Event Details:

Title: Joint performance of the Emirates Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Prague

Date: April 5, 2009

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Main Building Auditorium

Description: Sixty musicians under conductors Riad Kudsi and Ladislav Cigler will play a program including works by A. and M. Rahbani, F. Chopin, N. Paganini, P. Mendelssohn and A. Dvorak.

One of a number of highlights will be the violin solos by seven-yearold Korean prodigy Elli Choi.

Tickets cost AED 20 and will be on sale at the AUS cashier's window starting Wednesday.

Program

Zahrat Al Madaen Assi and Mansour Rahbani Re-orchestrated and adapted for big orchestra by Ghady Mansour Rahbani Vocal Solo by Palestinian Opera Singer Zeina Barhoum

Ballade in G minor F. Chopin Piano Solo by Palestinian Virtuoso Eiad Sughayer

Introduction and Tarantella ( Violin and Piano ) P. de Sarasate Violin Solo by Elli Choi (age 7) Piano Accompaniment by Young Eun Choi

Caprice No. 24 N. Paganini Violin Solo by Elli Choi

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor Op. 64 F. Mendelssohn Allegra Molto Appassionato (First Movement) Violin Solo by Elli Choi

Sonata for Two Trumpets P. Vejvanovsky

Symphony No 9 in E Minor Op. 95 A. Dvorak (From the New World)

I. Adagio - Allegro molto

II. Largo

III. Scherzo: Molto vivace

IV. Allegra con fuoco

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