Dear YPSO Family, Friends, and Community,

While the orchestra took a brief pause mid-season in January of 2022 due to safety precautions from Covid, we are back and ready for action!

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This concert, which is situated in a timely manner, between Black History Month and Women’s History Month, delves into more modern composers and some very current themes. As an orchestra community, I think it is important for us to reflect - and to act - on furthering inclusivity. We are honored to be exploring the music and heritage of two living American composers  - Adolphus Hailstork and Jennifer Higdon -  and their themes of overcoming.  In it we can see our individual struggles to overcome and how to work together to promote a better world

I think that lessons we have learned in 2021, and are still learning, are about taking care of each other,  what it means to return as a music community, and quite literally playing together again as a team to achieve unity.

I am so impressed and inspired by the work our students have been doing, and I hope you’ll feel the same.

I look forward to an amazing 2021-22 season topped off with a long-awaited Summer Tour to Europe this June.

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YPSO is extremely grateful to be able to partner with First Congregational Church of Berkeley again.

Please respect the following ground rules for being on these premises and practicing proper safety protocols:

Phone use for photos and videos are OK, as long there are no flashes and you are not disrupting anyone else’s view. Please note that this concert is being recorded and the recording will be shared in the future via YPSO’s YouTube Channel.

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