This season finale concert of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra's 2021/22 season shows just how far these talented young musicians have come under the direction of ASYO Music Director Jerry Hou.
01:35 Intro
03:55 Program
04:11 BIZET: Suite No. 1 from Carmen
17:17 Interview with ASYO senior Nathalie Park, trumpet
18:20 ELGAR: Cello Concerto, Mvt. IV
29:53 Interview with ASYO senior Richard Rowe III, viola
31:12 SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto, Mvt. I
48:25 Interview with ASYO senior Ivy Lee, flute
49:23 MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition [orch. Ravel]

The ASYO Finale concert begins with Bizet's masterful Carmen Suite No. 1. The opening prelude introduces the ominous theme associated with both Carmen and her fate at the hands of her lover, Don Jose. The following aragonaise (a dance from the region of Aragon in Spain) is the festive yet sinuous music that opens the final act of the opera as crowds arrive for a parade outside the bullring. An intermezzo, a serenely melancholic section based on the prelude to the final act, leads to a seguiedille that Carmen sings to seduce Jose. The suite ends with a jaunty military march, "Les Dragons d'Alcala," followed by the famous march "Les Toreadores," the entry of the bullfighters, which is actually the opening piece of the opera.

Then the ASYO's own cellist, Jonathan Fuller, performs the fourth movement of Elgar's contemplative Cello Concerto in E minor, which was written following World War I and has become a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Following, ASYO violinist Tobias Liu performs the first movement of Sibelius' only concerto, the symphonic Violin Concerto in D minor which features all sections of the orchestra equally.

Closing the concert and the ASYO's 2021/22 season is Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, which Mussorgsky wrote as an homage to his friend, artist Victor Hartmann, and are a series of musical depictions of ten watercolor canvases.

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