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The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra on WRTI: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, & Shostakovich, May 10 at 3 PM

Courtesy of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra
The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra performing at Verizon Hall in February, 2015.

The acclaimed Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, under Music Director Louis Scaglione, returns to WRTI with a Mother's Day concert broadcast. The program, recorded at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall this past February, opens with a performance of Shotsakovich's lively Festive Overture. Then, Philadelphia Orchestra violinist and PYO alumnus Richard Amoroso plays the Beethoven Violin Concerto. The closing work on the program is a Tchaikovsky favorite, the Symphony No. 5 in E minor.  

Jack Moore is your host on Sunday, May 10 at 3 pm on WRTI.

PROGRAM:

Shostakovich:  Festive Overture, Op. 96

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in e minor, Op. 64

Louis Scaglione, conductor

Richard Amoroso, violin

Watch the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra in concert in 2014: