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Carmina Burana
Saturday, September 20, 2008, 8:00pm
Sunday, September 21, 2008, 2:30pm
Opening Weekend

Lawrence Leighton Smith , Conductor
Colorado Springs Chorale
Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale
Judeth Shay Burns, Soprano
Brian Patrick Leatherman, Tenor
Peter Tuff, Baritone

Liszt: Les Préludes
Orff: Carmina Burana

CARMINA! Scandalously sensational, vibrantly exhilarating, so many people, so many textures, and so much variety

The Charm of the Cello
Saturday, October 25, 2008, 8:00pm
Sunday, October 26, 2008, 2:30pm

Lawrence Leighton Smith , Conductor
Daniel Lee, Cello

R. Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
Barber: Symphony No. 1
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Enescu: Roumanian Rhapsody

Cellist Daniel Lee performs the hauntingly beautiful Elgar Cello Concerto

The Magic of Mozart
Saturday, November 15, 2008, 8:00pm
Sunday, November 16, 2008, 2:30pm

Lawrence Leighton Smith , Conductor
Hsing-Ay Hsu, Piano

Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Schumann: Symphony No. 1

Pianist Hsing-Ay Hsu shines in Mozart’s dramatic Piano Concerto No.20

American Salute
Saturday, January 10, 2009, 8:00pm
Sunday, January 11, 2009, 2:30pm

Thomas Wilson , Conductor
Peter Tuff, Baritone

Copland: Fanfare for The Common Man
Copland: Old American Songs
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Dvořák : Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”

Works by American composers surround Dvorak’s great tribute to our nation

Of Carnivals and Gypsies
Saturday, February 7, 2009, 8:00pm
Sunday, February 8, 2009, 2:30pm

Lawrence Leighton Smith , Conductor
Michael Hanson, Violin

Dvořák : Carnival Overture
Hindemith: Mathis der Maler
Beethoven: Romance in F
Ravel: Tzigane
de Sarasate: Carmen Fantasie

Concertmaster Michael Hanson brings us glorious gypsy gems

Old and New
Saturday, April 18, 2009, 8:00pm
Sunday, April 19, 2009, 2:30pm

Lawrence Leighton Smith , Conductor
Jeffrey Biegel, piano

Mozart: Overture to “The Magic Flute”, K. 620
Leroy Anderson: Piano Concerto in C
Keith Emerson: Piano Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Mozart and Beethoven join Anderson and Emerson

Magnificent Mahler
Saturday, May 30, 2009, 8:00pm
Sunday, May 31, 2009, 2:30pm

Lawrence Leighton Smith , Conductor

Mahler: Blumine
Mahler: Symphony No. 9

The Maestro meets Mahler

 

Programming may be subject to change.