The 49th Season

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Concert I - Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 8 p.m.

Concert II - Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 3 p.m.

Special Concert - Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 8 p.m.

Concert III - Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 8 p.m.

Concert IV - Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 8 p.m.

CONCERT I - SEASON’S OPENING CONCERT: Symphonic Selections

Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 8 p.m.

Guest Artist: Soo Bae, cello (Winner of Concert Artists Guild)

Smetana: Vltava (The Moldau) from Ma Vlast (My Country)
*3222-4231 - timp+3-harp-strings (12’)

Grieg: Incidental Music to Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op. 56
*2222-4331-timp+3-harp-strings (18’)

Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
*2222-3231-timp+1-strings (40’)

No rehearsal Thursday, November 19, or Thursday, November 26 (Thanksgiving)

Winter Orchestral Reading Sessions

HOLIDAY BREAK December 17 to January 14

CONCERT II - FAMILY CONCERT - SPECTACULAR SOUNDS

Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 3 p.m.

Guest Artists: Award winning music students from Plainview Old-Bethpage JFK High School
Elizabeth Oh, piano and selected woodwinds and brass students

Dvorak: Carnival Overture
2+1, 2+1, 22-4231 - timp (harp) (10’)

Chabrier: Espana
2+1, 222-4331 - timp/perc (harp) (7’)

Chopin: Piano Concerto (1st movement) - Elizabeth Oh, piano
2222-4210 (15’)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Tsar Saltan Suite (with narrator TBA)
2+1, 2+1, 3 2+1 - 4331 - timp/perc (harp) (17’)

Holst: Jupiter from The Planets
2+2, 3+1, 3+1, 3+1 - 6431 - 2 timp/perc (2 harps) (13’)

SPECIAL COLLABORATION

Saturday, April 17, 2010 - North Shore High School Auditorium at 8 p.m.
North Shore Symphony Orchestra - Susan Deaver, conductor
& North Shore Community Chorus- Stephen Goldstein, conductor

Beethoven: Egmont Overture
*2222-4200-timp-strings (9’)

Brahms: Haydn Variations (17’)
*322*3-4200 - timp +1 - strings

Haydn: Missa In Tempore Belli - Paukenmesse - (Mass in Time of War) (45’)
orchestrated for 1 flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoon - 2 horns, 2 trumpets and timpani
Chorus with solo SATB

CONCERT III - VIOLA EXTRAVAGANZA!

Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 8 p.m.

Please note that rehearsals and repertoire for the Special Collaboration with North Shore Community Chorus will be combined into our rehearsals towards the May 8th

Brahms: Haydn Variations (17’)
*322*3-4200 - timp +1 - strings

Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16 (29’)
Featuring the NSSO viola section with additional guest violists
*3222-2000-strings (without violins)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major
2222-2200-timp (37’)

CONCERT IV - HORIZONS CONCERT - Looking towards NSSO’s 50th Anniversary Season

Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 8 p.m.

Guest Artist: Anton Polezhayev, violin - NSSO Artist in Residence 2009-2010

Strauss: Fledermaus Overture (9’)
*2222-4230-timp+2-strings (9’)

Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21
3*222-4230-timp+2 harps-strings (33’)

Turina: La Procession del Rocio
3*3*3*3*-4331-timp+4-harp-strings (9’)

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49
3*3*22-4431-timp+5-strings (16’)

*Rehearsal/Concert Schedule, Repertoire and Soloists subject to change