The Philharmonic Orchestra Performs Ginastera, Stravinsky, Saint-Saëns, Glazunov and Borodin, San Jose

The San Jose Youth Symphony, founded in 1951 under the San Jose Symphony, incorporated as an independent nonprofit organization in 2002, providing musical education to thousands of local kids. Now comprising 12 groups of varying sizes and experience levels, the orchestras and instrumental ensembles perform in several regularly scheduled concerts every season, as well as a biennial international tour that gives the Philharmonic Orchestra the chance to travel to exotic locales and learn which countries have the fluffiest hotel towels.