Youth Music Monterey

Youth Music Monterey es una organización sin fines de lucro cuya misión es inspirar la excelencia en los estudiantes individuales y enriquecer nuestra comunidad al brindar a los jóvenes oportunidades para participar y comprender mejor la música y su interpretación. Establecido en 1988, nuestros programas ofrecen dos niveles de experiencia en orquesta, intermedio (Junior Youth) y avanzado (Honors), lo que permite a los estudiantes la oportunidad de estudiar y tocar repertorio sinfónico estándar a nivel preuniversitario.

The concert at Sunset Center in Carmel, California features the Junior Youth and Honors Orchestras. The JYO program will include “Down A Country Lane” by Aaron Copland and other works TBD. Because we have acquired another youth orchestra program and are in the process of merging, we’re still working through auditions and seating. Once that is complete, additional repertoire choices will be made for this group.

The Honors Orchestra, our most advanced orchestra, will open the concert with Lightspeed, by Kevin Day. A leading voice of today’s younger composers, Kevin Day’s music has been described as propulsive and colorful, with syncopated rhythms and instrumental virtuosity, ranging from “powerful introspection to joyful exuberance.” His compositional style has been characterized as intersecting “the worlds of jazz, minimalism, Latin music, fusion, and contemporary classical idioms.” Lightspeed is a fanfare for orchestra and employs mixed meters and jazzy and syncopated motives which lead to an exciting conclusion.

Additional repertoire may include Variations on a Shaker Theme or the Outdoor Overture by Aaron Copland. More information will be available in August.