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Young Symphony return home following concerts in South Korea

| 16 Apr 2012 | 01:49
    Members of the Orange County Youth Symphony pose for the camera outside one of the concert halls they performed in during their trip to South Korea.
    Members of the Orange County Youth Symphony pose for the camera outside one of the concert halls they performed in during their trip to South Korea.
    Members of the youth symphony performed with four middle school Korean student singers who are studying opera.
    Members of the youth symphony performed with four middle school Korean student singers who are studying opera.
    While in South Korea, members of the Orange County Youth Symphony experienced Korean culture and cuisine. Pictured here, for instance, is a performance of traditional Korean dance.
    While in South Korea, members of the Orange County Youth Symphony experienced Korean culture and cuisine. Pictured here, for instance, is a performance of traditional Korean dance.
    The young Orange County musicians sample some Korean barbecue during a break in their performance schedule.
    The young Orange County musicians sample some Korean barbecue during a break in their performance schedule.

CENTRAL VALLEY — Members of the Orange County Youth Symphony recently returned from an eight-day trip to South Korea, where they performed in concert in the country’s capital of Seoul and in Chang Won City, an industrial city of more than one million people located in the southeastern part of the nation.

OCYS Artistic Director and Conductor Huadong Lu, who provided the photographs that appear here, reports that the American musicians also had opportunities to experience Korean culture, sample its cuisine and to mingle with young musicians from South Korea.

This was the youth symphony’s third cultural exchange program: OCYS performed in Beijing, China, in April 2010, and in Prague, Czech Republic, in February in 2011.

Meanwhile, the Youth Symphony will present its spring concert on Sunday, May 20, at 3:30 p.m. in the Monroe-Woodbury High School Auditorium. The program will include ‘Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart, “How-down” by Copeland, Mil yang - Arirang (a traditional Korean folk song), “Raiders March” by John Williams, “Pomp and Circumstance” by Elgar and the finale of “Symphony No. 9 “ by Dvorak.

More information about the Orange County Youth Symphony can be found online at ocysny.org.