As musicians, music is one of the major ways we communicate and explore the world. Catherine John, ACFEA Tour Administrator, talks about getting to know a new place by learning about its music, from its people. *** In faraway lands, North American musicians encounter instruments that they have never seen or heard at […]
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As a touring ensemble, you have a unique opportunity to use music to connect with a larger world. Amanda Bauman, Senior Tour Manager, suggests ways of choosing repertoire to help you connect in the most meaningful way. *** If you ask someone to tell you about an experience they had on a concert tour, the
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For this church youth choir, connecting civil rights history to current events happened through sharing music, and taking the time to listen and learn. During the summer of 2018, the All Saints Trouvères from All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California embarked upon an incredibly challenging, illuminating, and ultimately hopeful concert tour.
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Stratus Chamber Orchestra’s immersive concert brought musicians and audience together in ways that neither may have anticipated — and left them with a new understanding of how a classical music concert could make them feel. While on tour to the Czech Republic in 2017, the Stratus Chamber Orchestra, based in Denver, Colorado, performed
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SRSYO in front of the giant billboard advertising their concert in the He Luting Concert Hall of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music The Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra (SRSYO) is one of the oldest continuous youth orchestras in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1959 as the Sonoma County Junior Symphony, in 1994 the organization became an education program of the professional
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