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NJSYO Marks the
End of a Tumultuous
Year with Concert
The past year has been unusual, to say the least. For students especially,
routines have been disrupted and in-person contact with
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in organizing rehearsals and performances throughout the year, often
having to adapt at a moment’s notice to comply with ever-changing
goal of the NJSYO has always remained consistent: to offer young people
an outstanding music education.
Given the recent challenges, the NJSYO’s end-of-season concert,
held on the lawn of the Middletown Arts Center, was nothing short
of outstanding. The concert featured three orchestras: the Preparato-
(middle school), and the Symphonic Youth Orchestra (high school). The
concert also featured
two ensembles:
the Chamber
Ensemble (strings)
and the Chamber
Winds.
Conductors Chelsey
Dokus, Joseph
Ciappina, Leo Soeda
and Ben Ringer
have traditionally
chosen music designed
to challenge students and truly showcase what they can do, and
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bastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvorák and Claude Debussy.
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sic going, holding out hope that this concert would become a reality.
This orchestra truly can do anything we set our minds to, and this season
proved it.”
Indeed, as if to celebrate both the beginning of summer and our
collective emergence from an unprecedented historic moment, the
concert also included a number of pop songs with an unmistakable
Stop Believin’.”
In closing remarks, Lakshmi Nadiminti, NJSYO Board president,
were gratefully acknowledged for the vital role in keeping the music
playing this year.
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chael Dews, Madeline Fields, Benjamin Lin, Leila Merhi, Isabel Papa,
Ella Rosetti, Kayla Thuel, Nicholas Trerotola, Michael Tsai and Madeline
Williams were recognized. As winner of Maestro Ringer’s classical mu-
twist, Tsai delivered a heartfelt, somewhat impromptu tribute to Ringer.
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ronment that is the NJSYO, an organization that he compared to a family,
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