Two Subscriptions to the PSO's 2008-2009 season
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Win 2 Season Subscriptions to the award-winning Plymouth Symphony's 2008-2009 Season!
"No orchestra locally does more to...create a sense of adventure when the lights go down."
Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press
October 4, 2008 Concert Music in Film
Franz Waxman Sunset Boulevarde
Elmer Bernstein to kill a mocking bird
John Williams dry your tears afrika from “Amistad”
John Wiliams Escapades from “Catch Me if You Can” for solo saxophone and orchestra
Samuel Barber Adagio for strings (used in many films including Platoon & Lorenzo's Oil)
Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West side Story
November 8, 2008 Mostly Midwest, Music from the Heartland
David Syme piano, James Aikman, composer
James Aikman Tempus Fugit ("Time Flies") world premiere
Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 “New World”
January 24, 2009 Happy Birthday Mozart Concert
Mark Schuppener, violin & Mircea Cure, viola
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Contra Dances K. 603
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sinfonia concertante
TBA New work based on Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”
February 7, 2009 Folk music (chamber orchestra)
Alexis Alrich, composer
Mikhail Glinka Kamarinskya (side by side)
Alexis Alrich Marimba Concerto
Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 “Italian”
March 14, 2009 Freedom
Ward Chancel Choir, Carole Halmekangas, director
Plymouth Oratorio Society, Richard Ingram, director
Madonna College Chorale, David Wagner, director
Zhou Long The Rhyme of Taigu (2003)
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Special Instructions
Background:
The Plymouth Symphony Orchestra is a 63 year old, fully professional ensemble that has a five concert subscription series at Ward Church in Northville and Pops series at the Penn Theatre in downtown Plymouth.
PSO Music Director and Conductor, Nan Washburn, has won 16 ASCAP awards for her innovative programming and commitment to performing the works of contemporary American composers.
The PSO has been the recipient of numerous awards and prestigious grants, including grants from the Kresge Foundation and NEA in 2007, ASCAP awards in 2003 and 2004 2007, a 2006 Aaron Copland grant recognizing the organization's dedication to performing the work of American composers, and the highly sought after NEA "Challenge America" grant in both 2004 and 2005, awarded to only one arts organization per county.