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Classical music education: Here are two blogs that allow you to follow the tour of Peru by the Youth Orchestra of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras
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By Jacob Stockinger
The Youth Orchestra (below top) of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras has landed in Peru, and has already rehearsed, and will officially launch its 10-day tour — which includes the capital city of Cusco and the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu (below bottom) — with a performance tonight in Lima.
And thanks to the foresight of the WYSO staff, you can follow the young musicians, along with retired WYSO music director and conductor James Smith, each step of the way until the tour ends on July 15:
Here is a link to a typical kind of blog:
https://wysoperutour.wordpress.com
Here is another version about the tour on Instagram:
www.instagram.com/wysoperutour/
And here is a link to more about the tour — including repertoire by Leonard Bernstein , Malcolm Arnold and Dmitri Shostakovich — and to the group, which gave its send-off concert this past Tuesday night at Olbrich Botanical Gardens:
Check them out and forward this tour blog story, or a link to it, to friends and family, classmates and the community at large.
You can leave a COMMENT and words of encouragement and praise,
They are making Wisconsin proud — and at a time when the United States could sure use some goodwill ambassadors around the world.
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