The 2011/12 Season
Fall 2011
Cycle 1
Friday, September 23, 2011 8:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Wagner—Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Prokofiev—Piano Concerto No.1 in D-flat major, Op. 10
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Cycle 2
Friday, October 21, 2011, 8:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Collaboration with CSULB History Dept. Prof. William Weber, ret.
The Great Transformation of Musical Taste
Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms (pub. Cambridge 2008)
Hummel—Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major (Prof. Robert Frear, Faculty Trumpet soloist)
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92, mvt. 2
Selections from Operas by Mozart, Dvorak and Puccini for Solo voice and piano/orchestra
Adams—Chairman Dances—Foxtrot
Schreker—Romantic Suite: Idylle and Tanz **US Premiere**
Cycle 3
Friday, November 18, 2011 8:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center
R. Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op.40
Puccini—La Boheme, Act II
(with Bob Cole Opera Students and Chamber Choir)
Spring 2012
Cycle 4
Friday and Saturday February 10 & 11, 2012 8:00pm Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall
Copland—Appalachian Spring (full orchestra version) (Brandon Faber, graduate conducting student)
Alan Shockley—the night copies me
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Cycle 5
Friday, March 2, 2012 8:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Shostakovich—Concerto for violoncello and orchestra No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107 (Minna Im, violoncello; winner of the 2011/12 concerto competition)
Mahler—Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan"
Cycle 6
Thursday, April 5, 2012 8:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Rachmaninoff—Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (Dr. Shun-Lin Chou, Faculty Piano Soloist)
Brahms—Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Cycle 7
Celebrating Music
Saturday, May 5, 2012 8:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Rachmaninoff—The Bells, op. 35
Walton—Belshazzar's Feast
(both works with soloists & combined choirs)
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