Past Seasons' Program Notes

42nd Concert Season

Spring 2009 Program Notes:
Beethoven • Overture to the Creatures of Prometheus
Prokofiev • Concerto for Piano, No. 1
Dvorak • Symphony No. 7

Winter 2009 Program Notes:
- ALL PROGRAM NOTES -
Kabalevsky • Overture to Colas Bruegnon
Delibes Dances from Coppelia
Copland Lincoln Portrait
Faure Suite from Pelleas et Melisande
Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Fall 2008 Program Notes:
Overture to Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna • Franz von Suppé
Concertino for Trombone • Ferdinand David
Symphony No. 4 • Anton Bruckner


41st Concert Season

Spring 2008 Program Notes:
Symphonie Espagnole . Edouard Lalo
Scheherazade . Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Winter 2008 Program Notes:
Coming Soon!

Fall 2007 Program Notes:
Coming Soon!


40th Concert Season

Spring 2007 Program Notes:
not available

Winter 2007 Program Notes:
not available

Fall 2006 Program Notes:
First Essay for Orchestra, Op. 12 . Samuel Barber
Lieutenant Kije Suite, Op. 60 . Sergei Prokofiev
Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 . Hector Berlioz


39th Concert Season
Spring 2006 Program Notes:
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor . Otto Nicolai
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 . Edvard Grieg
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 ("Romantic") . Howard Hanson

Winter 2006 Program Notes:
Overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) . Giocchino Rossini
Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) Opus 24 . Richard Strauss
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Opus 92 . Ludwig van Beethoven

Fall 2005 Program Notes:
The Fanfare for the Common Man . Aaron Copland
Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, Nos. 1, 3 and 8 . Antonin Dvorak
Concerto for Cello . Camille Saint-Saëns


38th Concert Season
Spring 2005 Program Notes:
The Moldau (Vlatava) • Bedrich Smetana
Centenary! • John Cheetham


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Upcoming Performances:

Music in Public Places
March 14, 2010 at 4:00pm
Wille Hall - l
ocated in the COCC Campus Center