Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Bonecos de Olinda

Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra

Benjamin Zander, conductor

Clarice Assad, composer, co-conducts

World premiere performance of Bonecos De Olinda

Recorded live in concert at Sanders Theatre in May 2019

Video: Dave Jamrog

View more about the piece here :https://clariceassad.com/bonecos-de-o…

The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra commissioned an 8-minute piece by composer Clarice Assad, Bonecos de Olinda, for their 2019 tour to Brazil. The world premiere performance was given at Sanders Theatre that spring. In an unusual move, Maestro Zander insisted that Ms. Assad join him and the orchestra on stage for the performance, to help convey to the orchestra the distinctive character of the piece. As the Boston Musical Intelligencer noted in their review of the concert, “Only someone familiar with the Brazilian-American composer (pianist, arranger, singer) Clarice Assad could have imagined that Benjamin Zander would be co-conducting on the Sanders Theatre stage yesterday with a jazz-dancing, scatting Doppelgänger.” We invite you to listen and dance along from home! This video is free to view at any time from the Boston Philharmonic Archive.