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September 2020
Fanfare! Opening Night 2020
PROGRAM INFO Courtney Lewis, Music Director James Ehnes, Violin SZEWCZYK River City Fanfare MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C minor Grammy Award-winner James Ehnes opens the season alongside Courtney Lewis and the Symphony with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, a Romantic masterpiece full of dazzling vivacity and tender melodies perfectly suited to Ehnes’ seemingly boundless facility. The program opens with Jacksonville Symphony violinist Piotr Szewczyk’s River City Fanfare, and concludes with a piece that needs no introduction, Beethoven’s fateful Fifth Symphony. Concerts begin at 7:30 PM. Performances are expected to last between 60 and…
Find out more »October 2020
Mozart and Beethoven
PROGRAM INFO Courtney Lewis, Music Director Conrad Cornelison, Principal Bassoon PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical” MOZART Bassoon Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 A feast for fans of the Classical Era, this program maps the style’s course from the late Eighteenth Century to the early Twentieth. Principal bassoonist Conrad Cornelison performs Mozart’s only surviving bassoon concerto, penned by an 18-year-old who was already a master. Beethoven’s Eighth may be the most stylistically Classical of his nine symphonies, reminding us that one…
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PROGRAM INFO Courtney Lewis, Music Director Conrad Cornelison, Principal Bassoon PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical” MOZART Bassoon Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 A feast for fans of the Classical Era, this program maps the style’s course from the late Eighteenth Century to the early Twentieth. Principal bassoonist Conrad Cornelison performs Mozart’s only surviving bassoon concerto, penned by an 18-year-old who was already a master. Beethoven’s Eighth may be the most stylistically Classical of his nine symphonies, reminding us that one…
Find out more »Music of the Knights
PROGRAM INFO Gonzalo Farias, Associate Conductor A celebration of Britain’s most legendary songwriters – Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney. Music of the Knights honors their lasting musical influence with songs like “Memory,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Circle of Life,” “Don’t Let the Sun go Down on Me,” “Hey Jude” and many more! Concerts begin at 7:30 PM. Performances are expected to last between 60 and 75 minutes and there will be no intermission. Masks must…
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PROGRAM INFO Gonzalo Farias, Associate Conductor A celebration of Britain’s most legendary songwriters – Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney. Music of the Knights honors their lasting musical influence with songs like “Memory,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Circle of Life,” “Don’t Let the Sun go Down on Me,” “Hey Jude” and many more! Concerts begin at 7:30 PM. Performances are expected to last between 60 and 75 minutes and there will be no intermission. Masks must…
Find out more »Stravinsky’s Symphony in C — Symphony in 60
PROGRAM INFO Courtney Lewis, Music Director STRAVINSKY Symphony in C Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony in C exudes the tremendous upheaval he experienced during its composition: losing much of his family, recovering himself from tuberculosis, and emigrating from France to the United States at the onset of World War II. Masks must be worn at all times.
Find out more »Haydn and Stravinsky
PROGRAM INFO Courtney Lewis, Music Director HAYDN Symphony No. 92, “Oxford” STRAVINSKY Symphony in C Over his 104 symphonies, Franz Joseph Haydn single-handedly codified the genre’s conventions. By the time he wrote his 92nd, “The Oxford,” he was breaking his own “rules” in order to create explosions of humor and surprise. Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony in C exudes the tremendous upheaval he experienced during its composition: losing much of his family, recovering himself from tuberculosis, and emigrating from France to the…
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PROGRAM INFO Courtney Lewis, Music Director HAYDN Symphony No. 92, “Oxford” STRAVINSKY Symphony in C Over his 104 symphonies, Franz Joseph Haydn single-handedly codified the genre’s conventions. By the time he wrote his 92nd, “The Oxford,” he was breaking his own “rules” in order to create explosions of humor and surprise. Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony in C exudes the tremendous upheaval he experienced during its composition: losing much of his family, recovering himself from tuberculosis, and emigrating from France to the…
Find out more »November 2020
Cirque de la Symphonie
PROGRAM INFO Gonzalo Farias, Associate Conductor You’ll be dazzled by the combination of beautiful music and amazing acrobatic feats when Cirque de la Symphonie’s aerialists, strong men, jugglers and more join the Symphony for an unforgettable performance. Concerts begin at 7:30 PM. Performances are expected to last between 60 and 75 minutes and there will be no intermission. Masks must be worn at all times.
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PROGRAM INFO Gonzalo Farias, Associate Conductor You’ll be dazzled by the combination of beautiful music and amazing acrobatic feats when Cirque de la Symphonie’s aerialists, strong men, jugglers and more join the Symphony for an unforgettable performance. Concerts begin at 7:30 PM. Performances are expected to last between 60 and 75 minutes and there will be no intermission. Masks must be worn at all times.
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