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Wharton Music Center 2013 Spring Gala Features Concert By New Jersey Youth Symphony And Paterson Music Project

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New Jersey Youth Symphony at Musikverein in Vienna, Austria in June 2012
Location: 1607 Irving St, Rahway, NJ 07065
When: April 20, 2013
Time: 6:00 pm

Wharton Music Center celebrates its 2013 Spring Gala on Saturday, April 20 at Union County Performing Arts Center located at 1601 Irving Street in Rahway, New Jersey. The Gala, its annual fundraiser, will feature New Jersey Youth Symphony in concert beginning at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited to the concert. Tickets can be purchased at the Union County Performing Arts Center box office at www.ucpac.org or by calling 732.499.8226.

 

The premiere orchestra of New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS), Youth Symphony, will perform movements from Holst’s The Planets and Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 as well as works by John Williams and Andrew Lloyd Webber. NJYS Youth Symphony is under the direction of Jeffrey Grogan who is also Artistic Director of NJYS.

 

A special feature of the concert is the first public performance by second-grade students from Community Charter School of Paterson who are enrolled in Wharton Music Center’s Paterson Music Project. The Paterson Music Project students will join the NJYS musicians in a piece composed for the combined orchestras by Taylor A. Goodson entitled Fanfare and Rondo for Orchestra. The composition was commissioned especially by Maestro Grogan and NJYS for the concert.

 

Paterson Music Project an El Sistema-inspired music program in Paterson, New Jersey came to life in January 2013 as the vision of Wharton Music Center Executive Director Derek Mithaug, Jeffrey Grogan, and Community Charter School of Paterson Principal Marnie McCoy began to be realized. Thirty second-grade students joined the after-school music program to learn to play violins, violas, and cellos and learn about music. Sponsored by Wharton Music Center, Paterson Music Project has blossomed to life under the direction of Jeffrey Grogan. The 2013 Wharton Music Center New Jersey Youth Symphony Spring Gala marks the students’ first performance.

 

El Sistema, originated in Venezuela by Dr. José Antonio Abreu over 30 years ago, provides a model of how a music program can both create musicians and positively impact the lives of children. Students are immersed in learning music several days a week and taught by loving and caring music teachers. Students learn to respect themselves and each other as they work together as a group. El Sistema incorporates such core values as “every child has limitless possibilities and the ability to strive for excellence.” As an El Sistema-inspired program, Paterson Music Project at CCSP offers a structured environment for fostering social change and youth development through music to enable participating students to feel valuable within their community. Visit www.elsistemausa.org for more information regarding El Sistema.

 

A small program devoted to string instruments for CCSP second grade students, Paterson Music Project is the first step in developing a full-fledged orchestra for the entire elementary school, which is growing to encompass kindergarten through eighth grade. Thanks to funding from The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Dombal-Vogel Foundation, The Provident Bank Foundation, The Henry M. and Agnes R. Truzack Foundation, and the Wallerstein Foundation, the strings program was launched.

 

The mission of Paterson Music Project is to use music as a vehicle for social change by empowering and inspiring children through the community experience of ensemble learning and playing. Students attend two-hour classes three times a week after school. Instruction includes instrumental instruction separately for violin, viola, and cello, general music activities, solfege class, and history and cultural activities. Every Thursday is “Performance Thursday” where parents are invited to arrive 10 minutes early before dismissal to listen to the class perform what they are working on. Students in the Paterson Music Project are encouraged by dedicated, talented, and nurturing faculty members. Coordinating the Paterson Music Project is violinist and faculty member Elizabeth Moulthrop. Assisting her are faculty members cellist Terrence Thornhill, and violist Shanna Lin. For more information on the Paterson Music Project, visit www.njys.org/paterson-music-project-2/ .

 

NJYS Youth Symphony includes 95 students in grades 9 through 12. Students audition each year to gain a seat in the orchestra. Many members of YS continue on to study music in leading conservatories and attend some of the most prestigious universities in the world. This past year under the direction of Conductor Jeffrey Grogan, Youth Symphony has performed in the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria and at Carnegie Hall in New York as well as Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway, New Jersey.

 

YS recently collaborated with internationally recognized musical celebrities such as violinist Mark O'Connor, the Ahn Trio, and Stefan Höskuldssohn, principal flute of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. They recently rehearsed Holst's The Planets with Maestro Jacques LaCombe, Music Director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. This spring, YS will be featured on a DVD+CD with the Ahn Trio performing Mark O'Connor's March of the Gypsy Fiddler. YS students also serve as mentors, teachers, and performers with students in the Paterson Music Project.

 

Wharton Music Center, located at 60 Locust Avenue in Berkeley Heights, provides music, theater, and dance instruction, educational programs, and performances for children, teens, and adults. In addition to instruction in all instruments and voice, WMC offers classes in musical theater, dance, drama, choral music, vocal music, music theory, audio recording, early childhood music, and music for children with special needs. Offering a range of musical genres including classical, rock, jazz, and blues, WMC is one of New Jersey’s largest independent non-profit community music centers serving students in Union, Morris, Essex, Somerset, Middlesex, and surrounding counties.

 

WMC offers orchestral and ensemble music education for grades 3 through 12 through New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS) located at 570 Central Avenue in New Providence. NJYS, one of the foremost youth orchestras in the state, has ten orchestras and ensembles for which auditions are held annually.

 

For more information, visit www.WhartonMusicCenter.org or www.NJYS.org. Wharton Music Center is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. 

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