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Cornell Symphony Orchestra

Past Concerts

Fall 2004

October 3

Cornell Chamber 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
October 17

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

Program:
  • Beethoven: Overture to Coriolan
  • Jennifer Higdon: Blue Cathedral
  • Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor
October 23

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

Family Weekend Concert

Program:
  • Beethoven: Overture to Coriolan
  • Jennifer Higdon: Blue Cathedral
  • Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor
November 14

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

Program:
  • Igor Stavinsky: Pulcinella Suite
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater with Judith Kellock and Milagro Vargas
December 12

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

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)

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Spring 2005

February 26

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

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
March 5

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

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)

March 10

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

Program:
  • Terry Riley: In C
April 9

Cornell Festival Chamber Orchestra

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
April 10

Improvisation concert with members of CSO, CCO, CUWE

Program:
  • John Cage: Child of Tree
  • John Cage: Radio Music
  • John Cage: Music for Amplified Toy Pianos
April 28

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

Program:
  • Liduino Pitombeira: Cello Concerto with Dennis Parker
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a
May 5

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

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)

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Fall 2005

October 2

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

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
October 16

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

Program:
  • David Schober: Split Horizon (conducted by Sea Shepherd, student of Chris Kim)
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
October 29

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

Family Weekend Concerto

Program:
  • Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (13 instrument version)
Details:

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

November 13

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

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)
December 4

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

Kendall Retirement Community

Program:
  • Edvard Grieg: Serenade for Strings (conducted by Sean Shepherd, studen of Chris Kim)
  • Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
December 10

Risley Residential College Messiah Orchestra

Program:
  • G.F. Handel: Messiah
December 11

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

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

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Spring 2006

January 27-29

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

Mini-tour to New York City.

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

Program:
  • Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
February 12 & 13

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

Program:
  • Malcolm Bilson: Mozart concerts
  • W.A. Mozart: Triple Piano Concerto with students of Malcolm Bilson
March 5

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

Program:
  • Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Graeme Bailey, narrator)
March 11

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

Program:
  • Eduoard Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor, 1st Movement, Cornell Concerto Competition winner Sarah Rice
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9, Op. 70
March 12

Improvisation concert with members of CSO

Program:
  • Kevin Ernste: Panopticon (world premiere)
April 8

Festival Chamber Orchestra Concert

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
April 15

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

Program:
  • Nicholas Walker: Pop Bass Concerto with Nicholas Walker (bass)
  • Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (John Cleese, narrator)
May 7

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

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

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Fall 2006

October 1

Cornell Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Orchestra

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)
October 19

Cornell Chamber Orchestra & members of Symphony Orchestra

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)
October 21

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

First Family Weekend Concert

Program:
  • Jean Sibelius: Finlandia
October 26

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

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

Program:
  • Leonard Bernstein: Divertimento for Orchestra
November 11

Cornell Chamber 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
December 1

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

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
December 3

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

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

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Spring 2007

January 9-16

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

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
February 25

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

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
March 4

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

Program:
  • Jean Sibelius: Violin concerto with Cornell Concerto Competition winner, Charlene Kluegel
  • Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
April 14

Festival Chamber Orchestra

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
April 22

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

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
April 29

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

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

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Fall 2007

September 30

Opening Concert of the 2007-2008 Season

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).

October 31

A Night of Fright at the Symphony

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.

November 9-11

Chris Kim, John Rohwel, and Dorian Bandy

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

Program:
  • Carlisle Floyd: Slow Dusk
November 11

Cornell Chamber Orchestra

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)
December 2

Winter Concert

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).

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Spring 2008

March 9

Concerto Competition Winner Performance

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.

May 3

Final Concert of the 2007-2008 Season

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.

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