Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adelaide Youth Orchestra

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Atlantic306 (talk) 01:43, 10 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Adelaide Youth Orchestra[edit]

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Nothing to suggest notability, cannot find enough significant coverage from independent reliable sources. Fails WP:GNG. JayJay^{What did I do?} 02:50, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. JayJay^{What did I do?} 02:50, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. JayJay^{What did I do?} 02:50, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - a Google search shows a number of Adelaide Advertiser articles on the orchestra. Most of these organisations have a fairly significant history as the major youth orchestras in each state, and there would be sources on their history, probably you would need to look in a library for these. Deus et lex (talk) 12:19, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This is a notable organisation, but the page was lacking reliable sources. I have now added several (via a database search of Australian newspaper articles) and it looks OK to me. Cabrils (talk) 02:17, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Adelaide has been a UNESCO City of Music since 2015, and the Adelaide Festival of Arts, held since 1960, is considered to be one of the world's major celebrations of the arts, and a pre-eminent cultural event in Australia. AdYO is very much part of the musical establishment of Adelaide - it was founded in 2001 by one of Australia’s leading cellists and teachers at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, and its current artistic director & conductor, Keith Crellin OAM, was a founding member of the Australian String Quartet. AdYO has connections with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) through the ASO hosting Australian Youth Orchestra Fellows, and possibly also with the State Opera of South Australia. It is currently based at Carclew (then-named the Carclew Youth Arts Centre), but there are current plans to co-locate AdYO with the ASO:

... the State Government’s in-principle support "to fund a business case to assess the viability of an acoustic venue (concert hall) to serve the local music industry, as a home for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide Youth Orchestras, and as a hub for music education" in the Arts and Culture Plan South Australia, 2019-2024. We will continue to advocate for the pressing need for a home for music in South Australia and look to 2020 for clarity about the prospects for such a facility. ASO Annual Report, 2019)

Given that administratively AdYO is a separate organisation, IMHO the article should be kept separate and not merged with articles on the ASO, Carclew, or the Elder Conservatorium. It could be expanded - the AdYO website mentions Nicholas Braithwaite and Konstantin Shamray as being among its distinguished guest performers and conductors, but as the website is relatively new and only covers recent history, I'm sure that many more could be discovered through more research. Bahudhara (talk) 05:38, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep passes WP:MUSICBIO per Bahudhara and others above.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 00:01, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Aside: further historical (non-substantial) mentions: 1, 1951 backing Harold Blair, 2, 1964 backing Robert Helpmann and 3, 1997 background for a Celtic violinist. I'm curious, given that AdYO was founded in 2001, are these referring to an earlier same-named ensemble?-shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 00:01, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - if there was an earlier version of the same ensemble it can be incorporated into this article as well. Most sources would be offline I assume. Deus et lex (talk) 01:19, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment – I agree, that's why I raised it here. However I haven't found enough substantial sources to add it to the article.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 23:05, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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