Season 52

2003-2004

Senior Orchestra Roster

Prep Program Roster

March 2004 Concert

The Titan and the Waltz: Masterworks in Concert

The March 2004 concert series was a highlight of the season, featuring monumental works performed at the Flint Center and the San Mateo Performing Arts Center. The orchestra tackled the immense scale of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 , a work that serves as a profound metaphor for life, from the quiet awakening of nature to a titanic struggle with fate. The program also featured the vivid and swirling energy of Maurice Ravel’s La Valse , which portrayed the dramatic and frenzied end of an era through its lush orchestration.

Spotlight on a Rising Star: Jessica Ling

A centerpiece of the March concerts was the breathtaking performance of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto by sixteen-year-old violin prodigy Jessica Ling. As a winner of the 2003 CYS Young Artist Competition , Jessica brought both lyrical beauty and fiery precision to the stage. Her mastery of the concerto’s notoriously difficult "perpetual motion" finale was a testament to her extraordinary talent and the high caliber of young artists nurtured within the symphony.