In Thursday’s (3/28) Recorder (Greenfield, Massachusetts), Anita Fritz reports, “It won’t be long before some of the county’s young musicians will have the opportunity to play for the Pioneer Valley Symphony Youth Orchestra. A collaboration of Pioneer Valley Symphony, Greenfield Public Schools and Artspace Community Arts Center, the youth orchestra will be the first connected with PVS in its 74-year history, said Anna Wetherby, a 20-year member of the orchestra and its personnel manager. The youth orchestra, whose members will come from Franklin County and beyond, will begin its inaugural season in the fall, with PVS Assistant Conductor Jonathan Brennand conducting. … Wetherby said with the youth orchestra comes the opportunity for growth of PVS and of the community. ‘This has been in the works for five years,’ she said. ‘Educational programs are the cornerstone of the Pioneer Valley Symphony’s mission.’ … Wetherby said with so many schools cutting, or entirely eliminating, funds for music education from their budgets, there are few local opportunities for young musicians to play symphonic music together in high school.”
Posted March 28, 2013
