Cornell Symphony Orchestra

Program:

• Benjamin Britten: Serenade for tenor and horn, Op. 31 with David Gordon (tenor) and Alex Shuhan(horn)
• Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D major

Program:

• Beethoven: Overture to Coriolan
• Jennifer Higdon: Blue Cathedral
• Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor

Family Weekend Concert

Program:

• Beethoven: Overture to Coriolan
• Jennifer Higdon: Blue Cathedral
• Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor

Program:

• Igor Stavinsky: Pulcinella Suite
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater with Judith Kellock and Milagro Vargas

Program:

• Kyle Blaha: Light (dark), conducted by Cynthia Johnston Turner
• Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
• Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel)

Program:

• Forrest Pierce: Cedri Lebani (world premiere)
• W.A. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto with Rick Faria
• W.A. Mozart: Double Piano Concerto in E-flat major, K. 375, with Xak Bjerken & Miri Yampolsky

Program:

• Gabriela Frank: Three Latin American Dances
• Cesar Franck: Symphonic Variations with Malcolm Bilson (piano)
• Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (compiled suite from 1 & 2)

Details:

Romeo & Juliet: The Montagues and the Capulets (suite 2), Romeo and Juliet (suite 1), Romeo at Juliet's Parting (suite 2), Death of Tybalt (suite 1), Romeo at Juliet's Grave (suite 2)

Program:

• Terry Riley: In C

Five World Premieres of Cornell DMA Composers

Program:

• Spencer Lambright: Granite Statutes
• Xi Wang: Crows Over Wheatfield
• Chia Chi Chen: Song Cycle for Judith Kellock
• Steven Gorbos: Pineapple Slicer
• Tom Schneller: Harlequinade

Program:

• John Cage: Child of Tree
• John Cage: Radio Music
• John Cage: Music for Amplified Toy Pianos

Program:

• Liduino Pitombeira: Cello Concerto with Dennis Parker
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a

Program:

• Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor with Cornell Concerto Competition winner Julie Moon
• Ottorino Respighi: Pines of Rome (with Brass players from Ithaca College School of Music)

Program:

• Aaron Copland: Quiet City with Julia Capurso (English Horn) and Olivier Theuriaillt (Trumpet)
• Edvard Grieg: Serenade for Strings (conducted by Mr. Theuriaillt)
• F.J. Haydn: Trumpet Concerto (Mr. Theuriaillt)
• Aulis Sallinen: Some aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March

Program:

• David Schober: Split Horizon (conducted by Sea Shepherd, student of Chris Kim)
• Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Family Weekend Concerto

Program:

• Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (13 instrument version)

Details:

Joint concert with the Cornell Wind Ensemble and Cornell Jazz Ensemble I.

Program:

• J.S. Bach: Double Violin Concerto, BWV1043 with Susan Waterbury and Rebecca Ansel
• Derek Bermel: Soul Garden (string orchesta version) with Kate Vincent, viola
• Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (13 instrument version)

Kendall Retirement Community

Program:

• Edvard Grieg: Serenade for Strings (conducted by Sean Shepherd, studen of Chris Kim)
• Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring

Program:

• G.F. Handel: Messiah

Program:

• Chris Gendall (Cornell DMA composer): So It Goes
• Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 with Miri Yampolsky, conducted by Xak Bjerken
• Igor Stravinsky: Excerpts from Firebird Suite

Mini-tour to New York City.

Conducting master-class at Copland School of Music, Lefrak Hall, NY

Program:

• Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring

Program:

• Malcolm Bilson: Mozart concerts
• W.A. Mozart: Triple Piano Concerto with students of Malcolm Bilson

Program:

• Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Graeme Bailey, narrator)

Program:

• Eduoard Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor, 1st Movement, Cornell Concerto Competition winner Sarah Rice
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9, Op. 70

Program:

• Kevin Ernste: Panopticon (world premiere)

Featuring world premieres of works by DMA composition students

Program:

• Key Rhie: Ice Ride
• Nobert Palej: Vistula's Lullaby
• Sean Shepherd: Piano Concerto (conducted by composer)
• Spencer Topel: Stations

Program:

• Nicholas Walker: Pop Bass Concerto with Nicholas Walker (bass)
• Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (John Cleese, narrator)

Program:

• Johannes Brahms: Nanie with Cornell Chorus (Scott Tucker, director of Choral activities conducting)
• Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan"

Program:

• W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453 with Frederic Lacroix (CCO)
• W.A. Mozart: Magic Flute Overture (CSO)
• Leonard Berstein: Divertimento for Orchestra (CSO)
• Jean Sibelius: Finlandia (combined forces of CCO and CSO)

Program:

• Astor Piazzolla: Winter and Spring from Seasons with Andrew Eng (violin) (CSO)
• Jean Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela with Anna Herforth (English horn) (CCO)
• W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414 with Sezi Seskir (CCO)

First Family Weekend Concert

Program:

• Jean Sibelius: Finlandia

Collage Concert: Made in America, Celebrating the inauguration of the newly renovated Bailey Hall

Program:

• Leonard Bernstein: Divertimento for Orchestra

Program:

• W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271 with Tatiana Vassilieva
• W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major, K. 456 with Stefania Neonato

St. Anne's Church in Rochester, NY. Culmination of a semester-long project with Malcolm Bilson.

Program:

• W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453 with Frederic Lacroix
• W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414 with Sezi Seskir
• W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K. 217 with Tatiana Vassilieva
• W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major, K. 456 with Stefania Neonato

Program:

• Johannes Brahms: Double Concerto with Stephen Miahky (violin) and John Haines Eitzen (cello)
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1, Op. 10

Tour to Berlin, Germany. concert at Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Grunewald, January 14, 2007.

Program:

• Johannes Brahms: Double Concerto with Stephen Miahky (violin) and John Haines Eitzen (cello)
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1, Op. 10

Program:

• C.P.E. Bach: Double Concerto for harpsichord and forte piano, WQ. 47 with Annette Richards and David Yearsley
• Luciano Berio: Concertino with Richard Faria and Stephen Miahky
• Edward Elgar: Introduction and Allegro with Bryant Park String Quartet
• R.V. Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

Program:

• Jean Sibelius: Violin concerto with Cornell Concerto Competition winner, Charlene Kluegel
• Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Works by Cornell DMA composers.

Program:

• Chris Gendall: Agitato
• Xi Wang: Shattered Dream
• Steven Gorbos: Col Canto for 14 players
• David Weaver: Susurrus for 14 players

Program:

• C.P.E. Bach: Sinfonia in D major (conducted by John Rohwel, student of Chris Kim)
• W.A. Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante with Roberto Diaz (viola) and Gabriela Diaz (violin)
• Béla Bartók: Music of Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

Program:

• Giaochhino Rossini: La Gazza Ladra Overture
• Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G with Xak Bjerken
• L.V. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major

Program:

• Leoš Janáček: Suite for Strings (CCO)
• Osvaldo Golijov: Last Round (CCO)
• Christopher Rouse: Bump from Phantasmata (CSO)
• Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 (CSO)

Details:

Joint concert with the Cornell Chamber Orchestra (CCO).

Program:

• Adam Glaser: March of the Little Goblins (CSO & ISO)
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre (ISO)
• Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain (CSO)
• Hector Berlioz: March to the Scaffold from Symphonie fantastique (ISO)
• John Williams: Duel of the Fates from Star Wars (CSO & ISO)

Details:

Joint concert with the Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra (ISO). Costumes highly encouraged.

A joint production with the Theater Department. Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Program:

• Carlisle Floyd: Slow Dusk

Program:

• J.S. Bach: Double Concerto with Anna Herforth (oboe) and Daniel Kim (violin)
• Steven Stucky: Colburn Variations
• Roberto Sierra: Viola Concerto with Wendy Richman (viola)

Program:

• J.S. Bach: Double Concerto for Two Keyboards, BWV 1060, featuring Mike Lee and Chi-Chen Wu (CCO)
• Paul Leary: Do We See the Trends of Our Time? for Beatboxer and Orchestra, featuring Adam Matta (World Premiere) (CCO)
• Chris Gendall: Holy Rollers, for Turntable and Orchestra, featuring DJ Dubble8 (World Premiere) (CSO)
• Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (CSO)

Details:

Joint concert with the Cornell Chamber Orchestra (CCO).

Program:

• Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 with Jian Liu, violin
• Marc Mellits: Jacob's Ladder from Brick
• George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Symphonic Picture (Robert Russell Bennett) (CUWS)

Details:

Cynthia Johnston Turner guest-conducts this joint concert with the Cornell University Wind Symphony (CUWS).

Composer Website: Marc Mellits.

Program:

• Norbert Palej: Berceuse, 1940
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
• Vasily Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1 in G Minor

Details:

With guest conductor Cynthia Johnston Turner.