Program Notes
CLASSICAL SERIES
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series concerts 1, 2 and 3
- September 16-18: Copland’s Third Symphony, with Saint-Saens’ Third Violin Concerto
- October 7-9: Strauss’ Alpine Symphony
- October 28-30: Symphonie fantastique, Brahms and Mendelssohn
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series concerts 4, 5 and 6
- November 25-27: Dvorak Symphony No. 8, with Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto
- January 13-15: The Fountains and Pines of Rome, plus Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto
- January 20-22: Wagner’s Flying Dutchman and Barber’s Violin Concerto
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series concerts 7, 8 and 9
- February 10-12: Ruth Reinhardt Conducts Sibelius
- March 3-5: Ravel’s “Rapsodie” and Scriabin’s “Poem of Ecstasy”
- March 24-26: Holst’s “The Planets”
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series concerts 10 and 11
- March 31-April 2: Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Nielsen’s “Inextinguishable”
- April 21-23: Spring Celebration! Holst, Haydn and Hindemith
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series concerts 12, 13 and 14
- June 2-4: Stern Conducts Mahler and Montgomery
- June 16-18: The Rite of Spring, Ax Plays Beethoven
- June 23-25: Classical Series Finale! Broberg Plays Rachmaninoff, with Puccini and Tchaikovsky
POPS, FAMILY, HOLIDAY AND SPECIAL CONCERTS
- Digital Program Book for Harry Potter, Violent Femmes and Rufus Wainwright
- Digital Program Book for Pops Series concerts
- Digital Program Book for Family Series concerts
- Digital Program for Free Happy Hour concert on October 20
- Digital Program Book for Holiday Concerts: The Doo Wop Project, Handel’s Messiah, Christmas Festival, Elf in Concert
- Digital Program Book for Special Presentations: Black Panther, Indigo Girls, Disco Inferno, Michael Feinstein, The Princess Bride in Concert
- Happy Hour on February 1: A Black History Month Celebration
Program Notes Archive
2021/22
- NEW! Digital Program Book for Classical Series Concerts 1, 2 and 3
- September 24-26: Mahler’s “Titan” with Kahane’s World Premiere Piano Concerto
- October 29-31: Brahms’ First, Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1
- November 5-7: Scheherazade! Plus Strauss’ “Burleske”
- NEW! Digital Program Book for Classical Series Concerts 4, 5 and 6
- November 26-28: Schumann’s “Rhenish” with Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto
- January 14-16: Shostakovich’s Fifth, plus Gershwin’s Piano Concerto
- January 28-30: Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration, Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto
- NEW! Digital Program Book for Classical Series Concerts 7, 8 and 9
- February 4-6: Prokofiev’s Fifth, with Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations
- March 4-6: Elgar’s First, plus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24
- March 25-27: La Mer and Brahms’ Violin Concerto
- NEW! Digital Program Book for Classical Series Concerts 10, 11 and 12
- April 1-3: Petrouchka, plus Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
- April 22-24: Miraculous Mandarin with Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto
- June 3-5: Saint-Saens’ “Organ Symphony” and World Premiere of Rogerson’s Violin Concerto
- NEW! Digital Program Book for Classical Series Concerts 13 and 14
- June 17-19: Sleeping Beauty with Sibelius’ Violin Concerto
- June 23-26: Season Finale – Beethoven’s Ninth
POPS, FAMILY, HOLIDAY AND SPECIAL CONCERTS
- NEW! Digital Program Book for Symphony Pops Series concerts
- NEW! Digital Program Book for Handel’s Messiah, Christmas Festival and Home Alone
- NEW! Digital Program Book for Symphony Family Series concerts
2020/21
- Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, June 17-20: Season Finale! Debussy, Barber, Haydn
- Sunday, June 20, 2021 on MySymphonySeat.org: Transfigured Night
- Sunday, June 6, 2021 on MySymphonySeat.org: Stravinsky’s Octet, with Dvořák’s Serenade
- Friday, Saturday & Sunday, June 4-6: Mozart and More: Serenade and Sinfonietta
- Wednesday and Friday, May 26 and 28, 2021: FANFARE! Copland, Hailstork, Strauss, Stravinsky
- Sunday, May 23, 2021: Copland and Korngold
- Sunday, May 9, 2021: Symphony Pops: America – From Rag to Rock (artist bios)
- Sunday, May 9 Mother’s Day Free Performance: William Grant Still – Mother and Child
- Sunday, April 25, 2021: Grieg and Bartok
- Sunday, April 18, 2021: Copland and Tate
- Sunday, April 11, 2021: Stravinsky, Debussy, Bach, Higdon
- Sunday, March 28, 2021: Free Chamber Music Performance
- Sunday, March 21, 2021: Hailstork, Handel, Diamond
- Sunday, March 14, 2021: Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, with Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Oboes
- Sunday, March 7, 2021: Bio of Guest Conductor Jack Everly
- Sunday, March 7, 2021: Bios of Featured Soloists Julian Kaplan, Kayla Burggraf, Kristina Fulton and Sunho Kim
- Sunday, February 28, 2021: Mozart and Elgar
- Saturday, February 6, 2021: Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge
- Sunday, January 31, 2021: Vivaldi Meets the Marimba
- Sunday, January 24, 2021: Vivaldi, Puccini, Verdi
- Sunday, January 17, 2021: Tchaikovsky, Barber and Simon
2018/19
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- Opening Weekend: Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Symphonic Dances
- Beethoven’s Seventh and Grieg’s Piano Concerto
- Mozart, Bach, and Schubert’s Ninth
- Mozart’s “Jupiter” with Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto
- Russian Romantics: Tchaikovsky and Glazunov
- Enchanting and Exotic: Firebird, Aladdin and Rachmanioff
- Gershwin’s Cuban Overture and Dvořák’s “New World”
- Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” with Barber’s Piano Concerto
- Carmina Burana
- La Valse with Copland’s Appalachian Spring
- Stern Conducts Mahler’s Third
- Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto with Brahms
- Symphonic Metamorphosis plus Bach and Brahms
- Season Finale: Pictures at an Exhibition
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