Welcome to the NEW Season be sure to book your tickets well in advance

John Gordon Ross,  Music Director and Conductor

F Christopher  Brown, Executive Director

John Peragine, Personnel Manager

Auditions

                  Thursday,   September 11,  2008       Strings                             5:00-10:15 p.m.     WPS Rehearsal Hall

                  Friday,        September 12,  2008       Brass/Woodwind            5:00-10:15 p.m.     WPS Rehearsal Hall

                  Saturday,    September 13,  2008      Sub-List & Call-backs      1:00-5:00 p.m.       WPS Rehearsal Hall

Masterworks Concerts

MW # 1

    3(1)-3(1)-3(b.cl)-3(1) / 4-3-3-1 / alto sax / timp+5 / 2 hp / celeste  / strings

Beethoven .................................................. Overture to Egmont

Sibelius ................................................... Violin Concerto in D

Dmitri Berlinsky, Violin

Mussorgsky-Ravel ................................ Pictures at an Exhibition

              Mon.,   Sept. 22, 2008     Full Orchestra        7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Thurs.,  Sept.25, 2008      String Sectional     7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Mon.,   Sept. 29, 2008     Full Orchestra        7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Thurs., Oct.    2, 2008      Dress Rehearsal 1  7:30-10 p.m.      Broyhill Civic Ctr Aud., Lenoir

              Fri.,     Oct.    3, 2008      Sound Check            6:30 p.m.          Ashe County Civic  Center

              Fri.,     Oct.    3, 2008      Concert                      7:30 p.m.          Ashe County Civic  Center

              Sat.,     Oct.    4, 2008     Dress Rehearsal 2     2:30-5 p.m.      Broyhill Civic Ctr Aud., Lenoir

              Sat.,     Oct.    4, 2008     Concert                       8:00 p.m.         Broyhill Civic Ctr Aud., Lenoir

MW # 2

3(2)-3(1)-3(bcl)-3(1) / 4-3-3-1 / timp+3 / harp / piano / strings

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ............................... The Bamboula, Op. 75

William Grant Still ..................................................... Summerland

Nkeiru Okoye .......................................... Songs of Harriet Tubman

Kishna Davis, Soprano

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson ............................................ Mop, Mop

Ulysses Kay ..................................................... Southern Harmony

              Mon.,  Oct. 27, 2008        Full Orchestra        7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Thurs., Oct. 30, 2008       String Sectional     7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Mon.,  Nov.  3, 2008        Full Orchestra        7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Thurs., Nov.  6, 2008       Dress Rehearsal 1             7:30-10 p.m.      FirstBaptistChurch

              Sat.,    Nov.  8, 2008       Dress Rehearsal 2             2:30-5 p.m.       FBC

              Sat.,    Nov.  8, 2008       Concert                   8:00 p.m.          FBC

MW # 3

2+1-2-2-2 / 4-2-3-1 / timp+3 / strings

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, “Danse Negré” from African Suite

Edmund Barton Bullock .................................. Appalachian Concerto

Edmund Barton Bullock, Piano

Ludwig van Beethoven ................... Symphony #7 in A Major, Op. 92

              Mon.,  Jan. 26, 2009        Full Orchestra        7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Thurs., Jan. 29, 2009       String Sectional     7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Mon.,  Feb.  2, 2009        Full Orchestra        7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Thurs., Feb.  5, 2009        Dress Rehearsal 1             7:30-10 p.m.     FBC, Hickory

              Fri.,     Feb.  8, 2009        Concert                   8:00 p.m.          Performance Place, Newton (Tentative)

              Sat.,    Feb.  7, 2009        Dress Rehearsal 2             2:30-5 p.m.      FBC, Hickory

              Sat.,    Feb.  7, 2009        Concert                   8:00 p.m.          FBC, Hickory

MW #4

2+1-2-2-2 / 4-2-2-1 / timp+3 / strings  (Kaminsky work has extensive perc. Solos)

Rossini ................ Overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)

Kaminsky ............................................................... Terra terribilis

Tchaikovsky .................................... Symphony #5 in e minor, Op. 64

              Mon.,  Feb.  23, 2009      Full Orchestra        7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Thurs., Feb.  26, 2009      String Sectional     7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Mon.,  Mar.   2, 2009       Full Orchestra        7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Thurs., Mar.   5, 2009       Dress Rehearsal 1             7:30-10 p.m.      FirstBaptistChurch

              Sat.,    Mar.   7, 2009       Dress Rehearsal 2             2:30-5:30 p.m.   FBC

              Sat.,    Mar.   7, 2009       Concert                   8:00 p.m.          FBC

MW #5

2-2-2-2 / 4-3-3-1 / timp+2 / strings 

(Perc. On Rautavaara susp cym, snare dr., xylo, marimba, vibes, glock, 4 tom-toms, 3 tam-tams)

Witold Lutoslawski .................................... Mala Suite (Little Suite)

Sergei Rachmaninoff ............... Piano Concerto #2 in C minor, Op. 18

Frederick Moyer, Piano

Einojuhani Rautavaara ........................ Symphony #7 (Angel of Light)

              Mon.,  March 23, 2009     Full Orchestra        7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Thurs., March 26, 2009     String Sectional     7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Mon.,  March 30, 2009     Full Orchestra        7:30-10 p.m.      WPS RR

              Thurs., April    2, 2009      Dress Rehearsal 1             7:30-10 p.m.      FirstBaptistChurch

              Sat.,    April    4, 2009      Dress Rehearsal 2             2:30-5 p.m.       FBC

              Sat.,    April    4, 2009      Concert                   8:00 p.m.          FBC