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Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra
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Princeton, New Jersey 08543
(609) 683-0150
FAX: (609) 936-8771
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Patricia M. Cannon, Director-Marketing/Public Relations
(609) 333-9871
FAX: 333-9872
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 15, 2004
Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra to Perform Third Annual
Princeton-Pettoranello Italian American Cultural Exchange Concert at its Season
Finale - May 15th
World Premier of New Violin Concerto - COLORADO - to be Performed
Princeton, New Jersey - - The remarkably talented
musicians of the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra, under the accomplished
baton of Maestro Fernando Raucci, can be heard in their Third Annual Italian
American Cultural Exchange Concert, sponsored by the Princeton-Pettoranello
Sister City Foundation, to be performed on Saturday, May 15th at 8 P.M. at
Princeton University's prestigious Richardson Auditorium.
The orchestra will be performing a program of Italian and American composers to
promote the exchange of art and culture between America and Italy. Respighi's
Pini di Roma, contrasted against the world premier of Tim Keyes'
COLORADO, will be performed. The program will emphasize the link between
these two countries by musical expressions of Rome and Colorado's grand and
dazzling landscapes.
GPYO is proud and privileged to have been selected to perform the world premier
of COLORADO, written by the brilliantly gifted local composer Tim Keyes.
Inspired by the spectacular scenery of the American West, COLORADO, a
concerto for violin and orchestra, is composer Tim Keyes' newest work. This
majestic violin concerto in five movements, journeys the listener from the vast
Great Plain to the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, through Aspen groves to a
pristine mountain lake. The work concludes as the listener is brought to the
summit of the Continental Divide.
COLORADO was composed by Keyes for GPYO's ConcertMistress, Hope Cannon, a
senior at Montgomery High School in Skillman. Cannon will perform the violin
solo for COLORADO at this concert.
Keyes has also written a five-stanza poem to accompany COLORADO. A
professional actor from the Princeton Repertory Shakespeare Festival will read
each stanza before each of the five movements of this extraordinary concerto.
In addition, The GPYO Chamber Orchestra will be accompanying this year's GPYO
concerto competition winner, cellist Joseph Prencipe, in Haydn's Concerto for
Violoncello and Orchestra in D Major. Prencipe, a junior at West
Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, selected this piece for its lively baroque
style as well as its unique illustration of the cello's most beautiful sound.
Also, Verdi's Overture to Giovanna d'Arco will be performed jointly by the
GPYO Chamber Orchestra and GPYO's Camarata Chamber Orchestra. GPYO's Camarata
Orchestra is under the direction of its extraordinarily talented Music Director
and Conductor, Nathan Thomas.
Tickets to this performance can be obtained by calling the Richardson Box
Office at 609-258-5000 or can be purchased at the door. General Admission
tickets are $15 - Senior and Student tickets are $10. For more information on
and photographs of GPYO, please visit GPYO Website. For more information on
and photographs of composer Tim Keyes and soloist Hope Cannon, please visit
TimKeys.Com.