Alumni
Alums! Welcome! Please join the YOOF Alumni Facebook page and group, and feel free to make suggestions about what you need on this page. Just email us at office@youthorchestrasfresno.org. Pictured here--just a few of the nearly 50 alums who joined us onstage for the anniversary concert!
Photos courtesy Tim Fleming. Order your own--they are much better in full size! Visit TIM A FLEMING'S PHOTOS.
DVDs of the Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration Concert, with 160 players, alums and current students, playing Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, are now available! Order yours now! (Order two and save.)
If you are an alum and you somehow have chanced on this website after the May 29 event, never fear. You are still welcome to submit an Alumni Update Form!
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Satoko Masuda, Jeanne Pugh Nelson / conductor Paul Vermel / Ann Guest, Louis Saunders Stanley Griffin Thanks for helping us identify the people in these photos. Paul Vermel joined us here on May 29! |
Here's what went down:
A bunch of alums (more than 40!!) performed as part of the mega-orchestra playing Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique at the Sunday May 29 celebration concert at the Saroyan Theatre.
- Saturday May 28, 1-2pm: potluck lunch (part of all-day rehearsal for current Youth Orchestra members)
- Saturday May 28, 2-6pm: rehearsal with YOOF members and alumni musicians who will be performing Berlioz
- Saturday May 28: 6:30-10pm: Alumni Dinner
- Sunday May 29, 1-4pm: dress rehearsal for YOOF members and alumni musicians who will be performing Berlioz
- Sunday May 29, 7pm: SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERT (followed by Painted Violin Auction)
By the way—if you have photos from your time in the youth orchestras, we would love to see them. If you can mail us copies, or even just scan the photos and email the files, we would be incredibly grateful. Remember also to friend our YOOF Alumni Organization facebook page, and to post photos there.
You might also want to friend our regular Youth Orchestras of Fresno Facebook page. It's always active.
Help YOOF locate alumni!
We continue our search for alumni of the variously named youth orchestras that have constituted this organization since its founding in 1950.
What you can do:
If you know of someone who was a member of the Youth Orchestras of Fresno (variously known as the Kiwanis Youth Orchestra, the Fresno Junior Philharmonic Orchestra [“Junior Phil”], and the Fresno Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, among other names)—or if you ARE that someone—let us know.
Signing up:
Alums can sign up online at our website (www.youthorchestrasfresno.org), filling out an alumni update form. The button is prominently displayed on our home page.
Joining our Youth Orchestras of Fresno Alumni Facebook page
This is incredibly easy--just click here, then click LIKE!
Here are some alums who have completed their forms and submitted photos. Join them!
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L-R: Claudia Shiuh, Jeff Strong, Hannah Hilarides, Walter Haman |
Check out this photo! The Youth Orchestras of Fresno began as a string ensemble but by 1952 had become known as the Kiwanis Youth Orchestra. This is a photo of that orchestra taken sometime after 1952.
Photo provided courtesy of the Kiwanis Club of Fresno. Photo credit: Clarence H. Heagy.
So far identified: male cellist in front ("with all the teeth showing") is James Heagy. Man in back is Malcolm Davison, Heagy's cello teacher and also the group's conductor. Beside him is bassist Linda Hamilton. Flutist Eddie Street (wearing glasses) is directly behind the blonde cellist; next boy flutist to the right in the photo had the last name of Whitten; girl cellist (glasses) in the front is likely Paula Mazuski.
Help us identify more faces! And send more photos if you have them!