitlyn Steckbeck Amy Nguyen Jenna Neil Colleen Reed Jamie Duarte Madison Goas Taysia Jarmuzek Jackilyn Lingle Lori Hissick Capri Salas Desiree Thompson Catherine Wilson Jessica File Kathryn Pastula

Select Women’s Ensemble is an auditioned curricular ensemble of 35-40 members from grades 10-12. As members of a select ensemble, students gain entry to the group through the spring placement audition. Students are chosen based upon their musical audition (tone quality, intonation, musicianship, ability to hold parts independently, preparation, tonal memory) and their attitude (ability to work with others, reliability, enthusiasm, dependability).

The Select Women’s Ensemble provides singers with the opportunity to learn and perform challenging traditional and contemporary choral works. A member of the Ensemble is expected to give the extra time necessary to help the group become an outstanding musical ensemble. As an auditioned group, the Chorale is a traveling choir, and its members will learn repertoire to perform at festivals and competitions in addition to the major choir events (A Night on Broadway, Winter Concert, Spring Concert).

Saturday, December 18, 2010 at Noon

TARA SIMONCIC, Conducting Overture to Die Fledermaus

Selections from The Nutcracker March Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Trepak Waltz of the Flowers

Sleigh Ride

Polovtsian Dances from “Prince Igor” no. 8 no. 17

The Christmas Song Arr. by Audrey Snyder/John Higgins

Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) Mel Tormé/Bob Wells (1925-1999/1922-1998)

The HSYO Play-a-Thon Ensembles Duet for Violin and Cello 1st mvt: Allegro Comodo

Ludwig van Beethoven

performed by Andrea Lin, violin and Mikie Klucker, cello

Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah)

George Frideric Handel

performed by HSYO flutes: Lauren Villone, Rachel Faleshock, Allison Rakocy, Eden Klepper

Carol of the Bells

M. Leontovich

performed by William Hume, piano (keyboard)

Yagibushi

Steve Primo

performed by HSYO percussionists: Michael Blasser, Henry Eichman, Matt Kreamer, Alan Thompson

HSYO gives our students the opportunity to set and achieve high personal standards, to discover the rewards of working together and to share the excitement of performing great music before appreciative audiences. Our student musicians have fun working together to achieve the orchestra’s and their own personal goals. You can help us make possible the programs and enrichments our students enjoy.

Our major fundraising event for the 2010-2011 season is the Winter Giving Concert & Play-a-Thon. We are asking neighbors, family, teachers, and local businesses to sponsor our Play-a-Thon performance. This Giving Concert Play-a-thon will be a special day to celebrate and share the “gift of music” with the public. To help maintain the program that we enjoy, HSYO has set a goal to raise $20,000! We need your pledges to make this happen!

As a non-profit organization HSYO and our young musicians rely on the generosity of friends and family because tuition covers only a fraction of the total cost per student.

Every contribution counts no matter how large or small. Please join us to support the HSYO and help build a future for this program that will help our students to grow and develop musicially through new experiences and opportunities.

(Please cut here and return bottom portion with payment to the address listed) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name of Musician (fill in before mailing):_____________________________________________________________ Donation Given By:______________________________________________________________________________ Email Address:__________________________________________________________________________________ Donation Amount: $______________________________________________________________________________ Donations may be made with a credit card through the HSO website, visit: www.HarrisburgSymphony.org Make checks payable to: Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra Please mail your tax deductible donation by December 31, 2010 to: Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra 800 Corporate Circle, Suite 101 Harrisburg, PA 17110

May your Holiday Season be filled with the sounds of beautiful music.

Congratulations to the Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra and especially the brass section.

Best Wishes for a Spectacular Holiday Bob Priar

Jack Gaughen REALTOR Camp Hill Office bob.priar@jgr.com www.JGR.com/Bob.Priar

Merry Christmas!

The Mooneys

To John and the orchestra, Love to hear those basses!

Have a wonderful concert, and best wishes for the Holidays.

Mom, Dad, Jason, and Kailene

Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra Young, aspiring musicians receive practical training and develop invaluable life skills as members of this disciplined, audition-only ensemble.

Master Classes

Auditioned participants refine their performance skills during interactive sessions with Symphony musicians and featured guest artists.

The Sound Foundation Program

The HSO offers students accompanied by their parents or teachers significantly reduced ticket prices to the full Masterworks Series, making music affordable to all of our community’s young people.

Young Person’s Concerts

Maestro Malina and the HSO offer a series of schoolday concerts specially designed for young people. The YPC’s are made possible through a generous grant from the Hathaway Family Foundation.

Musicians in the Schools

Music clinics, artists in residence, and student mentoring give area students the opportunity to learn from our Symphony musicians during one-time or recurring visits.

Family Concerts

The children of our region and their families enjoy concerts that vary from all-orchestral programs to collaborative productions which feature dance, the spoken word, puppetry, mime, singing, and other concert enhancements.

Happy Holidays from the Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra Advisory Committee

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