2009/2010 Concerts: John Larry Granger, Music Director/Conductor
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OCTOBER 3/4
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JANUARY 30/31
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MARCH 27/28
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MAY 27/28
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MARCH 6/7
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OLD WORLD - NEW WORLD
SIBELIUS
Finlandia
GRIEG
Piano Concerto
Anton Nel , Pianist
DVORAK
Symphony No. 9 "New World"
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BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 1
Jon Nakamatsu, Pianist
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ROMANTIC RHAPSODIES
BARBER
Adagio for Strings
TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto
Tessa Lark, Violinist
MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 3
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THE RITES OF PASSION
ORFF
Carmina Burana
The Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus Cheryl Anderson, Choral Director
Soloists TBA
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HERE COMES THE CIRCUS
FUCIK
Entrance of the Gladiators
STRAVINSKY
Fair from Petrushka
COPLAND
Hoe-Down from Rodeo
AND MORE!
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Anton Nel, pianist
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Jon Nakamatsu
pianist
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Tessa Lark
violinist
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Cheryl Anderson
Choral Director
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Concert Sponsors:
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Concert Sponsors:
Rowland & Pat Rebele
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Concert Sponsors:
Rowland & Pat Rebele
Todd & Corinne Wipke
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Concert Sponsors:
Rowland & Pat Rebele
Chorus Sponsor:
Joan Osborne
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Youth & Family Sponsors:
Rowland & Pat Rebele
Lee & Emily Duffus
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Saturday, October 3, 8 pm Santa Cruz Civic
Sunday, October 4, 2 pm Mello Center, Watsonville |
Music is often reflected in the culture of the people from where it comes. Ideals of freedom of expression and Romantic passion are explored in the music of Scandinavian composers, Jean Sibelius and Edvard Grieg. We are pleased to welcome Anton Nel back to Santa Cruz to play Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Antonin Dvorak came to this country in 1892 to found an “American school of composition.” He brought to his “New World Symphony” a merger of the melodies of slaves and Native Americans mixed with his own personal longing for his Czech homeland.
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Saturday, January 30 , 8 pm Santa Cruz Civic
Sunday, January 31 , 2 pm Mello Center, Watsonville |
No two composers reflect the heart and soul of symphonic music more than Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. With his own stamp of dramatic human energy, Beethoven from the first movement moves us with carefree abandon from the restraints of the Classical era to the delights of newly found Romanticism. Brahms expands Beethoven’s harmonic and rhythmic language in his profound First Piano Concerto, performed for us by Van Cliburn winner, Jon Nakamatsu.
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Saturday, March 27, 8 pm Santa Cruz Civic
Sunday, March 28, 2 pm Mello Center, Watsonville |
2010 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great American composer, Samuel Barber. We feature our string section in his moving “Adagio for Strings.” The emotionalism continues with Klein composition winner, Tessa Lark, in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. The concert concludes with Mendelssohn’s melodious Third Symphony, “Scottish.”
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Saturday, May 8 , 8 pm Santa Cruz Civic
Sunday, May 9 , 2 pm Mello Center, Watsonville |
Spring is here and it’s time for loving and living expressed in the unique writing of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” Comprised of texts from Medieval Latin poems, German high verse, and French love, drinking and gaming songs, the work continues to delight capacity audiences around the world. We happily welcome our three soloists, the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus and Youth Choir to the stage to realize this exhilarating masterpiece.
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Saturday, March 6 , 2 pm Mello Center, Watsonville
Sunday, March 7 , 2 pm Santa Cruz Civic |
The symphony orchestra has many well-trained acts, just like a circus!! Come and explore the different instrumental sections of the Santa Cruz County Symphoy with special guests the Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony and members of the Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre as they demonstrate the many thrills that music can make.
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