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Georgetown Symphony Society

Season 2009-2010


All Concerts are on Sunday afternoons at 4:00
Center for the Performing Arts
Georgetown High School
2211 North Austin Avenue
Georgetown Texas 78626

Most programs also feature a pre-concert lecture at 3:15



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Sunday, September 13, 2009

 

Música de España y México

 

Temple Symphony Orchestra

Adam Holzman, guitar

Thomas Fairlie, Conductor

 

 

España - rapsodie pour orchestre
    

Emmanuel Chabrier
(1841 - 1894)

 

 

 

 

 

Concierto de Aranjuez
    

Joaquín Rodrigo
(1901 - 1999)

 

Allegro con spirito

 

Adagio

 

Allegro gentile

 

Intermission

 

 

Capriccio Espagnol Op 34

Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov

 

      ("on Spanish Themes')

(1844 - 1908)

 

Alborada

 

Variazioni

 

Alborada

 

Scena i canto gitano (Scene and Gypsy Song)

 

Fandango Asturiano

 

 

 

Huapango
    

José Pablo Mancayo Garcia
(1912 - 1958)

 

 

 

 

Ellsworth Peterson, pre-concert lecturer

 

Sunday, October 18, 2009

 

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Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
Finalist

 

Jan Jiracek von Arnim, piano, in Recital

 

 

Sonata in B flat major, Op.22

Ludwig van Beethoven

 

 

( 1770-1827)

 

Allegro con brio  

 

 

Adagio con molto espressione 

 

 

Menuetto 

 

 

Rondo (Allegretto) 

 

 

 

 

Nocturnes, Op. 9

Fryderyk Chopin

 

      

(1810 - 1849)

 

 

 

No. 1 in B flat minor

 

No. 2 in E flat major

 

 

 

 

 

Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Franz Liszt

 

  "Dance in the Village Tavern"

(1811-1889)

 

 


Intermission

 

 

Kartinki s vystavki

Modest Mussorgsky

 

  "Pictures from an Exhibition

( 1839-1881)

 

  Ten Pieces for Piano"

 

 

Promenade 

 

 

No. 1 "Gnomus"/ The Gnome

 

 

[Interlude: Promenade theme]

 

 

No. 2 "Il vecchio castello"/The old castle

 

 

[Interlude: Promenade theme]

 

 

No. 3 "Tuileries" (Dispute d'enfants après jeux)"/
  The Tuileries (Children arguing after play)

 

 

No. 4 "Bydło"/Cattle

 

 

[Interlude: Promenade theme]

 

 

No. 5 "Balet nevylupivshikhsya ptentsov"/
   Ballet of the unhatched chicks

 

 

No. 6 Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle

 

Promenade

 

 

No. 7 "Limoges, le marché" (La grande nouvelle)/
   Limoges, the Marketplace (The Great News)

 

 

No. 8 "Catacombæ" (Sepulcrum romanum) -
   "Cum mortuis in lingua mortua"/
   Catacombs (A Roman sepulchre) -
   With the dead in a dead language

 

 

No. 9 Izbushka na kuryikh nozhkakh (Baba-Yaga)/
   The Hut on Chicken's Legs (Bába-Yagá)

 

 

No. 10 Bogatyrskiye vorota
   (V stolnom gorode vo Kiyeve)/
   The Bogatýr Gate (In the Capital in Kiev)

 

 

 

 

Credits

Van Cliburn Foundation, 2525 Ridgmar Blvd, Suite 307

 

Fort Worth, TX 76116

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

 

Temple Symphony Orchestra

Teri Ann Johnson, soprano

David Small, baritone

Thomas Fairlie, Conductor

 

 

 

Viennese Pops

 

Overture to Die Fledermaus (The Bat)

Johann Strauss, Jr.

 

(1825-1899)

 

 

Non più andrai, from Le Nozze di Figaro

W. A. Mozart

(The Marriage of Figaro)

(1756-1791)

            David Small, baritone

 

 

 

Vienna, City of my Dreams

Rudolf Sieczynski

(Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume)

1879-1952

            Teri Johnson, soprano

 

 

 

Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald,
(Tales from the Vienna Woods) op. 325

Johann Strauss, Jr.

 

 

 

Lippen Schweigen, from The Merry Widow

Franz Lehár

(Lips are silent)

(1870-1948)

           Teri Johnson and David Small

 

 

 

Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

Johann Strauss, Jr.

 

 

intermission

 

 

 

An der schönen blauen Donau, op. 31

Johann Strauss, Jr.

(On the Beautiful Blue Danube)

 

 

Art is Calling for Me

Victor Herbert

from The Enchantress

(1859-1924)

            Teri Johnson

 

 

 

Jokey Polka (Jockey Polka) Op. 278

Josef Strauss

 

(1827-1870)

 

 

Major-General's Song from
The
Pirates of Penzance

W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)/ Arthur Sullivan(1842-1900)

            David Small

 

 

 

Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus

Johann Stauss, Jr.

            Teri Johnson

 

 

Bauern Polka (Peasants Polka)

Johann Strauss, Jr.

 

 

Largo al factotum della città

Gioachino Antonio Rossini

from Il barbiere di Siviglia
(The Barber of Seville)

(1792-1868)

            David Small

 

 

 

Kaiser-Walzer op. 437 (The Emperor Waltz)

Johann Strauss, Jr.

 

 

 

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