Happy Birthday, IYSO!

In the organizer's words:

Program:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: "Romeo and Juliet" (Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare)
Shafi Badreddin: "Rhapsodie pathétique"
David Amram: Triple Concerto
Noam Sheriff: "Akeda"
Benjamin Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

The idea for an International Youth Symphony Orchestra (IYSO) came to Heiner Buhlmann, then director of the music school, in 1999 after many concert tours with his Bremen Youth Symphony Orchestra and the friendships that resulted. What began as part of the family concerts initiated by the Glocke developed into a success story. After a corona break in 2020, this international temporary orchestra with around 100 young people from 12 countries is now forming for the 25th time! This is reason enough to celebrate - with a program as cosmopolitan and open-minded as the composition of the orchestra. The "Rhapsodie pathétique" for kanun (an oriental fingerboard-less box zither) and orchestra by Syrian composer Shafi Badreddin is dedicated to the children who became victims of the civil war in Syria. Noam Sheriff's "Akeda" was composed in 1997 in memory of the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin. David Amram's Triple Concerto combines classical music, folk music and world music with jazz and Benjamin Britten's "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" uses a melody by Henry Purcell as the theme for 13 variations - Happy Birthday, IYSO!

International Youth Symphony Orchestra Bremen
Taoufik Mirkhan Kanun
Martin Lentz Conductor

Price information:

€ 20 (reduction 20 %)