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OYO to Celebrate its 40th Anniversary Posted on the Contra Costa Times Website on Friday, May 21, 2004 By Cindee de la Vara The Oakland Youth Orchestra is celebrating its 40th anniversary Sunday, May 23, with a concert at Calvin Simmons Theatre in Oakland. OYO resident conductor Bryan Nies and artistic director Michael Morgan will conduct the group. "You have to experience (the concert's musical program) in person," said Morgan, who also directs the Oakland East Bay Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic and Walnut Creek's Festival Opera. "There is an excitement that simply cannot be duplicated." Sunday's program includes pieces by Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov and Mozart. Soloists Jiebing Chen on the erhu, a Chinese violin, and Danielle Taylor, on violin, will be featured. The 80-member orchestra includes students from 40 cities and six counties. The orchestra was founded in 1975 and offers a symphonic music education program to students through summer camps, master classes and weekly rehearsals. The orchestra is supported by tuition, individual, corporate, foundation and government grants. Its members are looking forward to Sunday's concert -- and to the group's summer tour, said Barbara Stack, the orchestra's executive director. Members of the group are set to serve as musical ambassadors across the Pacific. On a five-city concert tour of Australia and New Zealand, about 65 students will perform in Melbourne, enjoy an Aussie lifestyle in Sydney and go sightseeing in New Zealand. The orchestra musicians, ages 13-22, will depart from San Francisco on June 22 and return to the Bay Area on July 2. The group's tour includes six performances in concert halls from Sydney's Conservatorium of Music to the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna, New Zealand. "This tour only happens every three years," said Stack. "Fund-raisers are going on all the time for this tour -- it's a big deal." "If they don't go, it's not because of finances. We offer scholarships to musicians who need help -- it's because of other plans or an illness," explained Stack. The tour will include a visit to the Southern Hemisphere's tallest building, Rialto Tower, which offers a 360-degree panoramic views of Melbourne and its surrounding area, a trip aboard a Sydney Harbour luxury vessel for a morning coffee cruise, a performance with the Canberra Youth Music Association and a tour of the Melbourne Zoo. Contra Costa Times
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