{"id":13228,"date":"2014-02-18T00:41:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T08:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=13228"},"modified":"2014-02-19T08:48:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T16:48:39","slug":"pyp-presents-adventurous-enviable-program-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/18\/pyp-presents-adventurous-enviable-program-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"pyp presents adventurous, enviable program on saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a member of the Oregon Symphony, while being, essentially, a job, is often a joy as well. I get to play some of the greatest music ever written with my amazing colleagues. We have a wonderfully musical music director, and a hard working staff, without whom we would not be able to share our music with the public. But, every so often, I look at a program by our young colleagues at the Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP), and I feel a trace of envy.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_4589 by nobleviola, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nobleviola\/12608838184\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4589\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7322\/12608838184_0249f8aa9b_z.jpg?resize=580%2C435\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A youth orchestra has members that pay to be in the orchestra, instead of the other way around. They have auditions every year to essentially recreate the entire orchestra &#8211; if you need eight horns, you admit eight horn players, and there you have it. You don&#8217;t need to hire extras, like we at the OSO do. So, it&#8217;s not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison. However, the program that PYP is doing this coming weekend is causing me some serious envy. Why? Well, I&#8217;ll tell you.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_4592 by nobleviola, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nobleviola\/12608445635\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4592\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7429\/12608445635_33a3804d62_z.jpg?resize=580%2C203\" width=\"580\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First of all, they&#8217;re doing an overture by Oregon composer Kevin Walczyk, whose music has been performed by the OSO in the past (in fact, this work was commissioned by the Oregon Symphony to celebrate the beginning of music director Carlos Kalmar&#8217;s first season as music director), and is always lovely to listen to, and exceedingly well-crafted. Plus, performing works by Oregonians is just plain cool.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_4585 by nobleviola, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nobleviola\/12608450035\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7377\/12608450035_1ae07cc398_z.jpg?resize=580%2C326\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next, they have a freakin&#8217; viola soloist! Yes! Viola power! PYP Concerto Competition winner Samuel Zacharia is playing the Bart\u00f3k Viola Concerto, which was last played with PYP by a former student of mine, Caitlin Lynch, shortly after the cooling of the Earth&#8217;s crust. It&#8217;s a wonderful showpiece for the Cinderella of stringed instruments, and Samuel is sure to knock the performance out of the proverbial park.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06_BBfaQfo8\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally: Shosty Four. Shostakovich&#8217;s sprawling, seething, erupting, and exploding masterpiece is getting its first Portland performance in nearly 30 years. Ooh, I am so jealous of my PYP friends! I have performed this symphony once, when I was at the Peabody Conservatory, and it was an incredible experience. It calls for massive orchestral forces &#8211; which means that it costs a lot of money for a professional orchestra to program &#8211; and at just over an hour in length, it&#8217;s a huge piece in terms of time as well.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tBOdZIx00uo?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In short: this concert is not to be missed!<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 1, 2014 &#8211; Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>WALCZYK<\/strong>: Celebration Fanfare<br \/>\n<strong>BARTOK<\/strong>: Concerto for Viola<br \/>\nSamuel Zacharia, Viola, PYP Concerto Competition Winner<br \/>\n<strong>SHOSTAKOVICH<\/strong>: Symphony No. 4\u0003<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/portland-youth-philharmonic-portland-oregon-03-01-2014\/event\/0F004AF1BF4A52DB\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets and info.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a member of the Oregon Symphony, while being, essentially, a job, is often a joy as well. I get to play some of the greatest music ever written with my amazing colleagues. We have a wonderfully musical music director, and a hard working staff, without whom we would not be able to share our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3484,2,637],"tags":[243,3507,766,3508,2453,3509],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concert-preview","category-the-orchestra-world","category-youth-orchestras","tag-bartok","tag-fourth-symphony","tag-portland-youth-philharmonic","tag-samuel-zachariah","tag-shostakovich","tag-viola-concerto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3rm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3721,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/03\/pyp-musicians-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":13228,"position":0},"title":"pyp musicians&#8217; blog","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy New Year everyone!\u00a0 Now that the millennium is almost in its teen years, it's time to start looking to the future, and the future of music is nowhere more evident than in the ranks of our nation's youth orchestras.\u00a0 Right here in Portland we have the nation's oldest youth\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;portland&quot;","block_context":{"text":"portland","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/portland\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7400,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/12\/viola-night-at-portland-youth-philharmonic\/","url_meta":{"origin":13228,"position":1},"title":"viola night at portland youth philharmonic","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This past Friday night I went to see the Portland Youth Philharmonic's Winter Concert at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. 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