| Musical Pas de Deux |
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Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 8 pm
Lincoln Theater, University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, Connecticut
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Copland: Our Town
Piston: The Incredible Flutist
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
with Michelle Abraham |
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| Beethoven's great concerto is paired with Copland's film score and a ballet written for the Boston Pops Orchestra. |
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| Side by Side by FVSO |
Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 8 pm
Lincoln Theater, University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, Connecticut
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Wagner: Prelude: Die Meistersinger
Young: Tempered Steel
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Schumann: Piano Concerto, first movement
with Connie Zhou, piano
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
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| The FVSO is joined by students from Farmington High School for three works on this program of music from the Romantic period, including a high-octane work for band. |
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| Economy and Introspection |
Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 8 pm
Avon Old Farms School
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Mozart: Overture: La Clemenza di Tito
Elgar: Cello Concerto
with Julie Ribchinsky
Brahms: Serenade No. 2 |
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| A late work by Elgar suggests finality while Brahms' early Serenade prepares us for the loving sonorities of his symphonies. |
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| The Russians are Coming |
Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 8 pm
Lincoln Theater, University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, Connecticut
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
with Rachel Field
Borodin: Symphony No. 2 |
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| A chemist's popular second symphony follows a concerto withheld from the public by an anxious composer until after the death of Stalin. |
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| Lyric Romanticism |
Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 8 pm
Lincoln Theater, University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, Connecticut
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Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Barber: Knoxville, Summer 1915
with Julie Poole
Hanson: Symphony No. 2 (Romantic) |
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| Samuel Barber's setting of James Agee's poem describes summer evenings in Tennessee. We also perform one of this country's most beloved symphonies. |
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| Americana! |
Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 6:30 pm
On the lawn at Miss
Porter's School
60 Main Street
Farmington, Connecticut
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Copland: Outdoor Overture
Ives: Country Band March
Bernstein: Candide Overture
Gershwin: Suite from Porgy and Bess
Anderson: The Typewriter, The Syncopated Clock and Home Stretch
Sousa: Manhattan Beach and U. S. Field Artillery Marches
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| Our popular outdoor concert presents the music of six of our country's greatest composers with music from Porgy and Bess at its center. |
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