Riverside Symphony Inc

Programs: Subscription concertsriverside symphonys 36th anniversary season, 2016-2017, comprised three subscription concerts at alice tully hall, lincoln center. The season opened on october 28, 2016 with a program for string orchestra, highlighted by the world premiere of american composer anna weesners revised still things move, and astor piazzollas four seasons of buenos aires featuring violinist alexi kenney. A january 28 concert featuring the prizewinning contrabassist ha young jung witnessed the new york premiere of mexican composer juan trigos concerto for bass, with iberts divertissement and haydns seldom-played symphony 91 rounding out this intriguing program. The april 1 season finale featured guitarist robert belinic in the new york premiere of en la tierra by west coast composer donald crockett, whose americana overtones played into a concert unified by composers speaking in their native musical tongue. These included ravels tombeau de couperin, prokofievs classical symphony, and holsts st. Pauls suite. Concert attendance for all three performances ranged between 850 and 900. Audience engagement: hear hear! Riverside symphonys efforts to engage audiences, particularly with classical music, as well as a means to sharpen listening skills, continued with the orchestras pre-concert hear hear! Program, now in its fourth year. This activity, in which the evenings contemporary selection is performed in advance of the concert with commentary from riverside symphonys directors and, when possible, the composer, continued for the 2016-17 season. This season, the symphony featured anna weesners still things move, juan trigos concerto for bass, and donald crocketts en la tierra. All three composers were in attendance to offer commentary on their works attended by an approximate average of 100 audience members. Salon series: music up closedating back many more years, riverside symphonys salon series continues to enhance a sense of community with the orchestras audience by providing rare access to an expert, yet down-to-earth introduction to the programmed works, a week or so prior to every concert. With both recorded and live music to illustrate and illuminate (the latter usually provided by featured guest soloists), riverside symphony is truly offering a special, in-depth experience. During 2016-17 riverside symphony's artistic director anthony korf and was joined violinist alexi kenney for the first salon at dj vu boutique. Bassist ha young jung was featured at the second salon, held at the mexican cultural institute. The third salon, held at the national opera center, included guitarist robert belinic.

music memorythis past school year, music memory, the music education program riverside symphony introduced to new york city schools in 1999, served over 4,800 third through sixth graders and their teachers from 36 schools citywide. The program combines an innovative classroom-learning program (including nyc-doe-accredited professional development workshops for participating teachers) with an annual citywide music memory finals, an event at which students, cheered on by classmates, are called upon to identify the composer and title of the works they have learned throughout the school year. This seasons citywide finals, which took place at nyu's skirball center for the performing arts on may 18, 2017, featured riverside symphony and singers, and 35 competing teams from 18 participating schools. There is no cost to the schools for participation in this program. The finals were attended by an audience of about 300 family members, teachers, and friends.

other programs - ticket subsidy programbeginning with its first concert in 1981, riverside symphony has been committed to bringing timeless music to the widest possible audience. Today, the orchestra continues to serve new yorkers of limited means by making tickets to its subscription concerts available on a subsidized basis to those for whom cost is a barrier. The orchestra's ticket subsidy program provides free or deeply discounted admission to individuals served by social service, and health and welfare centers; senior programs; and educational institutions selected as partners from diverse community organizations throughout the five boroughs. More than 50 community organizations were offered tickets, and 16 participated in the orchestra's ticket subsidy program in 2016-2017 season, resulting in resulting in over 800 redeemed tickets.