SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
2019/2020
Bravissimo
October 11, 2019
Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
Dearborn, MI
Star Spangeled Banner
Berlioz - Roman Carnival
Boyer - New Beginnings
Brahms - Hungarian Dances 5 & 6
Strauss - Pizzicato Polka
Bizet - Farandole
- INTERMISSION -
Rodgers/Bennett arr. Robert Russell - The Sound of Music, A Symphonic Picture
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 Mvt 1
Williams - Throne Room and Finale from Star Wars
Strauss - Peasant Polka
A Tribute to Arthur Fiedler
October 15-19, 2019
Holley Hall
Sarasota, FL
Nicolai - Overture to Merry Wives of Windsor
Alford - Colonel Bogey March
Anderson - Syncopated Clock
Beethoven - Allegretto scherzando [II] from Symphony No. 8 in F Major
Sousa - Semper fidelis March
Weber - Andante and Rondo Ungarese, Op. 35
Handy/Hayman - Saint Louis Blues March
- INTERMISISON -
Rodgers/Bennett - The Sound of Music: Selection for Orchestra
Simon/Holcombe - Bridge over Troubled Water
Gold/Holcombe - Main Theme from Exodus
Rota/Kusik/Holcombe - Main Theme from The Godfather
Williams - Shark Theme from Jaws
Sherman/Lowden - A Disney Super Time (Mary Poppins)
Willson/Anderson - Seventy-Six Trombones from The Music Man
Sousa - Stars and Stripes Forever
Halloween Spooktacular
October 27, 2019
Valentine Theatre
Toledo, OH
Glaser – March of the Little Goblins
Goulet – Metamorphosis of the Werewolf, from On Halloween Night
Dukas – Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Wendel – Ride of the Headless Horseman
Mosolov – The Foundry
Fucik – March of the Gladiators
Williams – Cantina Band
Williams – The Rebellion is Reborn
Picketts/Bachman – Monster Mash
Music in the Middle: American Masters
November 13, 2019
Hill Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI
Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
Tim Hinck - Fanfare for Rosa: A New Citizen
Florence Price - Symphony in E Minor, iv. Finale: Presto
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 “Largo” (New World Symphony)
Wang Jie - Symphonic Overture on “America, the Beautiful”
Prokofiev - Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26 i. Andante-Allegro
(ft. Competition Winner: Shuheng Zhang)
Bernstein - West Side Story Selections
American Masters
November 22, 2019
Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
Dearborn, MI
Bernstein - West Side Story Overture
Walker - Lyric for Strings
Copland - Old American Songs
- Jonathan Lasch, Baritone
- Intermission -
Inside the Music - Gershwin’s American in Paris
Gershwin - An American in Paris
Holiday Pops Concert
December 13, 2019
Hill Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI
Stephenson - Holiday Overture
Vaughn Williams - Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite No. 1 Excerpts: “Russian Dance”, “Chinese Dance”, and “Waltz of the Flowers”
Ames – Gloria Fanfare
Helvey - Love Came Down at Christmas
Vivaldi– “Gloria” and “Domine Fili unigenite” from Gloria
Willcocks - Ding Dong Merrily on High
Rutter - Donkey Carol
Holcombe - Festive Sounds of Hanukkah
Anderson – Sleigh Ride
Ellington – The Nutcracker Suite (Jazz Version)
Lopez – Selections from Frozen
Williams - Let there be peace on earth
Holiday Pops Concert
December 21, 2019
Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts
Amarillo, TX
Highlights Include:
Dragon - Deck the Halls
Dragon - Hark the Herald Angel's Sing
Anderson - Christmas Festival Overture
Silvestri - Polar Express
Anderson - Sleigh Ride
Tiomkin - Theme from It’s a Wonderful Life
Berlin - White Christmas
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Gruber/Wilberg - Silent Night
Wyle/Pretchel - It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
For the Love of Beethoven
February 14, 2020
Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
Dearborn, MI
Beethoven - Egmont Overture
Haydn - Symphony No. 103 “Drum Roll”
Beethoven - Romance No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra
- Intermission -
Beethoven - Symphony 5, Mvt. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Mvt. 2
Tchaikovsky - March Slave - Side by Side with Youth Orchestra
Brundibár
A Children's Opera
February 20, 2020
Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH
- The Toledo Symphony is proud to partner with the Toledo School for the Arts to produce a semi-staged version of the children’s opera: Brundibár. Originally performed by children in the Terezin concentration camp in occupied Czechoslovakia, this work has stood the test of time.
Family Concert: A Pirates Love For Me
March 8, 2020
Veterans Memorial Civic Center
Lima, OH
Korngold - Overture to "Captain Blood"
Smetna -The Moldau from Ma Vlast
Korngold - Overture to "The Sea Hawk"
Rossini - Storm Scene from William Tell Overture
Handel - Water Music - Hornpipe (written during height of piracy 1717)
Vaughan Williams - Sea Songs March
Gliere -The Red Poppy Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance
Pirates of the Caribbean
Debussy - La Mer - Mvt. 3
Stage & Screen
April 3, 2020
Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
Dearborn, MI
Rogers/arr. Bennett - Sound of Music
Sherman/arr, Lowden - Mary Poppins
Addinsell - Concerto
Rachmaninoff - in Time
Concerto for Index Finger
Bernstein - America
- Intermission -
Brooks - Producers Medley
Willson/arr. Anderson - Severnty Six Trombone from The Music Man
Joplin - Sting (Solace and Entertainer)
Joel - Rootbeer Rag
Debussy - Clair de lune
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Fairy Tales & Friends!
MAY 8, 2020
Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
Dearborn, MI
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Student Concerto Winner
-Intermission-
Elgar: Enigma Variations