Upcoming Concerts
All concerts are free to attend
An American Songbook feat. the Gilbert Symphony Chorus
Program to include Copland’s Old American Songs with Robert Wright and the Gilbert Symphony Chorus
Season Finale: Brahms & Debussy
Program
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
Claude Debussy: Rhapsodie for English Horn and Orchestra feat. Kelsey Maes
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)