Event Title:

Organization:

  Concert

  Oakland

Start Date:

  5/19/2013

End Date:

  5/19/2013

Start Time:

  3:00 PM

End Time:

  5:00 PM

Event Info: 

  The award-winning Oakland Youth Orchestra (OYO) will present a spring concert focused on folk roots. The afternoon will feature the world premiere of Bay Area composer Jack Perla's "The Rhyme Is Reason," specially commissioned by Oakland Youth Orchestra and supported through a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. Joining OYO on stage for the premiere will be members of the Oakland Unified School MUSE Orchestra for an exciting performance conducted by John Kendall Bailey. The concert will also feature Pablo de Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen," with violinist Young Sun (Angel) Kim-winner of OYO's 2012-2013 Concerto Competition Britten's "Suite on English Folk Tunes: A Time There Was..." and Copland's Four Dance Episodes from "Rodeo."

http://www.oyo.org

Location:

  Castro Valley Center for the Arts

Room:

Address:

  19501 Redwood Road

Phone:

City:

  Castro Valley

State/Province:

  CA