Hello, Senior Symphony!
I hope you are having a nice weekend. Just a quick hello and reminder about what we’re doing on Monday. WE HAVE A LITTLE CONCERT! AND THEN WE HAVE A PIZZA EXTRAVAGANZA. : )
Please wear something that reflects the season….a little visual holiday cheer for our String Orchestra and Flute Chorale audience.
Also, many of us have been together for years, and in particular the entirety of 2023…rehearsals, concerts, travelling, and tour. What and amazing and unforgettable year; I am so grateful for you.
The entire orchestra, each and every one of you, is a remarkable and beautiful person. Believe it. Thank you for spending your valuable time here and for giving each other the best parts of you. Your talents, energy, spirit, good cheer, and music making. And thank you for helping each other, patiently learning how best to support and lift each other up to the next great parts of life. We are so proud of all of you!
See you Monday,
Carter
Music Director
Monday, December 18 (Final Rehearsal Before Break)
5:20 – Report to Youth Arts Hall
5:30 – Villa Lobos, Villa Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (1944)
6:40 – Review Holiday Songs
7:10 – Holiday Concert for String Orchestra (Central) and Flutes!
- A Christmas Song
- Sleigh Ride
- Christmas Festival
7:25 – PIZZA!
8:00 – Lulu’s Wish (Song Set)
8:30 – Buxtehude arr. Chavez, Chaconne in E Minor
8:45 – Rehearsal End
Sunday, January 7 1:30-3:30 Rehearsal and visit with MYSO Alumni!
Monday, January 8 Sectionals with professional coaches
MYSO Founders Concert
February 24, 2024, 1:00 pm | Bradley Symphony Center
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) /arr. Chavez, Chaconne in E Minor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875—1912), Ballade in A Minor, Op. 33 (1898)
Lulu’s Wish
MYSO and Senior Symphony will partner with Make-A-Wish Wisconsin to fulfill a wish of a young person they support. Lulu’s wish is to sing with a symphony orchestra and Senior Symphony is honored to help make Lulu’s wish come true.
Song Set:
Kurt Weill/Anderson, “September Song” from Knickerbocker Holiday
Scott Frankel, “Pink” from War Paint
Andrew Lloyd Webber, “As If We Never Said Goodbye” from Sunset Boulevard
John Kander, “Maybe This Time” from Cabaret
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887—1959), Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (1944)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesZ8d-7HBE or
https://youtu.be/u-qIspNyhsU?si=jAu3Va_YfJx7NMbX
Remaining Rehearsals:
- Monday, December 18
- Monday, December 25 – NO REHEARSAL – WINTER BREAK
- Monday, January 1 – NO REHEARSAL – WINTER BREAK
- Sunday, January 7, 1:30-3:30 pm
- Monday, January 8 – Sectionals with professional coaches
- Saturday, January 13 – Concerto Competition
- Sunday, January 14, 1:30-4:00 pm
- Monday, January 15 – NO REHEARSAL – MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY
- Monday, January 22
- Monday, January 29
- Monday, February 5
- Monday, February 12
- Monday, February 19
- Friday, February 23, 5:30-7:00 pm, Dress Rehearsal
- Saturday, February 24, Bradley Symphony Center
- 11:00 am-12:15 pm, Sound Check/Dress Rehearsal
- 1:00 pm, Founders Concert