2008 - 2009 Season
Come spend six delightful evenings with one remarkable orchestra.
Let the music take you to other times and other places.
Come see...
Revel in the streets of Rome during carnival time...
All concerts begin at 8:00 pm at Wichita Falls Memorial Auditorium,
1300 Seventh Street.
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October 4, 2008 All Orchestral sponsored by: Lunn's Colonial Funeral Home |
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| Le carnaval romain (Roman Carnival) Suite algerienne, Op. 60 Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (Pathetique) |
Berlioz Saint-Saens Tchaikovsky |
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Laugh and dance as Berlioz's music leads you to the excitement of a carnival in the streets of Rome, people enjoying themselves, singing and playing. Then Saint-Saens' undulating melody carries you across the sea, entering the harbor of the exotic, enchanting land of Algeria. End the evening with the passion of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, where he shares his very soul with the audience. Add merriment to the evening by attending the Encore diner at Salt & Pepper Restaurant before the concert. Make a date for a mystical Mediterranean evening. |
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November 8, 2008 Chu-Fang Huang, piano sponsored by: Air Tractor, Inc. |
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| American Festival Overture Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60 Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 16 |
Schuman Beethoven Grieg |
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Recall youthful days of play with Schuman's jovial sounds of a "very festive occasion" in his spirited Overture. In the same whimsical mood, we glimpse a calm and content Beethoven in his Fourth Symphony. Filled with musical jokes aimed at musical insiders as well as the rest of us, he reveals a rare, happy period of his life. Grieg's music quickly finds its way into our hearts pianist Chu-Fang Huang captures the warmth and passion of his only piano concerto. |
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December 13, 2008 "A Family-Style Christmas" W.F.I.S.D. Combined High School Choirs and featuring the Wichita Falls Youth Symphony sponsored by: United Supermarkets |
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Twinkling lights on the tree, a log on the fire, and carolers outside singing in the snow. There’s no better time of year than Christmas – everyone is joyful. Share this joyous time as family and friends gather with our musical family to bring the spirit of Christmas to your heart. |
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February 14, 2009 Mela Dailey, Soprano Corey Bix, Tenor sponsored by: Dr. & Mrs. Danny Bartel |
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St. Valentine's life is reminiscent of a tragic opera. Secretly marrying young lovers in defiance of Roman Emperor Claudius, Valentine was jailed. Among dire surroundings, Valentine fell in love with his jailer's blind daughter. Legend states that his love for her and his great faith maraculously cured her blindness...truly an example of the power of love. Facing execution, "From your Valentine," is all he wrote in a farewell message to his beloved, forever coining the phrase as a term of endearment. |
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March 28, 2009 Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet sponsored by: Kay & Frank Yeager |
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| Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra Les Preludes (Symphonic Poem No. 3) Concerto No. 1 Lincoln Portrait narrated by Jim Hoggard |
Faure Debussy Liszt Weber Copland |
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"What is Life but a series of Preludes to that unknown hymn" Liszt wrote of his own symphonic poem "Les Preludes". Thus sets the tone of the evening's music through glimpses of life--the amusements of the idle rich at the masques or fetes galantes in the elegant townhouses of Paris, the anziety of graduation recitals for clarinet students at the Conservatoire, and the turmoil of a nation embroiled in war as witnessed by Abraham Lincoln --the man and the President. |
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April 25, 2009 Sponsored in part by Wells Fargo Bank |
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| As the sun sets in Bluegrass country, the air is filled with the sounds of fiddles, guitars, and banjoes. In the cool evening air, families sit on their front porches singing songs of lost love, lost dreams, bad times, and religion. Inspired by the ballads of the Scots-Irish immigrants to the Appalachian area, families would sing their tunes and improvise instrumental parts on whatever might be handy, and thus, American roots music --Bluegrass -- was born. It was into this setting that Ricky Skaggs was born. By age 6, playing a mandolin given to him by his father, he performed on stage with Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music. And the rest, as they say, is history. | ||