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Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras Newsletter
November 2006
Greetings Friends and Family of the CYSO!
If you pick up the newspaper, thumb through a magazine or watch a TV news show, you'll hear about all matter of things that plague “today's youth”. While I do not want to trivialize the serious pressures and decisions that face today's teens, I'd like to point out that the focus of the news is on what is negative, as if to continually underscore a sense of resignation concerning the future of this generation. Here at Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras we have a story to tell that is about good news.
Each week we see roughly 275 high school age students. Our students dedicate the better part of every Saturday or Sunday for forty weeks per year as participants in the CYSO experience. Why do they do this? They do this because of their love of orchestral music and the opportunity to be a part of the “collective” of people who feel exactly the same.
The skills each student must possess to be successful in this setting form the basis of what is needed to be successful in life. Our students exercise mature decision making in split-second situations to solve musical problems; they have the courage to express their deepest emotions through their music and often in front of an audience of thousands; they must yield to the direction of the conductor without compromising their ideals and they accept all of these responsibilities in a spirit of joy, discipline and respect.
We often publicize the fact that 100 percent of our graduates go on to attend a conservatory, college or university. This exemplifies who our students are and what they can accomplish. The story of each young musician is “good news”, and we thank them for being involved in our programs.
All the best,
Holly
In this issue
CYSO's 60th Anniversary Gala Celebration
60 Years of Music from the Movies!
Westin Chicago River North
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Chicago, Illinois
CYSO RAFFLE!!!!
Here's your chance to support the CYSO students and programs and also win fabulous prizes such as:
80 GB Dell Notebook Computer
23" Samsung LCD Flat Panel TV
80GB Apple iPod
Digital Camera from Central Camera
CYSO Gift Packages
Tickets: $20
Book of 6 Tickets: $100
Starting Sunday, November 12 at Orchestra Hall raffle tickets will be available at the CYSO offices or from any of our very talented young musicians.
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World Premiere of D.J. Sparr's Larghetto cum Loco
The CYSO Concert Orchestra will be performing the world premiere of D.J. Sparr's Larghetto cum Loco at the Chicago Cultural Center on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. under the direction of conductor Terrance Oliveras Gray. Larghetto cum Loco , completed in August 2006, was written for the Concert Orchestra and features a combination of baroque form with modern orchestration techniques and harmonies. Composer D.J. Sparr states, “I hope to have provided the young musicians of the Concert Orchestra with a piece that they would enjoy and an experience working with a living composer that will endear them to perform premieres for the rest of their lives.”
D. J. Sparr is one of the few composers of his generation who successfully combines vernacular American music with current practices and art-concert composition. Sparr performed and sang music of Willie Nelson, Jon Denver, and his own originals (one about a haunted house) as early as age five to great applause from his friends and family. Morphing from child-singer/country guitarist to a mullet-laden rocker during his teenage years, Sparr was then “saved” by entering the Baltimore School for the Arts where he studied classical music and jazz guitar.
Also included on the program are the CYSO 2006 Concert Orchestra Concerto Competition Winners Sang-Joon Won, clarinet and Carmen Abelson, violin.
This concert is free and open to the public
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Get to know the CYSO Board
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Younghee Jin Ottley
Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP
Member of the Development Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee
Ms. Ottley was the lead attorney in LG Electronics' acquisition of Zenith Electronics Corporation. She continues to provide advice to LG Electronics in connection with a broad range of matters involving Zenith, including financing transactions and securities law issues. Ms. Ottley recently closed a tender offer for Zenith's public debt and an asset securitization for Zenith and its affiliates. She also continues to provide advice to LG Electronics in connection with its investments and businesses in the U.S. and worldwide. She has been assisting LG Electronics with regulatory, contractual, and litigation matters. Ms. Ottley has provided pro bono legal services to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, International Business Division. She is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council at DePaul University College of Law and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Human Rights Law Institute at the DePaul University College of Law.
Ms. Ottley received a B.A. from Seoul National University in 1973. She received a J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in 1982 and an LL.M. from Columbia University in 1986.
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Upcoming Events
Debut Orchestra and Preparatory Strings Fall Concert
Concert Orchestra Fall Concert
The Nutcracker - CYSO with The Salt Creek Ballet
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