Geração Youth Orchestra – 10 years playing lives
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Location
Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationThe Geração Orchestra | Portugal System is a project that deploys the learning of music by young persons and communities as a means of social inclusion.
Commemorating 10 years of existence, the Geração Youth Orchestra returns to the place of its foundation in 2008 for a concert that also commemorates the centenary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein, with a performance of the iconic Mambo of Symphonic Dances (from West Side Story) conducted by the maestro Ulyses Ascânio.
Program
Fandango (from the Alentejana Suite no.1), by Luís de Freitas Branco
4th Movement in Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op.67, Ludwig van Beethoven
Somewhere (from West Side Story), Leonard Bernstein
Slav March in B minor, op. 31 (conducted by Juan Maggiorani)
Interval
Ode to Youth (final of the 4th Symphony in E minor, op.16)
Andante (from Two Melodies for a String Orchestra), Luís de Freitas Branco
1812 Overture, op. 49, P. I. Tchaikovsky
Mambo (Symphonic Dances, from West Side Story), Leonard Bernstein