Vancouver: Youth orchestra celebrates 50 years
One anticipated highlight of MusicFest Vancouver is the performance by the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. It’s always rewarding to hear this remarkable concatenation of young talent, but this tour is extra-special: 2010 marks the organization’s 50th anniversary.
Youth orchestras have been around for a while in many different guises; in recent decades the concept of how young people make top-quality classical music has been transformed by many regional and national initiatives. The current buzz is Venezuela’s astonishing El Sistema, a social movement in the form of a musical endeavour, which has made a major star of charismatic conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
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