The Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony, under the direction of guest conductor John Thomas, presents its Fall Concert on Sunday, November 19. Featuring 16-year-old trombonist Antonio Plaza, winner of our Concerto Competition, performing the beautiful Andante Cantabile from Rimksky-Korsakov’s Trombone Concerto, plus the World Premiere of The Middle of Nowhere, by 17-year-old composer Benjamin Goodwin, inspired by stories of his grandparents’ farm in Alabama.
Program will feature compositions by:
- Aaron Copland: Variations on a Shaker Melody
- Benjamin Goodwin: The Middle of Nowhere
- Jennifer Jolley: Motordom
- Maurice Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, 2nd movement
- John Williams: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
