Youth Symphony Messages

2025-2026 Youth Symphony Season Repertoire

Fall Quarter (Sunday, November 23, 2025 at Benaroya Hall)
Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Winter Quarter (Sunday, March 15, 2026 at Meydenbauer Center)
Weber: Concertino for Clarinet – Elijah Washington, clarinet
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8

Spring Quarter (Monday, May 18, 2026 at Bastyr University)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1
Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2

Update: 3/31

Congratulations on navigating seating auditions during a very busy Monday night! You may find the seating audition results on the document below. Please print out any new parts and have them marked/ready to go for our next rehearsal on 4/13. (Remember there is no rehearsal on 4/6.) Enjoy your spring break!

Seating/Part Assignments for Spring Quarter

Update: 3/24

Thanks for some good sight-reading last night! After listening to you play, and taking your ideas and opinions into consideration, the following are the Prokofiev movements we will perform. Please arrange your music in this order, and discard the movements we won’t be playing.

Montagues and Capulets (Suite 2)
Scene (Suite 1)
Friar Laurence (Suite 2)
Minuet (Suite 1)
Masks (Suite 1)
Death of Tybalt (Suite 1)

Welcome to spring quarter!

Seating/Part Assignments for Rehearsal 1

Spring quarter music has been posted on the music links page since the beginning of the season. At the first spring quarter rehearsal, we will play through both Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet suites in their entirety, and from there we will choose which movements we want to play for the concert. Many of the parts have titles for the movements in Russian. Please label each of the movements with the english titles before the first rehearsal. See below:

Suite #1

1. Folk Dance
2. Scene
3. Madrigal
4. Minuet
5. Masks
6. Romeo and Juliet
7. Death of Tybalt

Suite #2

1. Montagues and Capulets
2. Juliet, the Young Girl
3. Friar Laurence
4. Dance
5. Romeo at Juliet’s Before Parting
6. Dance of the Antilles Girls
7. Romeo at Juliet’s Grave

Spring 2026 Seating Auditions
Seating auditions will take place during rehearsal on Monday, March 30.