Pflueger, Prado to Conduct Orchestra at Levitt Pavilion July 27
Bethany Ann Pflueger, a resident of Sierra Madre, will conduct the Pasadena Summer Youth Chamber Orchestra at Levitt Pavilion July 27.
The Pasadena Summer Youth Chamber Orchestra will perform at Levitt Pavilion, Memorial Park, in Pasadena at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 27 in a program of the music of Bernard Herrmann, J.S. Bach, Karl Jenkins, William Grant Still, and Benjamin Britten.
Founder-manager of the PSYCO, Roberta Wilcox, has enlisted the talents of two local music educators to conduct the orchestra: Bethany Ann Pflueger and Chad Prado. Pflueger, a flutist, is a Professor of Music at Glendale Community College. Prado, a violist, teaches Music Education at the elementary school level in the Pasadena Unified School District.
PSYCO, that is, the Pasadena Summer Youth Chamber Orchestra, is not without a sense of humor. One of the numbers on the program is taken from Bernard Herrmann’s score to the Alfred Hitchcock film “Psycho”. Other music will be Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 3; Jenkins’ “Palladio” Concerto Grosso; “Serenade” by William Grant Still; and Britten’s “Simple Symphony”.
The Pasadena Summer Youth Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1986 by Wilcox to give talented high school and college students an opportunity to play with outstanding conductors and study classical music.
Levitt Pavilion is in Memorial Park which is located at the corner of Raymond Ave. and Walnut St., Pasadena. The concert is sponsored by the Pasadena Senior Center.
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