Youth Conquers All

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PARIS One of the world's busier orchestras is the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, created in 1981 and re-created annually in auditions in which more than 100 musicians – ranging in age from 12 to 20 - are selected from more than 300 aspirants in the greater Bay area. This year's ensemble winds up its current foreign tour, its seventh, with a concert Thursday in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw.

The tour began July 1 in Vienna's Musikverein concert hall and reached Paris on July 7 for a concert before an almost full house at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. The program included Aaron Copland's "El salón México," Max Bruch's Violin Concerto in G minor, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 and a generous smattering of encores, conducted by Edwin Outwater, the orchestra's music director who is also resident conductor of the San Francisco Symphony.

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