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2008-09 Orchestra Concert Season:

Concerts with a "$" indicate that tickets are $9, $7 for senior citizens, and free for students and those under age 18.

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Friday, September 19
College of Music Collage Concert

-8 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center SS

First concert of four in Showcase Series, featuring premiere student ensembles and soloists in a fast-paced musical extravaganza.

Tickets: $25, $20, $15, available from Wharton Center Box Office only, (517) 432-2000, (800) WHARTON.

Tuesday, September 23
Philharmonic Orchestra

-7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $

Kabalevsky ......Pathetique Overture
Weber ............Bassoon Cencerto (soloist to be announced)
Haydn.............Symphony No. 104

Wednesday, September 24
Wynton Marsalis with Symphony Orchestra and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
-7:30 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center
Wynton Marsalis, guest artist

Molly Fillmore, mezzo-soprano

Gerswin ............................Overture to "Let 'Em Eat Cake"
Grieg/Ellington/Strayhorn .....Suite from The Incidental Music to Ibsen's play Peer Gynt
Marsalis ...........................Composition for Jazz Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra (World Premiere)

Tickets: $45, $35, $25, available from Wharton Center Box Office only, (517) 432-2000, (800) WHARTON.

Thursday, October 9

Concert Orchestra
-7:30 p.m. East Lansing High School Center for the Performing Arts, 509 Burcham Dr. East Lansing $

Suppé ......................Overture to Poet and Peasant
Borodin .....................In the Steppes of Central Asia
Sibelius .....................Alla Marcia from Karelia Suite
Faure .......................Pavane from Pelleas et Mélisande
Tchaikovsky/Rydon .....Waltz from Swan Lake

Friday, October 17
High School Strings Invitational Concert
-7:30 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $

Sponsored by MSU College of Music Orchestras

Thursday, October 23
Philharmonic Orchestra
-7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $

Bartók .........Rumanian Folk Dances
Copland .......Four Dances from Rodeo
Beethoven ...Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor (soloist to be announced)

Saturday, October 25
Symphony Orchestra
-8:00 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $
Ralph Votapek, guest artist

Ravel ..........Alboada del gracioso
DeFalla .......Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Bernstein ....Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety

Friday, November 14
Symphony Orchestra
-8:00 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $
Richard Sherman, Jan Eberle, Caroline Hartig, Michael Kroth, Janine Gaboury, Richard Illman, Ava Ordman, Gwendolyn Burgett Thrasher, Jon Weber, guest artists

Prokofiev ..........March and Scherzo from The Love of Three Oranges
Martin .............Concerto got Seven Winds, Percussion, and Strings
Beethoven .......Symphony No. 3 Eroica

Thursday, November 20
Concert Orchestra
-7:30 p.m. St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 955 Alton Rd., East Lansing $

Delibes/Isaac ..........March and Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia
Wagner/Leidig .........Dances of the Apprentices, from Die Meistersinger
Verdi .....................La donna e mobile from Rigoletto
Lucas ....................Tartarian Dances
Beethoven ..............Symphony No. 5 Finale

Friday, November 21, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 22, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 23, 3:00 p.m.
MSU Opera Theatre and Chamber Orchestra
-Fairchild Theatre $$
Raphael Jimenez, conductor
Melanie Helton, stage director

The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart's comic masterpiece with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based upon the French classic play by Beaumarchais. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

A preview lecture will be held 45 minutes before each performance. Reserved seating only.

Tickets: $18, $16 for senior citizens, and $8 for students and those under age 18. Tickets available from Wharton Center Box Office only, (517) 432-2000, (800) WHARTON.

Thursday, December 4
Philharmonic Orchestra
-7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $

Vaughn Williams .........Overture to The Wasps
Marcello ...................Oboe Concerto (soloist to be announced)
Bizet .......................Carmen Suites No. 1 and No. 2

Saturday, December 6
MSU's Home for the Holidays
-8:00 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center

Second concert of four in Showcase Series, featuring Symphony Orchestra, Glee Clubs, and Children's Choir performing classical and traditional holiday works.

Tickets: $25, $20, $15, available from Wharton Center Box Office only, (517) 432-2000, (800) WHARTON.

Thursday, January 22
Symphony Orchestra with Tiempo Libre
-7:30 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center

As the finale of the Tiempo Libre concert, the Symphony Orchestra will join the Grammy-nominated band for a special performance of Rumba Sinfónica, a piece for symphony orchestra and Cuban band recently composed by Venezuelan classical composer and MSU College of Music faculty member Ricardo Lorenz.

Tickets: $28, available from Wharton Center Box Office only, (517) 432-2000, (800) WHARTON.

Saturday, January 31
Symphony Orchestra
-8:00 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $

Beethoven ..........Overture to Egmont
Britten ...............Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Pärt ..................Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Shostakovich ......Symphony No. 9

Thursday, February 5
Philharmonic Orchestra
-7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $

Beethoven ..........Symphony No. 1

Traditional ..........Spirituals
Still ...................The American Scene Suite No. 5

Saturday, February 21
Symphony Orchestra
-8:00 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $
Deborah Moriarty, guest artist

Brahms ..........Academic Festival Overture
Mendelssohn ...Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Debussy .........La Mer
Ravel .............La Valse

Thursday, February 26
Concert Orchestra
-7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $

Mendelssohn ..........Wedding March from Midsummer Night's Dream
Paradis .................Pastel Minuet
Dvorák .................Slavonic Dances
Offenbach ............Overture to La Belle Hélène

Thursday, March 5
Philharmonic Orchestra
-7:30 Fairchild Theatre $

Suppé ..........Poet and Peasant Overture
Wieniawski ....Violin Concerto (soloist to be announced)
Kodály ..........Háry János

Friday, March 27, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 28, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 29, 3:00 p.m.
MSU Opera Theatre and Symphony Orchestra
-Concert Auditorium
Raphael Jimenez, conductor
Melanie Helton, stage director

Two operas for the price of one: Puccini's comic romp Gianni Schicchi, based upon a single line from Dante's Inferno, and the world premiere of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, music by William Withem, libretto by Melanie Helton, based upon Washington Irving's story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.

Tickets: $18, $16 for senior citizens, and $8 for students and those under age 18. Tickets available from Wharton Center Box Office only, (517) 432-2000, (800) WHARTON.

Saturday, April 4
2009 Honors Concert
Symphony Orchestra
-8:00 p.m. East Lansing High School Center for the Performing Arts, 509 Burcham Dr., East Lansing $

Annual program features, as soloists, competition winners selected by nationally recognized judges. Being selected for this honor is the highest performance achievement for College of Music students. (Program and soloists to be announced).

Thursday, April 23
Philharmonic Orchestra
-7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $

Mozart ..........Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio
Tchaikovsky ...Rococo Variations (soloist to be announced)
Dvorák ..........Symphony No. 8

Saturday, April 25
Symphony Orchestra, University Chorale, State Singers, and Choral Union
-8:00 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $
Melanie Helton, soprano; Kurt Ollmann, baritone, guest artists

Vaughan Williams ..........Dona Nobis Pacem, a cantata for soprano, baritone, chorus, and 
                                 orchestra,

                                 David Rayl, guest conductor
Hutcheson ..................The Silver Sword, an ancient fairy tale for chorus and orchestra

                                 (world premiere)
Wagner ......................The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre

Thursday, April 30
Concert Orchestra
-7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre

Tchaikovsky .........Mazurka from Swan Lake
Borodin ...............Symphony No. 2, Movement I
Grieg ..................Suite from the Incidental Music to Ibsen's play Peer Gynt
Wagner ...............Grand March from Tannhauser