Bryttan to conduct two concerts of New Jersey Youth Symphony

NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J. - Adrian Bryttan will conduct two upcoming concerts with the New Jersey Youth Symphony. This is his second year with the organization and he is now conductor also of the younger orchestra, the Philharmonia, in addition to the oldest orchestra, the Youth Symphony, which he led to a successful season in 1998 highlighted by the two performances of music with the film of Garbo's "Flesh and the Devil."

Mr. Bryttan will conduct the Philharmonia on January 10 in a program of works by Kenneth Leighton (Dance Suite No. 2), Merle Isaac (South American Overture) and others. Composer Myroslav Skoryk will also be represented on the program with his beautiful and popular "Melody for String Orchestra." The concert with the Philharmonia will take place at the Seton Hall Preparatory School, 120 Northfield Ave., West Orange, N.J., at 3 p.m.

The second concert will include Ukrainian American French horn soloist Alex Shuhan, an alumnus of the New Jersey Youth Symphony, in the Mozart Horn Concerto No. 1. The concert will begin with the Shostakovich Symphony No. 9 and will conclude with the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5. It will take place on Sunday, February 7, at 3 p.m. at Bridgewater High School on Garretson Road in Bridgewater, N.J. For further information call (908) 771-5544.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 10, 1999, No. 2, Vol. LXVII

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