Orlando, FL – On Sunday, February 3, Florida Symphony Youth Orchestras will present our second annual Spring Classics concert which will be held at the Edgewater High School auditorium. The concert will feature FSYO's Overture Strings, Prelude, and Philharmonia orchestras, and intends to recognize the invaluable contributions of classical music. The concert aims to encourage audience appreciation for classical music and the profound effect it has on student development.
FSYO Alumnus, Jean-Marie Glazer (cello), will be the guest artist at this concert, performing Petit Concert Pour Mon Garçon. This concert is the second time the Philharmonia Orchestra will be performing a concerto. Concertos have always been a privilege reserved for the Symphonic Orchestra until last season. Additional pieces that are being performed are by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Respighi.
"Petit Concert Pour Mon Garçon is a one-movement concertino in C minor that is about 10 minutes long. I wrote the cello part in a few hours, but it took me a year to structure the piece and orchestrate it. It was written as a gift for my son Jean-Marie's 18th birthday, although I am afraid he received it a year late.
Jean-Marie was hard at work practicing the Shostakovich cello concerto in the next room when I came up with the cello part, so of course, there are influences. However, I used some devices I have been working on in the past few years into the orchestra parts, such as the quickly shifting tonal centers using simple triads that one will hear clearly in the woodwinds in the middle section. The ending of the piece, with the addition of the choral on top of the cello part and the bubbling, repeated diminished motives, was an experiment in what the brain could process and how much the audience would adjust the balance, having just heard the cello play that same part.
The hope is that the cello part will come through even though the whole orchestra is playing quite loud. We shall find out the result of the experiment when we all hear the piece together for the first time, for which I am grateful to FSYO for making it happen". - Composer, Benoit Glazer
The concert will begin at 4:30 p.m. at Edgewater High School - 3100 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, FL 32804. Tickets range from $10 to $15 and can be purchased at www.fsyo.org. At this time we are happy to offer all furloughed federal employees and their families up to four free tickets per family for this performance. Please call our office at (407) 999-7800 to reserve your tickets. You will need to show a federal ID at the box office the day of the performance. As always, teachers receive free admission to this and most FSYO events.
ABOUT JEAN-MARIE GLAZER: Jean-Marie is a third-year student at Stetson University, pursuing music performance and chemistry, where he studies cello with David Bjella. He has won several competitions in Florida, including the Florida Lakes, Imperial Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, and FSYO's own concerto competition. He studied chamber performance with Charles Wetherbee in Florence, Italy, and often performs with the Space Coast Symphony.
ABOUT BENOIT GLAZER: Benoit Glazer has been a professional musician since 1980, taught at McGill University for a decade, and was the Musical Director at La Nouba, Cirque du Soleil, for 18 years. He writes music for fun, he has scored a few movies and written both jazz and concert music. He and his wife Élaine have been presenting concerts in their home since 2000, and they just had their 800th concert in January. You are always welcome to these concerts, many of which are "pay what you want", and feature musicians from all over the world. Find out more at www.timucua.com.
ABOUT FSYO: Florida Symphony Youth Orchestras exists to encourage children and young adults, through the practice and performance of orchestral music, to become passionate leaders, thinkers, and contributors in their local community and beyond. In its 62nd Concert Season. Today, FSYO serves almost 300 students and is comprised of seven ensembles - three symphony orchestras, one string-training orchestra, a chamber orchestra, two jazz orchestras - and two supplementary programs - Stringmania Summer Camp and Sing-Song, String-Along.
FSYO programs are carefully structured to encourage student growth with FSYO throughout their primary and secondary years. Florida Symphony Youth Orchestras full range of ensembles gives each student a place to excel with peers at a similar level, and an opportunity to collaborate with seasoned music professionals on local, national, and international levels. During summers, Symphonic Orchestra students participate in life-changing experiences of organized tours, alternating between international & national travel every other year.
Programs are sponsored in part by the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; Orlando Utilities Commission; The City of Orlando, Mayor's Matching Grant; and United Arts of Central Florida. We thank these groups for their generous support.
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