Concert
SCHEDULE
2016-2017 Season
POPS Concert:
Sunday, September 4, 2016
6:00 PM
East Campus Quad
A variety of classic American pop tunes along with popular movie soundtracks arranged for a symphony orchestra
Concert I :
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
8:00 PM
Baldwin Auditorium
A Fall Season of Musical Shakespeare
(in celebration of the greatest writer’s inspiration in the realm of music during the year of the 400th anniversary of his death)
“Berlioz and the Bard”
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NICOLAI: Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor (1847)
BERLIOZ: La Mort de Cléopâtre, (1829)
Coraine Tate, soprano
BERLIOZ: “Je vais le voir,” from Béatrice et Bénédict (1862)
Caroline Bergan, soprano
BERLIOZ: Roméo et Julliett (symphonie dramatique), Op. 17
Featuring members of the Antic Shakespeare Company, directed by Jay O’Berski
Concert II :
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
8:00 PM
Baldwin Auditorium
A Fall Season of Musical Shakespeare
(in celebration of the greatest writer’s inspiration in the realm of music during the year of the 400th anniversary of his death)
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HAYDN: Symphony No. 92 in G Major, “Oxford” (1789)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music, for sixteen soloists and orchestra
Words by Shakespeare from The Merchant of Venice assembled and directed by David Heid
Music by William Walton (1902 – 1983) from his scores for Lawrence Olivier’s Shakespeare films:
WALTON: Two Pieces for Strings from Henry V (1944)
WALTON: Funeral March from Hamlet (1948)
WALTON: A Shakespeare Suite from Richard III (1955)
WALTON: Prelude from Richard III
Featuring members of the Antic Shakespeare Company, directed by Jay O’Berski
Concert III :
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
8:00 PM
Baldwin Auditorium
ROSSINI: Overture to La Gazza Ladra (1817)
COPLAND: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra, with Harp and Piano (1948)
Jimmy Gilmore, clarinet
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, “Italian” (1833)
Concert IV :
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
8:00 PM
Baldwin Auditorium
Shakespearean Transformations
"Senior Night"
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PURCELL: “The Gordian Knot Untied,” Suite for Strings (1691)
BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” (1960)
GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 (1868)
I. Allegro molto moderato
Ian Levitan, piano; 2016-17 Duke Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition winner