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2015-2016
Season

Arizona Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Cockrell, conductor

   

September 24 Thursdayat 7:30
   Crowder Hall

UA Weekend for Strings

  • Mendelssohn:  Violin Concerto in E minor featuring soloist Vijay Gupta of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
  • Brahms:  Symphony No. 1 in C minor

October 17 at 7:30
   Crowder Hall

Music + Festival:  UA Large Ensembles

Program to include

  • John Adams:  The Wound Dresser, Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone
  • Bernstein:  Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • Bernstein:"Tonight" Quintet from West Side Story

November 12-14

  at 7:30
Nov. 15, 3:00 
   Crowder Hall

UA Opera Theatre:  TBA

  • Gilbert & Sullivan:  The Mikado

Welcoming UA's new director of Opera Theatre, Beth Greenberg

Feb 6 at 7:30 and Feb 7 at 3:00

  Crowder Hall

President's Concert
Featuring student competition winners and graduate conductors

  • Arditi: Il bacio
  • Spohr:  Clarinet Concerto No 4, mvt. 1
  • Prokofiev:  Piano Concerto No. 2, mvts. 1-2
  • Brahms:  Violin Concerto, mvt. 1
  • Debussy:  Ibéria

Saturday March 5 at 7:30
   Crowder Hall

Shakespeare First Folio Celebration

Music inspired by the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating the exhibition on the UA campus of an original First Folio from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. Program to include

  • Korngold:  Much Ado About Nothing Suite
  • Prokofiev:  Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
  • Gounod and Verdi:  Arias from the operas Roméo et Juliette, Macbeth, Falstaff and Otello

April 7-9 at 7:30
April 10 at 3:00
   Crowder Hall

UA Opera Theatre

  • Donizetti:  L'elisir d'amore

Wednesday May 4 at 7:30
    Crowder Hall

 

Shared concert with UA Philharmonic, Arizona Choir and UA Symphonic Choir

  • Program to include Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem, Bruce Chamberlain, conductor

 
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