The MYA Symphony Orchestra is based in Highwood, Illinois and offers many musical enrichment opportunities for young musicians.
On this Saturday’s broadcast, we feature the Midwest Young Artists Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Stravinsky’s ground breaking 20th century masterpiece The Rite of Spring.
The MYA Symphony Orchestra performed this piece in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston as a part of their spring concert on Sunday, May 3, 2015. The program will also feature the finale of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 with soloist Ilya Kaler, professor of violin at DePaul University School of Music.