Image not available
Image not available
Image not available
Image not available
Image not available

Photostory #317: Canada's Young Musicians Delight Symphonic World: National Youth Orchestra in Summer Season

Photographers
André Sima , Ted Grant
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
August 7, 1962
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
One hundred talented, young musicians are spending their summer vacations hard at work with Canada's National Youth Orchestra. From across the nation they are assembling in Toronto for 10 days of rehearsal prior to giving concerts in Buffalo, New York (August 15), St. Catharines, Ontario (August 16), and at Stratford's summer festival (August 19). Now in its third year, the National Youth Orchestra Association of Canada was initiated in 1960 by Walter Susskind, internationally famous conductor, who had previous experience with Great Britain's National Youth Orchestra. To qualify, members must be between 14 and 25 years, have proven musical talent. Through the National Youth Orchestra, young Canadian musicians learn to play in a symphony orchestra under professional conditions, thus assuring a supply of first-class instrumentalists for tomorrow's national symphony orchestras. Already, after sparkling concerts in three past sessions, they have won the acclamation of music critics in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Stratford, have learned to share their art under the baton's magic influence, have captivated music lovers with their youthful, eager zest and polished performances. Playing under such well-known conductors as Wilfrid Pelletier and Victor Feldbrill, they have demonstrated that young people can bring a refreshing breeze of excitement and vitality to the sophisticated world of serious music, promise a bright future for Canada's symphony orchestras.
Locations: