Symphony String Orchestra & Repertory Romantic Orchestra at the SpringUP Festival
Now Streaming Through July 31, 2021
Venue: ESYO Virtual Concert Hall
ESYO Music Director Carlos Ágreda kicks off a weekend of virtual spring concerts with Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings and Clarice Assad’s “Dynamic, fresh” (The Aspen Times) “Impressions,” as well as Lyric for Strings by Samuel Barbers friend and Curtis Institute classmate, George Walker. Repertory Romantic Orchestra springs up with Franz Liszt’s cartoon classic Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 and the vivid Poem for Orchestra by film composer and TV arranger John Tatgenhorst.
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Jazz Orchestra, String Orchestra- GE Theatre & Repertory Classical Orchestra at the SpringUP Festival
Now Streaming Through July 31, 2021
Venue: ESYO Virtual Concert Hall
ESYO Jazz Orchestra, ESYO String Orchestra, and Repertory Classical Orchestra SpringUP together for an energizing concert featuring music by jazz greats Charlie Park and Miles Davis and classical giants like Beethoven, Brahms, and Rachmaninov.
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Symphony Classical Orchestra, Youth Percussion, & String Orchestra-Key Hall at the SpringUP Festival
Now Streaming Through July 31, 2021
Venue: ESYO Virtual Concert Hall
Take an evening stroll with ESYO Symphony Classical Orchestra, ESYO Percussion Ensemble, and the ESYO String Orchestra. Carlos Ágreda leads the Symphony Classical Orchestra on a music tour of Aaron Copland's Three Latin-American sketches, and the 2020 Lois Lyman Concerto Competition winner, William Lauricella, performs Piano Concerto No. 2 by Shostakovich. ESYO percussionists offer a healing prayer composed by ESYO’s own Richard Albagli, while ESYO String Orchestra explores the Brazilian-inspired Song for my Father by Jazzmaster Horace Silver.
Wind Orchestra Woodwind Choir, Wind Orchestra Brass Choir, & Concertino Strings at the SpringUP Festival
The blossoming members of ESYO’s Concertino Strings sprout and SpringUP online with music by Mozart and Handel. The perennial musicians of ESYO Wind Orchestra dance their way into spring with Enrique Granados Andaluza Spanish Dance No. 5 and Scott Joplin’s Rag-Time Dance, plus an arrangement of Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture.
Repertory String Orchestra & Symphony Romantic Orchestra at the SpringUP Festival
Now Streaming Through July 31, 2021
Venue: ESYO Virtual Concert Hall
ESYO Symphony Romantic Orchestra ushers in the spring sunset with Stravinsky’s enchanting Suites for Small Orchestra and Tchaikovsky’s musical retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Wistfully welcome the night with Vasily Kalinkov's Serenade for Strings and Brian Balmages tranquil tone poem, Dreaming, performed by ESYO Repertory String Orchestra.
ESYO Soundwalk
FREE || Take a Soundwalk through Albany's Washington Park. Curated and hosted by next-generation musicians and artists from ESYO's Young Leader Program, a Soundwalk is an immersive audio experience crafted to accompany a walker's self-guided stroll through Albany's historic park. ESYO musicians perform music by William Lauricella, Jason Handron, Matthew Kenyon, Mike Blostein, Monica Roach, June and Clare Criscione, Aaron Houston, and local composer Brett Wery. Plus a special guest performance by Musicians of Ma'alwyck.
Grab your headphones, download the app, and enjoy!
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