NYO-USA performs its signature encore, Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture, under the direction of David Robertson during the orchestra’s Carnegie Hall debut on July 22, 2014. Watch additional highlights from this concert at: bit.ly/1nCz8oF
Porgy and Bess was written by George Gershwin and Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture was arranged by Robert Russell Bennett. This abridged version has been NYO-USA's signature encore since the orchestra's inaugural tour in 2013.
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Each summer, Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute brings together the brightest young musicians from across the country (ages 16-19) to form the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA). In 2014, following a two-week training residency with leading professional orchestra musicians, these remarkable teenagers were joined by conductor David Robertson and violinist Gil Shaham for an eight-city coast-to-coast US tour. To learn more about NYO-USA, visit www.carnegiehall.org/nyousa.
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Video
Director: Habib Azar
Associate Director: Jay Millard
Stage Manager: Carole Shure
Technical Director: James Sapione
Score Reader: Nicholas DeMaison
Cameras: Matt Bockelman, Hiram Becker, and Andrew Trost
Video Engineer: Steve Robinson
Audio
Courtesy of WQXR
Listen to the full broadcast archived on the WQXR website at www.wqxr.org/#!/story/national...
Music
"Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture"
By George Gershwin (ASCAP), Ira Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, and Robert Bennett
Chappell & Co., Inc. (ASCAP)
Frankie G Songs (ASCAP)
Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund Publishing (ASCAP)
Administered by Songs of SMP (ASCAP)
Arranged by Imagem Sounds