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Causes: Arts & Culture, Symphony Orchestras
Mission: Vocal techniques that capture the style, spirit, and distinctive sound of those times. We share our music through live performances and recordings, and activelyreach new audiences through our educational offerings and (cont on schedule o)
Programs: Concert series (including promotion and marketing): the orchestra performed a series of six concert sets in the san francisco bay area (24 separate concerts) and thereby entertained an audience of about 16,000 music lovers.
touring and contracted services: the orchestra, chorale and chamber players performed nine additional times in runouts and on tour: an august east coast tour of scarlatti's la gloria di primavera at tanglewood in lenox, ma and norfolk, ct; october runout performances of beethoven at harris center in folsom, ca and green music center in rohnert park, ca; a november runout performance of vivaldi at bankhead theater in livermore, ca; a november collaboration with yale's institute of sacred music at harvard and yale universities; a special sessions performance of handel's joshua at jccsf in san francisco; and a baroque & beats performance at san francisco's dna lounge for mercury soul. The total attendance at these concerts is estimated at 4,550.
education: the orchestras education offerings during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017 included a free student concert for public independent, and home school groups; five in-school ensemble presentations serving 35 schools, including a seminar at harvard university. Young artist training programs included three public masterclasses; eight mobile mentor coachings for school ensembles; and a workshop for the junior bach festival. Pbo was active in the community through program residences at oshmann jcc in palo alto and at san francisco community music center and offered programs for community events such as crowden music centers family community music day. Adult presentations included pre-concert lectures, a workshop in collaboration with cal performances and new york dance company, a workshop for (continued on schedule o)