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Concert Season 2008-2009 |
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September
19 & 21 * |
University
Symphony
Alexander Jiménez, Music Director and Conductor
Xu Hui, Piano
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
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Opperman Music Hall |
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October 3 & 4 |
University Philharmonia
Alexander Jiménez, Music Director and Conductor
VERDI: Overture to Nabucco
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Suite from the Wasps
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5
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Opperman Music Hall |
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October 10 & 11 |
University Symphony
Alexander Jiménez, Music Director and Conductor
Corinne Stillwell, Violin
BARBER: Essay No. 1 for Orchestra
RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto |
Opperman Music Hall |
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October 21 & 22 |
Jazz Ensemble I
Leon Anderson, Conductor
Jazz favorites featuring award-winning jazz faculty
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Opperman Music Hall |
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October 24 |
Wind Orchestra
Richard Clary, Music Director and Conductor
Winds in Masquerade
HINDEMITH: Symphonie: Mathis der Maler
GRYC: Masquerade Variations
BOLCOM: Song for Band
DAUGHERTY: Bells for Stokowski
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Opperman Music Hall |
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November 3 & 4 |
University Singers and Chamber Choir
Kevin Fenton, Conductor
André Thomas, Conductor
PART: Cantata Domine Canticum Novum
PART: Bogoroditse Djevo
STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms
BARNETT: Selections from Bluegrass Mass and choral works from musical settings of the great poets.
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Opperman Music Hall |
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November 18 & 19 |
Symphonic Band
Patrick Dunnigan, Conductor
Dance, Dance, Dance! A potpourri of concert classics inspired by various dance genres, including Malcolm Arnold’s Four Scottish Dances and Robert Russell Bennett’s Suite of Old American Dances. |
Opperman Music Hall |
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February 13 & 14 |
University Philharmonia
Alexander Jiménez, Music Director and Conductor
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2
Plus…the winner of the Young Artist Competition (takes place November 2008) will be featured.
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Opperman Music Hall |
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February 17 |
Wind Orchestra
Richard Clary, Conductor
Dream Worlds
THEOFANIDAS: Etenraku
THEOFANIDAS: I wander the world in a dream…
TICHELI: Sanctuary
PERSICHETTI: Symphony No. 6, Op. 96
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Opperman Music Hall |
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March 26, 27, 28, 29* |
Spring Opera – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by Benjamin Britten
Douglas Fisher, Conductor
Matthew Lata, Director
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Opperman Music Hall |
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April 2 & 3 |
University Symphony
Alexander Jiménez, Music Director and Conductor
Read Gainsford, Piano
Heidi Louise Williams, Piano
Jeffrey Biegel, Guest Pianist
ZWILICH: Peanuts Gallery (1996)
ZWILICH: Millennium Fantasy for Piano (2000)
ZWILICH: Images for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1986) |
Opperman Music Hall |
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April 6 & 7 |
Chamber Choir
André Thomas, Conductor
BACH: Jesu, meine Freude |
Opperman Music Hall |
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April 17 & 18 |
University Philharmonia
Alexander Jiménez, Music Director and Conductor
Also featuring the University Singers
CHADWICK: “Jubilee” from Symphonic Sketches
BRUCKNER: Te Deum
KALINIKOV: Symphony No. 1 |
Opperman Music Hall |
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April 22 |
Symphonic Band
Patrick Dunnigan, Conductor
Holst Centennial Celebration!
Tribute concert marking the 100th anniversary of Gustav Holst’s classic Suite in E-flat for Military Band. Written in 1909, this landmark piece set the standard for contemporary band literature of the 20th Century.
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Opperman Music Hall |
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denotes matinee performance
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