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49th Season
2025-2026

Missed a concert or want to relive a favorite? Explore last season’s performances below, including concert repertoires and links to each program.

sheldon conducting
sheldon conducting

A Melange of Art:
Music, Pictures, and Dances

October 12, 2025

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Modest Mussorgsky, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition Karen Gorden, conductor

 

Promenade

Gnomus

The Old Castle

The Tuileries

Bydlo

Ballet of the Unhatched Chickens

Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle

The Market Place of Limoges

Catacombs

The Hut on Fowl's Legs

The Great Gate of Kyiv

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Florence Price, orchestrated by William Grant Still - Dances in the Canebrakes

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Nimble Feet

Silk Hat and Walking Cane

Tropical Noon (Cotton Dance)

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Sir Malcolm Arnold - Scottish Dances

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Pesante

Vivace

Allegretto

Con Brio

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Antonin Dvořák - Slavonic Dances Op. 46

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No. 4 in F Major Sousedská

No. 8 in G Minor Furiant

The Spirit of the Holidays

December 6, 2025​

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Georges Bizet – Farandole (March of the Kings) from L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2

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Manfred Reek – Fantasie im Schnee (Fantasy in the Snow) premiere

 

Percy Grainger/arr. Carl Simpson – Sussex Mummers Carol

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Richard Maltz – Dance of the Inflatables (a Christmas lawn ornament

fantasy) premiere

 

Dana Friedman and Robert Wendel – A Chanukah Overture

Brian Folus, conductor

 

Chip Davis, arr. Calvin Custer – Stille Nacht (Mannheim Steamroller arrangement)

Julia Dather, cello

 

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Polonaise from Christmas Eve Suite

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Bob Good – Olivia, the Witch and the Christmas Tree

Grace Callwood, narrator

 

Sheldon Bair – Christmas Sing Along

santa walking through the audience
sheldon conducting

Overcoming Adversity Through Music: A Holocaust Memorial Concert
Underwritten by the Ralph & Shirley Klein Foundation

March 8, 2026​

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold, arr. by Jerry Brubaker – The Sea Hawk, selections from the film

Brian Folus, conductor

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Robert Dauber, arr. by Sheldon Bair – Serenata (Serenade)

Yonatan Grinberg, violin

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John Williams – Main Theme from Schindler’s List

Yonatan Grinberg, violin

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Felix Mendelssohn – Selections from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21 and 61

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Overture

Wedding March

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Mieczysław Weinberg - Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 43

Lawrence Stomberg, cello

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Adagio -

Moderato

Allegro (with a Cadenza) -

Allegro

Spiritual Americana!

May 2, 2026​

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Michael Fili - The Old Line (Concert Fanfare for Brass and Percussion)

 

Brian Folus, conductor​

 

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

 

George Gershwin – Cuban Overture (Rumba)

 

Aaron Copland, arr. Glenn Koponen - “Zion’s Walls”

with community choirs

David Tramontana, conductor​

 

Jesse Ayers and Charles Myricks, Jr. - There’s a Stirrin’ in the Water

 

with community choirs

Kellen Johnson, baritone​

 

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

 

Washington García, piano

orchestra taking bow

Beethoven Would Totally Approve

Enjoy an evening of beauty, brilliance, and bows (the violin kind).

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