On December 7, Music Director Jaap van Zweden will conduct his first New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert, a program that will feature the world premiere of Sweating Bullets, written by Paloma Alonso, a twelve-year-old composer who is a member of the orchestra’s Very Young Composers program. The concert will also include selections from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2; Reena Esmail’s Testament, from Vishwas; and a selection from Steve Reich’s Music for Ensemble and Orchestra, a Philharmonic co-commission receiving its New York premiere by the Philharmonic that week. All Young People’s Concerts are preceded by YPC Overtures, at which children can meet Philharmonic musicians, try out orchestral instruments, and hear works newly written by composers their own age through the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers Program. Jon Deak—a composer and former Philharmonic associate principal bass—is director of the Very Young Composers Program, in which public-school students from diverse backgrounds in grades 4 and 5 compose music to be performed by Philharmonic musicians. Works by Very Young Composers will be performed on every Young People’s Concert this season.
Posted November 13, 2019
