Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra Tour Less than a Week Away

The Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra (SRSYO) will be departing San Francisco for Münich on June 19 to start a 10-day tour of Europe. Main stops are Salzburg, Vienna, and Budapest. My son is Principal Clarinet. I'll be going along as a chaperone/photographer/blogger.

The SRSYO 2018 Europe Tour blog is now up and running. See the blog for information about the tour, the upcoming Bon Voyage Concert on Saturday, June 16, in Weill Hall at the Green Music Center, and for daily updates on the concerts the group will perform in Europe and their other activities while away. https://srsyo.blogspot.com.

Music I'm Listening to: Tracy Silverstein (and my son) with the Santa Rosa Symphony

Some photos from last night's Santa Rosa Symphony concert. Maestro Bruno Ferrandis conducted Prelude and Liebestad from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, The Dharma at Big Sur for Electric Violin, by John Adams, and Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky. Tracy Silverstein was the soloist on electric violin, Jacalyn Kreitzer (mezzo-soprano) was soloist in the Prokofiev, which also featured the Sonoma State University Symphonic Chorus. My son, Warren, played a solo piece before the concert Rhapsodie for Solo Clarinet, by Giacomo Miluccio (1928-1999) as part of an appeal for donations to support the Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra's upcoming European Tour, in June, which will take them to Salzburg, Vienna, and Budapest. The photo above shows Warren, Principal Clarinet of the Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra with his teacher, Roy Zajac, Principal Clarinet of the Santa Rosa Symphony. Below is Tracy Silverstein with his six-stringed electric violin.