Upcoming Concerts
February is for…
Program
Michael Markowski: Joyride (Arizona Statehood Day)
George Walker: Lyric for Strings (African American History Month)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet (Valentine’s Day)
John Philip Sousa: The Boy Scouts of America March (Boy Scouts of America Anniversary)
Leigh Harline: When You Wish Upon a Star (Tell a Fairy Tale Day)
Aaron Copland: Lincoln Portrait (Presidents Day)
From Brazil to Beethoven
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon per Sonar Duodecimi Toni à 8
Charles Gounod: Petite Symphony
Ney Rosauro: Concerto for Timpani, Movement I feat. Christopher Holley
Season Opener: An Americana Evening
Program
Dudley Buck: Festival Overture
Amazing Grace (arr. by Charles Fernandez)
feat. John Friedeman (bassoon) and Angela Robinson (bass)
Roland Seitz: March Grandioso
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2
Emily Morricone: Once Upon a Time in the West
feat. Tricia Wright, (soprano) and the Gilbert Symphony Chorus
Randall Thompson: The Testament of Freedom
feat. the Gilbert Symphony Chorus
Classical Music from Classic Cartoons
Program
Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D Minor Fantasia
Rossini: Largo al factotum The Long-Haired Hare
Rossini: Barber of Seville (featuring soloist Robert Wright, Baritone) The Rabbit of Seville
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Rhapsody Rabbit, Rhapsody In Rivets, The Cat Concerto
Brahms: Hungarian Dances No. 5 Pigs in a Polka
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Allegro ma Non troppo” Fantasia, The Simpsons: Itchy, Scratchy, and Marge
Williams/Ottman: Superman Returns Superman & Superman Returns
Offenbach: Can Can Looney Tunes: Back in Action
From Dvořák to Queen: A Bohemian Spring
Program
Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 1 “Presto”
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 with Theodore Buchholz, cello
Freddie Mercury: Bohemian Rhapsody
Smetana: Three Dances from “The Bartered Bride”
A Salute to Veterans
Program
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Bach: Fantasia in G (arr. Martin Province)
Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
Armed Forces Medley (arr. Bob Lowden)
Season Overture: Beethoven, Schubert and Bizet
Program
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Bizet: L'Arlésienne No. 2
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”
William Tells All - A Quodlibet on Possibly Recognizable Tunes (Apologies to Gioachino Rossini)