NEC Youth Philharmonic Orchestra

Did you miss this concert? Were you there and would like to hear it again—because once is not enough? You're in luck—
NEC has made it available at InstantEncore.

To play or download the performances, go to instantencore.com/necmusic—there are no fees involved. You will need to have or create an account to complete the process. Your account will also allow you to receive notifications of future concerts.

The Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, NEC Preparatory School's senior-most large ensemble, performs tonight under the direction of NEC's Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Director of Orchestras, Hugh Wolff, and Associate Director of Orchestras David Loebel. In addition to the extraordinary theatricality of works by Verdi, Beethoven and Debussy, the orchestra will delve into a 21st Century symphonic work that has received a great deal of attention and praise: Michael Gandolfi's The Garden of Cosmic Speculation.

Gandolfi, who chairs NEC's Composition Department, was inspired by Charles Jencks' book about one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by Jencks, an architectural critic and designer, and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. Gandolfi's work consists of numerous sections corresponding to different areas of the garden. The pieces can be selected and arranged freely by performers just as visitors to the garden can choose which areas they want to see. Debussy's La Mer is performed as part of the 2012 150th Birthday celebrations for Debussy.

Verdi Overture to La Forza del Destino
Beethoven Fifth Symphony
       Hugh Wolff, conducting
Gandolfi The Garden of Cosmic Speculation (two excerpts)
Debussy La Mer
     David Loebel, conducting