September 25, 2025: Host Christa Wessel welcomes MYSfits to All Classical Radio’s Irving Levin Performance Hall.
20 young musicians from the Metropolitan Youth Symphony join us for a performance and exclusive sneak peek of their 50st concert season. Then, composer Kenji Bunch and clarinetist James Shields share a preview of Fear No Music’s Locally Sourced Sounds Reading Marathon event.
Join us Thursday at 3:00 PM PT at 89.9 FM in Portland, OR or from anywhere in the world on our website.
ABOUT
For fifty years, Metropolitan Youth Symphony has celebrated its mission to educate, develop, and promote young musicians (6-18 years old) at all musical levels and from all backgrounds. With some of nation’s most comprehensive programming, MYS serves 400+ students from 142 schools in 15 orchestra, winds, jazz, strings, and percussion ensembles. MYS conductors are exceptional artists and educators, with instrumental coaches from the area’s top music organizations, including the Oregon Symphony. MYS provides a multi-level music theory program where composition is integrated at the earliest levels, as well as a summer chamber music program with faculty from the Oregon Symphony and Grammy-nominated Boston-based chamber orchestra, A Far Cry.
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