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Listen to the Future!
CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASEncore Chamber OrchestraSaturday, October 22, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. Contact: Amanda Goedde Music Director, Allen Tinkham, conducts the Encore Chamber Orchestra, representing the most advanced students of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, at DePaul University 's Concert Hall including guest performer Amy Ellen Anderson-de Jong, mezzo soprano. The program includes the Orchestral Suite from Virgil Thompson's The Plow that Broke the Plains , Aaron Copland's Old American Songs and Appalachian Spring . The concert is free and open to the public. Mezzo-soprano, Amy Ellen Anderson-de Jong is an artist whose performances in opera, song and oratorio have taken her throughout the United States , to Europe and Asia . Highlights include a featured role in a world premiere at the Lincoln Center Festival, performances as a mezzo soloist in the Mozart Solemn Vespers and Durufl é Requiem at Carnegie Hall, and the Liebeslieder Waltzes with the American Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City . Ms. Anderson was also featured in the North American Premiere of the Rimsky-Korsakov Opera, “May Night” with the Sarasota Opera. The Encore Chamber Orchestra is formed from the top Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra (CYSO) students upon invitation of the Music Director. Highlights from the 2005-06 season include performances at the Chicago Humanities Festival, the City of Chicago 's 9 th annual Celtic Fest and a performance on the Public Radio International series “From The Top”. In addition to annual fall and spring concerts, Encore also performs education concerts and an annual production of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker in collaboration with the Salt Creek Ballet. During June 2005 Encore completed a ten day Central European tour to Vienna , Prague and Budapest , and became the first youth orchestra to perform in the new National Concert Hall in Budapest , Hungary .
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