Music
The SYO plays a variety of music by modern and classical composers. In 2009, the SYO will perform Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1 and 4. In 2010, the SYO will launch a competition for young Saskatchewan composers. The winner will have their composition premiered by the SYO the following season.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around—the music and the ideas.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“When in our music God is glorified,
and adoration leaves no room for pride,
it is as though the whole creation cried Alleluia!”
—Frederick Pratt Green (b. 1903)