HVP Young People's Concerts

Myths and Legends Tues April 20, 2004 10 & 11:45am at the Bardavon Wed April 21, 2003 10 & 11:45am at the Bardavon The Young People's Concert is interactive and uses the theme Myths & Legends to introduce students to serious classical music. Hosted by musician, David Wallace and actor David Anzuelo, it features the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of guest Conductor Marietta Cheng. Our goal is to enrich the lives of children by exposing them to beautiful music. We hope you will join us for this original concert. The interactive concert and hands on residency activities will engage your students through creative exploration and active musical participation. Developing your students’ natural musical competence will ensure that they will become successful hearers, and awaken their interest in the many ways music plays out in school learning and life. The repertoire for Myths & Legends will include: DeFalla Ritual Fire Dance Glinka Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla Beethoven Overture to Creatures of Prometheus Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute Wagner Overture to The Flying Dutchman Plus a solo performance by the winner of the Virtuoso in Progress Competition and a performance of a composition written by local students. Before attending the concert we strongly recommend participating in, Classroom to Concert, a program designed to give your students the ultimate musical experience. Juilliard trained teaching artists David Wallace and Nadege Foofat to work in classrooms to prepare students to successfully hear the marvelous pieces and thus feel the joy and revelation that makes people lifelong lovers of classical music. In the classroom, students are involved in musical activities that engage them in the artistic issues of each piece. Teaching artists will work with up to 50 students per session and up to 4 sessions per day. A study guide and CD will be provided to educators Marietta Cheng begins her fifth year conducting the Young People's Concerts. Fewer than 100 women in the US are employed as music directors and conductors of professional orchestras. Ms. Cheng headed the Corning Philharmonic for 10 years and now holds the baton over the orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. She is a full professor of music at Colgate University. David Wallace received his Doctor of Musical Arts at the Juilliard School with Richard F. French Prize. He designed Juilliard's inagural Young People's Concerts and incorporated music into regular curriculum of inner-city public and private schools as a Morse Fellow. Actively involved in education, Dr. Wallace is a Teaching Artist for the New York Philharmonic and the Lincoln Center Institute and is on the faculty of the Juilliard School. Nadege Foofat is a graduate of the Juilliard School. She studied under the tutelage of Karen Tuttle while participating in the Columbia exchange program. Originally from Canada, Nadege is the Director of Stone Ridge Summer Strings, a music camp for children 8-16. She will be attending Yale for her Masters of Music degree in 2003-04. Nadege performs regularly as a violist and teaches privately in the Hudson Valley. David Anzuelo is an accomplished actor, singer, dancer and choreographer. His most noted theatre performances are Richard Schechner's Hamlet, Peter Sellars' Merchant of Venice, and Blade to the Heat (Chicago Production). He has also appeared on Law & Order, Third Watch, and The Sopranos. The Bardavon Opera House, Inc. is a non-profit, member based organization. The 2003-2004 Daytime Performance Series is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. Generous support is also received from the Dyson Foundation; the Thomas W. & Florence T. Murphy Fund of the New York Community Trust; Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust; Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust; Ann & Abe Effron Fund; Harold & Helen Ross Charitable Trust; Northeast Dutchess Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; the NYS Legislature through the Office of the Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation; the Dutchess County Arts Council, as a funded member; Poughkeepsie City School District; Beacon City School District; Friends of Millbrook Music in Schools; Second Hand Rose/Community United Methodist Church; SalomonSmith Barney; Stewart's Shops; Chevron Texaco; and Fleet.