Conductor

The MSU Symphony Orchestra shares the stage with Choral Union, State Singers, and University Chorale to perform a panoramic program depicting different aspects of the sea. Ralph Vaughan Williams used text from poems by Walt Whitman including “The Waves” and “On the Beach at Night, Alone” for his magnificent A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1). The final ripple of the program presents beauty and wonder with Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes. Octavio Más-Arocas and Sally Yu, conductors. Generously sponsored by Interim President Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D., and Thomas V. O’Halloran, Ph.D.

Symphony Orchestra And Msu Choirs: Songs Of The Sea

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Featuring the winner of the 2nd Annual Concert Orchestra Concerto Competition, this concert also includes music from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein and Astor Piazzolla’s sumptuous orchestral work, Tangazo. Additional works include Into Light by Marilyn Shrude and Bernstein’s Mambo. Katherine Kilburn and Sally Yu, conductors.

Concert Orchestra: Latin Dances And Love Stories

Igor Stravinsky’s collaboration with Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev was among the most powerful and fructuous unions of the 20th century. This concert will include one of the ballet scores Stravinsky wrote for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The musical prowess of Petrushka, a trickster puppet, reaffirmed Stravinsky as one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Octavio Más-Arocas and Sally Yu, conductors.

Symphony Orchestra: Puppets And Fireflies

Featuring Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, this program includes Valerie Coleman’s powerful tribute to freedom and unity, Umoja Anthem of Unity, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s delightful Petite Suite de Concert. Katherine Kilburn and Sally Yu, conductors.

Concert Orchestra: Anthem Of Unity

Celebrating the work of guest composer Gabriela Ortiz, this concert will feature her powerful Concierto Voltaje with timpani solo performance by MSU Professor of Percussion Gwendolyn Dease. This rhythmic concert also includes Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonía India) by Carlos Chávez, Sensemayá, for Orchestra by Silvestre Revueltas, and MSU Professor of Composition Ricardo Lorenz’s Todo Terreno, commissioned and premiered in 2022 by the LA Philharmonic. Octavio Más-Arocas and Sally Yu, conductors. Generously sponsored by Dr. Charles Gliozzo in memory of Marjorie Gliozzo.

Symphony Orchestra: The Power Of Rhythm

This program features Brahms’s light-hearted and boisterous nod to academia, Academic Festival Overture, the lyrical and reflective Nocturne by composer and MSU Associate Professor of Composition Zhou Tian, and Sibelius’s mystical and epic tone poem En Saga. Katherine Kilburn and Sally Yu, conductors.

Concert Orchestra: Mystical Lyricism

Featuring the dazzling Flute Concerto by American composer Kevin Puts, performed by MSU Professor of Flute Richard Sherman. The evening will also include the virtuosic Concerto for Orchestra by Béla Bartók, a true orchestral tour de force that elevates each section of the ensemble. Octavio Más-Arocas and Sally Yu, conductors.

Sally Yu

Conductor

Events

Past events

Apr 20, 2024

Symphony Orchestra And Msu Choirs: Songs Of The Sea · Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Feb 22, 2024

Concert Orchestra: Latin Dances And Love Stories · Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Concerto for Orchestra by Bartók

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Conductor in Petrushka by Stravinsky

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Conductor in Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonía India) by Chávez

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Conductor in Four Sea Interludes by Britten

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Conductor in A Sea Symphony by Williams

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Conductor in Sensemayá by Revueltas

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Conductor in Tangazo by Piazzolla

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Conductor in Academic Festival Overture by Brahms

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Conductor in West Side Story by Bernstein

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Conductor in Into Light by Shrude

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