What's Your Favorite Symphony Story?

We found this great Facebook page of people's most memorable symphony stories, and it got us thinking,"What's our favorite symphony story and why?"

We hope you have a terrific New Year and spend some time pondering your own favorite symphony story as we head into 2010!

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=7781543227&topic=8774

BYSO back at Bellevue Square!

It's been many years, but this holiday season BYSO returned to perform at Bellevue Square for the holiday season. With Santa's reindeer "Flying" above our Premiere Orchestra it was quite a festive performance. Led by conductor, Barney Blough, the group performed a number of seasonal pieces from around the globe. Smaller quartets also performed selections for this concert.

The Bellevue Square center court was packed with parents, friends, and shoppers and it was a very festive way to kick off the holiday season!

Announcing Ten Grands Concert

For the third year, students are invited to compete for a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to perform at the Ten Grands Concert on May 21, 2010 at Benaroya Hall. The competition is presented by Ten Grands Seattle and The Snowman Foundation. It's open to musicians between the ages of 6 and 18. Entry submission closes on Jan 31, 2010.



For all of the details and an entry form visit http://www.king.org/.



Good luck!

Double Bass - Check this article out

City Arts Magazine, is not only a great magazine, but now combined with Sound magazine (bringing more music coverage to each issue) and printing copies specific to Seattle, the Eastside, and Tacoma, it's technically 3 really great magazines!

This month we enjoyed the article, Double Bass, about Joe Kaufman, Seattle Symphony's assistant principal bass. He is a musician with a unique story to tell about his path to becoming a musician.

This article can only be found in the Seattle print version of this month's City Arts, but lots of great articles and features can also be found online at www.cityartsmagazine.com!

The Incredible Machine!

Last week we received an email with this amazing video and just had to share it with you!

This is a computer animation piece called Pipe Dream that was created by Wayne Lytle, Dave Crognale, and their team at Animusic. Wouldn't it be cool if there were a real machine out there that could do this?


(if the video does not work, please go to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2942922314315974986# to view the video)

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are thankful for all of our BYSO friends and family! We hope you have a safe and joyful Thanksgiving with family & friends.

We look forward to seeing you at one or many of our upcoming holiday concerts. For details go to www.byso.org.

Be sure to check back next week for a truly amazing video right here at The BYSO Blog!

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra

clipart from www.about.com , Bobbie Peachey

Upcoming Events!

We're getting ready for a busy BYSO November!

Here are our November concerts not to be missed:

11.17.09 - Next Performance: November 17. Debut East and West will perform a joint concert with Pine Lake Middle School.

11.22.09 - November 22 – SHOWCASE CONCERT I - Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center
A: Debut, Flute Choir, Sinfonia
Performance: 3:30

B: Premiere, Flute Orchestra, Youth Symphony
Performance: 7:00 p.m.
11.23.09 - November 23: Youth Symphony at Interlake High School with IHS band and orchestra, Performance Time: 7:30pm

GET INVOLVED!

In addition to the rehearsals and concerts BYSO offers lots of ways to get involved.

Coming up is the 10th Annual Concerto Competition on 11.21.09, and if you are part of a small ensemble let us know!

For more details please go to www.byso.org.