Basic info that you should know before going full steam ahead:
NYO-USA (which I will from now on just call NYO--you'll probably get a lot of NYO-Great Britain hits if you just search up NYO though) is a relatively new program that Carnegie's Weill Music Institute started the summer of 2013. They take about 120 musicians each year, including apprentices (which are like internships but with a music audition part), and tour all over the world, to a new country/countries each summer. This year, 2015, we are going to China, from Beijing to Hong Kong. Last year they did a coast-to-coast home tour of the US, and the inaugural year they went to Russia and England, ending at BBC Proms! The program is roughly a four-week course, with the first half residency training at Purchase College, and the second half of course touring.
NYO commissions a new piece every season to perform on tour, and the composer
A blog where a member of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America gladly and intricately recounts her experiences and thoughts along the NYO journey. She hopes you will join her here. (I need to stop talking in third person.)
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Welcome!
So I recently got accepted for the first time into Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra for the USA, and since I am beyond excited I thought it would be a great idea to record some of my memories of the trip on this here blog. I wanted to get started early just so I could get the ball rolling before I actually went up to New York for the summer. I actually originally wanted to vlog rather than blog, but because I don't know to what extent I'll be able to do that at NYO, I decided that I will stick to regular blogging and add video inserts when I can. So stay tuned if you're interested--I promise it'll be a wild ride--and share your own comments/experiences in the comments section below! Enjoy!
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