MYSO is operating as a nonprofit under the fiscal sponsorship of the Collaborative Arts & Culture Foundation.
For those wishing to donate to the Mariposa Yosemite Symphony Orchestra by check, please make your check out to "CACF" and be sure to write "MYSO" on your check's memo line.
Please send to:

CACF - MYSO
Harmony Rancho
2627 State Hwy 49 S
Mariposa, CA 95338

Tickets

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Program Notes

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Our 20th Anniversary Season

Dear Friends of the MYSO -

Now that our 20th Anniversary Season has continued into a new calendar year (2025,) I'd like to wish you a belated Happy New Year on behalf of all the musicians of the MYSO - but we'd also like to wish you a wonderful Spring! And what better way to celebrate the arrival of Spring (albeit three weeks late) than our April 12th and April 13th Spring Concert weekend?

First, the where: Our Saturday Evening April 12th 7 PM Concert will be held at Mariposa's First Baptist Church. For those who joined us at our Festive Holiday Concert in 2023 in that loving and gracious setting of the Baptist Church's warm auditorium, we all discovered the tremendously excellent acoustics of that huge room. And we're not only thrilled to be back there, but looking forward to having you join us there, too.

The address of Mariposa's First Baptist Church is 5005 Frank Wilson Road, with the driveway adjacent to the Mariposa County Human Services complex - on Highway 49 North, just a mile or two past the four-way stop at the end of town. Tickets for that concert are now on sale, just by visiting https://tinyurl.com/MYSO4-12-25 and please note: buying your tickets in advance means you'll get a discount, at only $10 for Adults and $8 for Students. Those prices increase dramatically to $15 for Adults and $10 for Students at the Door on the evening of the concert. Just visit that link, make your purchase, and that's that! Nothing to print out; no worries at all - just show up at the concert and your name will be checked off against our master list.

Here are a couple of links in case someone needs directions...
Mariposa Map
Google Maps Pin

The concert will be repeated the next day as a 2 PM Matinee in the Garden Terrace (room) of the Yosemite Valley Lodge. And that's courtesy of our biggest donor - Yosemite Hospitality LLC, a subdivision of Aramark. Our concerts in Yosemite are made possible through the great generosity of Yosemite Hospitality, Mr. Nick Sponaugle VP - as well as our longtime, very special partner: Yosemite National Park and the National Park Service. Our Yosemite concerts are offered at absolutely NO cost - FREE! Although we do suggest a $10 per person donation at the door.

Here's what's on this fabulous program:

   •Robert Schumann: Overture to "Manfred"
   •Edvard Grieg: Suites 1 and 2 from "Peer Gynt"
   •Georges Bizet: Suites 1 and 2 from the Opera "Carmen"


Now THIS is great music. I hope you've come to realize by now that I painstakingly program every piece for our concerts for YOUR pleasure. It's of critical importance to me to program music that is familiar to your ear, and music that may be unknown to you, but which is worthy of BEING heard; being KNOWN.

And such is the case in spades with THIS concert! From Grieg's rapturous "Morning Mood" and the sheer terror of "In the Hall of the Mountain King," this is music you know, and love! And talk about "Carmen"! More of the world's greatest and most memorable music which, yes: you've heard before! From the "Toreador" Song to the "Habanera" to the "Séguedille" to the infectious, rousing-beyond-belief "Gypsy Dance" - well, this is a positively not-to-be-missed concert of this, YOUR Mariposa Yosemite Symphony Orchestra!

Don't forget to read my revealing notes linked above - so you can impress your friends and family with your astonishing knowledge of this music and its composers!

See you there - and be ready to thoroughly enjoy yourself!

Our 20th Anniversary Season. Wow!