PERFORMANCES 13/14

Aug.14.2013
Dartington International Summer Festival

7.45pm
Dartington Festival Orchestra
Dartington Hall
Totnes, Devon, UK.
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Schubert - Symphony No.4, D417 ‘Tragic’

Aug.21.2013
Dartington International Summer Festival

7.45pm
Dartington Festival Orchestra
Dartington Hall
Totnes, Devon, UK.
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Haydn - Symphony No.104, ‘London’ Hob 1/104 

Aug.28.2013  
Dartington International Summer Festival

7.45pm
Dartington Festival Orchestra
Dartington Hall
Totnes, Devon, UK.
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Arnold Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht
Igor Stravinsky - Firebird Suite

Sep.27.2013
Benjamin Britten Retrospective

7.30pm
Jean Jeffries, horn
Kyle Stegall, tenor 
Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra
McCulloch Auditorium, Pratt Hall, Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
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Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

Oct.20.2013
Family and Friends Concert

4.00pm
Mount Holyoke College Choral Ensembles
Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra  
Abbey Memorial Chapel, Mount Holyoke College     
South Hadley, MA
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J Strauss Jr. - Kaiser waltzer op. 437
Bizet - Allegro vivo from Symphony in C
Copland - Selections from Old American Songs 

Oct.25.2013
Monsters Ball *Video Game Edition*

8.00pm
Holyoke High School Chamber Choir
Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra  
Abbey Memorial Chapel, Mount Holyoke College     
South Hadley, MA
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Uematsu  - Ending Theme from Final Fantasy X 
J Strauss Jr. - An der schönen blauen Donau, op.314 
Pulkinnen - Soundtrack from Angry Birds
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique 
Tin - Calling All Dawns: Baba Yetu from Civilization IV 
J Strauss Jr. - Kaiser waltzer op. 437 
Brax - Pokemon Reorchestrated

Nov.22.2013
In memoriam JFK

8.00pm
Elizabeth Baxter, soprano
Larry Schipull, organ
Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra  
Abbey Memorial Chapel, Mount Holyoke College     
South Hadley, MA
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Watkins - Soul of Remembrance
Mendelssohn - Infelice! Op.64
Bizet - Symphony in C 
Rheinberger - Organ Concerto No.2 in G Minor
Barber - Adagio for Strings

Nov.24.2013
In memoriam JFK

8.00pm
Elizabeth Baxter, soprano
Larry Schipull, organ
Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra  
First Congregational Church of Holyoke     
Holyoke, MA
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Watkins - Soul of Remembrance
Mendelssohn - Infelice! Op.64
Bizet - Symphony in C 
Rheinberger - Organ Concerto No.2 in G Minor
Barber - Adagio for Strings

Nov.26.2013
Celebrating Wagner and Verdi

7.30pm
University of Massachusetts Amherst Symphony Orchestra
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst      
Amherst, MA
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Verdi - Overture to Nabucco
Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.7 in A Major 

Feb.21.2014
Distant Roots, Local Voices

8.00pm
Dashon Burton, baritone
Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra  
Abbey Memorial Chapel, Mount Holyoke College    
South Hadley, MA
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Mahler - Songs of a Wayfarer
Sowande - A Folk Symphony
Sanford - Thy Book of Toil *world premiere 

Mar.12.2014
Desolation - Jubilation

7.30pm
UMass Amherst Symphony Orchestra
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst      
Amherst, MA
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Janacek - Fanfare from Sinfonietta
Haydn - Overture to l’Isola disabitata
Stravinsky - Pulcinella Suite
Mozart - Symphony No.41 in C Major k.551 “Jupiter”
Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man

Apr.4.2014

Apr.5.2014
Dark River, A Civil Rights Opera

3.00pm 8.00pm
Martha Richards, producer 
Darryl V. Jones, director
Andrea Chinde Nwoke, Fannie Lou Hamer
Philip Lima, Perry Hamer aka Pap
Matt Chastain, W.D. Marlowe
Farah Darliette, Teen Fannie
Melynda Davis, Dorothy Jean Hamer
Thandiwe Delgado-Kinyatti, Young Fannie
Ernest Jackson, SNCC Leader
Robert King, Sharecropper
Synthia Pullum, Lou Ella Townsend
Aaron Reeder, Bob Moses
Craig Simonetti, Cop 1
Robert Stahley, Hubert Humphrey
Matthew Stansfield, John Edgar Hoover
Mauri Tetrault, Sheriff’s Wife
Miguel Vasquez, James Townsend aka Poppa
Maya Starr Ward, Gertie
Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra  
in collaboration with WomenArts
Chapin Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College    
South Hadley, MA
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Watkins - Dark River, the Story of Fannie Lou Hamer

Apr.12.2014
UMass Amherst 75th Anniversary Concert

7.30pm
UMass Amherst Symphony Orchestra
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst      
Amherst, MA
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Brahms - i. Allegro non troppo from Symphony No.2 in D Major Op.73
Elgar - Nimrod from Enigma Variations
Tchaikovsky - iv. Allegro vivace from Symphony No.4 in F Minor 

Apr.12.2014
Shadows and Farewells

7.30pm
UMass Amherst Symphony Orchestra
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst      
Amherst, MA
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Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.2 in D Major Op.73

Apr.27.2014
Scandinavian Passions

6.30pm
UMass Amherst All-University Orchestra 
Grace Episcopal Church    
Amherst, MA
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Rossini - Overture to the Barber of Seville
Watkins - Soul of Remembrance
Mozart - Symphony No.35 "Haffner"
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