The Urban Youth Orchestra of Orchestrating Diversity, St. Louis' El Sistema music for social change program, emerges from the pandemic to present a concert on Sunday 7 August, 2022 at 4:00 pm. The concert will feature the 18th century Black composer, Chevalier de Saint George. Saint George was a violin virtuoso living in France and […]
Orchestrating Diversity: El Sistema St. Louis, a stand-alone social change through music education, presents a concert of Baroque music. Featured cellists Brandon Bennett ,13yo, and Justin Collins, 18yo) will perform the Vivaldi Concerto for 2 cello. The Urban Youth Orchestra will also perform a Harmoniemusik by J. C. Stumpf based on Mozart's "La Clemenza di […]
Summertime and the living is .... hot! What better way to spend an afternoon than at Orchestrating Diversity's summer concert in the beautiful, (and cool!) Pilgrim Congregational Church. The concert starts with Dvorak's Slavonic Dances 1 & 3 Op. 46. Gabrielle Williams, 15 is featured in Albinoni's Oboe Concerto in B-flat, and cellist Brandon Bennett, […]
All children ages 5 and older are welcomed to join our Junior Urban Music Program for our annual music camp. Sessions run from 8:30 to noon, Mondays through Fridays. At Pilgrim Congregational UCC, 826 Union Blvd. We offer: • Basic music literacy to all children. • They will also receive beginning through intermediate • instruction […]
Orchestrating Diversity: El Sistema St. Louis announces their annual winter concert, "Remembering Leonard Bernstein (a tribute on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the conductor, composer, author, and educator). The Urban Youth Orchestra will premiere a Suite composed for them on four songs from West Side Story. They will also perform the El Sistema […]