November 21, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Metropolitan Youth Symphony’s MYSfits and Cascadia Composers to the All Classical Radio studios.
MYS’s self-conducted string chamber ensemble will perform music by Mozart, A. R. Rahman, and more.
Cascadia Composers will preview their Fearless Lieder concert, which features songs by 11 composers on poems by four recent Oregon Poets Laureate, including Kim Stafford who will read.”
Join us Thursday at 3:00 PM PT at 89.9 FM in Portland, OR or from anywhere in the world via the live player on our website.
ABOUT
The Metropolitan Youth Symphony educates, develops and promotes young musicians.
MYS provides music education and performance opportunities for young musicians of all ages and levels of experience. Incorporated in 1975, they enroll 400+ youth from the Portland Metro and SW Washington areas in 15 ensembles including orchestra, winds, jazz, strings, and percussion.
Learn more at playmys.org.
Cascadia Composers is a welcoming and far-reaching cooperative of living composers that promotes a kaleidoscopic cross-section of new musical art, reflecting and beautifying the modern world.
Based in Oregon and comprised of over 100 composers, this non-profit is the largest local chapter of the National Association of Composers USA, and a go-to resource within the Pacific Northwest for exciting and inspirational music. Inclusive and accessible, Cascadia Composers celebrates diversity and an expansive palette of artistic voices. Members include professionals, composer/educators and students who work in virtually every musical genre: chamber music, jazz, choral music, musical theater, electronic and electro‐acoustic music, film and game music, world music and orchestral music.
Keep reading at cascadiacomposers.org.
