Join AYS at UCLA’s Royce Hall for the first concert of the 2022/23 season as the orchestra explores the journey of life through Nabors’ Onward. This piece takes the listener through moments of discovery, innovation, and change that launches the audiences to the future through soundscapes produced by the orchestra.
American Youth Symphony’s 2022 Concerto Competition Winner, John Fawcett, will bring us Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Violin Concerto. The three-movement concerto was published in 1912 and dedicated to Maud Powell, one of the first American women to gain recognition as a violin soloist: doing so even before women had the right to vote. The piece brings us original folk-inspired melodies and complex shifting harmonies. The concert will conclude with Mahler’s classic Symphony No. 1 – the Titan, a very demanding piece for the orchestra.
Lobby doors will open 30 minutes before the concert at 6:30pm and the concert will include an intermission after the violin concerto.