Keeping Tempo April 2017

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Volume 8, Number 3, April 2017

Keeping Tempo

Inside this issue: Master Classes with Phila. Orchestra Musicians

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Chris Brubeck Brings His Eclectic Sound to YOBC

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Alumni Focus: Trish Hartman

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Executive Director’s Corner: Yesterday, Today, and the Future

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Student Spotlight: Clarence Kwong

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YOBC International Tour to Andalusia July 2018

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SIC Achieves Five-Year Milestone in BTSD

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YOBC Students in All-Star Orchestra Performance

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YOBC Graduate’s Composition Premieres At Kimmel Center

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New This Year: YOBC Summer Music Camps

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Important Dates: 

April 29 & May 6: New Member Auditions

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May 21: 25th Anniversary Gala Concert, Patriots Theater, Trenton War Memorial

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June 10: YOBC Concerto Competition

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June 20: 2017–18 Season Registration Deadline

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YOBC Summer Camps— BCCC Kids on Campus: June 19–23 (Orchestra); June 26–30 (Band); August 7–11 (Band)

25th Anniversary Gala Celebration May 21 On Friday, May 2, 1992, the YOBC Symphony Orchestra presented its firstever performance at BCCC’s Library Auditorium. Sixty young musicians performed under the baton of the founding conductor, Robert Loughran. This year, on May 21, YOBC celebrates its 25th anniversary, still under the direction of Mr. Loughran, with a Gala concert and reception at Patriots Theater in the Trenton War Memorial. And this concert will include all 269 members of YOBC’s eight different ensembles performing in the grand finale. YOBC’s Gala features Chris Brubeck and his group Triple Play. Brubeck will perform his Concerto for Bass Trombone with YOBC’s Fanfare Winds and revisit some of the mu-

sic of his famous father, jazz great Dave Brubeck, with YOBC’s Symphony Orchestra. Triple Play consists of Chris Brubeck (on bass, trombone, and piano) guitarist Joel Brown, and multi-instrumentalist Peter Madcat Ruth. Together they have honed a vast and vivid repertoire encompassing Delta blues, Tin Pan Alley standards, New Orleans grooves, jazz gems, and incisive originals. With all three contributing vocals, Triple Play delivers an epic sojourn through American music unlike any other band on the scene. The grand finale will showcase a new work— Loughran’s Lark— commissioned by YOBC and composed by Eric Sessler. Defining a “lark” as “engaging in harmless

fun or mischief,” Sessler created this piece to celebrate Mr. Loughran’s 25year “lark” at the helm of YOBC. It is orchestrated in a way that involves all levels and participants of YOBC in a gala work that is filled with melodic and rhythmic energy. The world premiere performance will be a collaboration of current and former students—a fitting celebration for an invaluable youth orchestra The concert musicians will enjoy a festive dinner prior to the concert. Tickets to the 25th Anniversary Gala concert are available on the YOBC website. VIP tickets are also available and include a champagne reception and meet and greet with Chris Brubeck and Triple Play.


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