ESYO Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Etienne Abelin closed out the 2021-2022 season with a premiere of Fabrizio Cassol's Concerto Grosso for Cello & DJ/Electronics at Tanglewood's Ozawa Hall.

This innovative piece puts a "new spin" on Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 4. and features Peabody Conservatory's Wendel Patrick and Juilliard cellist Sebastian Stoger. The work is a sonic interplay between the past and the present and a musical essay on memory. Quoted throughout the piece are samples, riffs, and harmonies of Brahms’ final symphony with new sounds and textures produced by the DJ and turntables. Innovative and uncommon additions to a classical orchestra like turntables represent the present-day reality, while the cellist represents the past and what Johanne Brahms has written.

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Ring in the holiday season with family and friends at the Empire State Youth Orchestra. Catch the spirit of the season and take a joyful sleigh ride with sparkling holiday favorites, Christmas carols, and inspired Symphonic classics filled with good cheer. ESYO’s former Music Director Helen Cha-Pyo returns to conduct Mozart’s Sleigh Ride and the Skater’s Waltz by Émile Waldteufel. ESYO Youth Jazz Orchestra performs the famed holiday classic (There is no place like) Home for the holidays, by Capital Region native Robert Allen and American Idol finalist Madison VanDenburg returns home to perform her hit new single, The Light of Christmas, with ESYO.  It is fun for the whole family.

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