RIDGEFIELD -- With special singers, dancers, and the debut screening of their promotional video, Music Director Petko Dimitrov led the Ridgefield Symphony Youth Orchestra in an action packed program at East Ridge Middle School last Sunday afternoon. The 40 or so members of the RSYO have really been on a roll lately, playing at a Connecticut Youth Orchestra Festival at Yale and at Carnegie Hall last month. Later this month they fly to Vienna to perform in a series of concerts there.
I wish I could go along for the ride, as I'm sure they'll have some incredibly enriching experiences in the classical music capital of the world. Their new video was shown as a prelude to the concert, and emphasized the cultural value for the community that the RSYO has been providing for the last five years. The RSYO gives aspiring performers a supportive environment where their music making skills are developed while delivering entertainment for concertgoers in the area.
It's a win-win situation for all of us. RSYO founder and President Gina Wilson happily introduced the various organizations involved with the collaborative effort. Dimitrov explained that the program would feature music for a wide range of dance styles, with and without actual dancers onstage.
They opened with something to get up and dance to, jumping into action with "Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 8" by Antonin Dvorak (1841 "" 1904).
With alternating lightness from the woodwinds contrasting with percussive eruptions from the entire ensemble, they got into the Slavic spirit nicely.
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