CYCNY, a Queens-based youth orchestra, will present its 12th Annual Concert at Lincoln Center on Saturday, May 24, 8 PM at Alice Tully Hall. Maestro Chijen Christopher Chung will lead more than 60 young musicians to perform works of Classical, Popular, Broadway and Asian Music.
The highlights of this concert will be:
The US Premiere of Composer Fu-Tong Wong’s Symphony Condor Heroes.
I Prelude: A Rebellious Departure from the Taoist Monastery
VIII Fantasy: Reunion at the Bottom of the Vale
The Percussion Ensemble of Youth Orchestra, CYCNY, will perform a solo section conducted by percussionist and composer Chi-Ching Grace Lin.
Event info:
Saturday, May 24, 2014, at 8 pm Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater
20% off for Students?Seniors
Available at: Alice Tully Hall Box Office 212.875.5050
CenterCharge 212.721.6500 or online at www.lincolncenter.org.
PROGRAM
Johann Strauss II: Overture from Die Fledermaus
Pietro Mascagni: Intermezzo Sinfonico from Cavalleria Rusticana
Fu-Tong Wong: Symphony Condor Heroes (US Premiere)
I Prelude: A Rebellious Departure from the Taoist Monastery
VIII Fantasy: Reunion at the Bottom of the Val
Percussion Ensemble/Chi-Ching Grace Lin, Director
Lalo Davila: Fire in The Groove
Chris Crockarell & Chris Brooks: Bucket Beats
ChiChing Grace Lin: Claps and Steps
John Rutter: “A-roving” from Suite for Strings
Yu-Shen Deng: Longing for Spring Breeze
Dmitri Tiomkin: High Noon Symphonic Suite
Howard Shore: The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring Symphonic Suite
About CYCNY:
The Youth Orchestra is a Queens-based Youth Orchestra founded in 1996. The orchestra holds its open audition in the fall for new members, and meets for rehearsal on each Saturday from 1-4 PM at MS 158 in Bayside, Queens from October to June. Our excellent faculty members are; Chijen Christopher Chung/conductor & string; Chiwei Chang /woodwind; Lovell Chang/brass; Chi-Ching Grace Lin/percussion.
The orchestra presents two formal concerts annually. One free Holiday Concert for the community during holiday season in Queens, and one Annual Concert at Lincoln Center in the spring. The orchestra also performs concerts for community service at senior center, community center- on May 10th, 2014 at Poppenhusen Institute at College Point, nursing home-on June 1st, 2014 at Silvercrest Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation. In past summers, this orchestra has organized concert tours to West Coast, Europe and Asia. The 7th Asia Tour was in the summer of 2012, where the orchestra visited Japan and Taiwan for concerts, sightseeing, and cultural experiences. ‘)}
