Face the Music is a youth new music ensemble comprising more than 160 students from the New York City area, [1] ages 9–17, who focus on performing works by living composers.[2] One of the few American youth ensembles that is dedicated to contemporary music,[3] they have been called "polished, exuberant"[4] and one of “New York’s favorite contemporary-classical ensembles”[5]
Face the Music performing at the Brooklyn Lyceum, May 12, 2010
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