2025 Festival Season

The Russian Masters

Dmitri Shostakovich – Festive Overture

Sergei Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Simon Trpčeski, piano

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5

London Calling

Errollyn Wallen – Chorale for Strings

Edward Elgar – Cello Concerto
Sterling Elliott, cello

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No.2 “London”

Samuel Barber – String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11

Wynton Marsalis – At the Octoroon Balls (selections)

John Williams – With Malice Toward None (from the film “Lincoln”)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold – String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 34

Sights and Sounds of Scotland

Felix Mendelssohn – Fingal’s Cave Overture

Max Bruch – Scottish Fantasy
Simone Porter, violin

Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 3 “Scottish”

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings Op. 48

Antonin Dvořák – Serenade for Winds in D minor Op. 44

The Viennese Connection

Michael Palmer, conductor

Carl Maria von Weber – Overture to Oberon

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto for Flute and Harp
Christina Smith, flute; Sophie Baird-Daniel, harp

Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 4

An American in Paris

George Gershwin – An American in Paris

Claude Debussy – Trois Nocturnes (Three Nocturnes)

Germaine Tailleferre – Petite Suite

Gabriel Fauré – Pavane

George Gershwin – Porgy and Bess – Symphonic Picture