A Festive Afternoon
Leo Eylar, Music Director
Julian Tso, Viola
Concert Highlights
Intermediate Strings
Beethoven: Overture from "The Creatures of Prometheus"
Debussy: "Animé et très décidé from Quartet in g minor
Copland: "Hoe Down" from Rodeo
Wind Symphony
Reed: Armenian Dances
Wagner: “Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral” from Lohengrin
Whitacre: October
Ticheli: Vesuvius
Associate Orchestra
Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches
Forsyth: Viola Concerto (Julian Tso, viola)
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Dvořák: New World Symphony
Associate Orchestra Concerto Competition Winner
An orchestra member of Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, Julian Tso, age 15, started learning the viola in the summer before fifth grade. Just three years into playing the instrument, he got accepted into the honor orchestra of the California Orchestra Directors Association, and was nominated to perform at the Winter Conference of the CMEA (California Association of Music Education) Bay Section as first chair viola.