Western Piedmont Symphony

2008-2009

44th Season Schedule

John Gordon Ross

Conductor

John Gordon Ross,  Music Director and Conductor

F Christopher  Brown, Executive Director

John Peragine, Personnel Manager

Masterworks Concerts

Concerts at held in the Sanctuary of First Baptist Church-Hickory at 8 p.m.

unless otherwise indicated

Friday, October 3, 2008—Ashe County Civic Center at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 4, 2008—J.E. Broyhill Center, Lenoir, NC at 8 p.m. 

 “Autumn Colors”  Dmitri Berlinsky, Violin

Beethoven—Overture to Egmont (9’)

Sibelius—Violin Concerto in D (31’)

Scearce—Postcards (10’)

Mussorgsky-Ravel—Pictures at an Exhibition (35’)

Saturday, November 8, 2008—“Freedom Road!” Ridgeview Festival Concert:  Kishna Davis, Soprano soloist

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor—The Bamboula, Op. 75 (9’)

William Grant Still—Summerland  (3’)

Nkeiru Okoye—Songs of Harriet Tubman

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson—Mop, Mop (8’)

Ulysses Kay—Southern Harmony (20’)

Saturday, February 7, 2009—“Unity” Edmund Barton Bullock, Piano

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor—“Danse Negré” from African Suite(6’)

Edmund Barton Bullock—Appalachian Concerto  (35’)

Ludwig van Beethoven—Symphony #7 in A Major, Op. 92   36’

Saturday, March 7, 2009  “Bang  On”--Percussion Section of the Western Piedmont Symphony

Rossini—Overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) (10’)

Kaminsky—Terra terribilis  (c. 25’)

Tchaikovsky—Symphony #5 in e minor, Op. 64  (50’)

Saturday, April 4, 2009—Frederick Moyer, Piano   “Northern Lights”

Witold Lutoslawski—Mala Suite (Little Suite)  11’ 

Sergei Rachmaninoff—Piano Concerto #2 in C minor, Op. 18    (33’)

Einojuhani Rautavaara—Symphony #7 (Angel of Light)  (38’)