2026/27 Season Program Notes
POPS, FAMILY, HOLIDAY, SPECIAL AND COMMUNITY CONCERTS
CLASSICAL SERIES CONCERTS
Program Notes Archive
2025/26
CLASSICAL SERIES CONCERTS
- Rhapsody in Blue and Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony – June 19-21
- Rachmaninoff Celebration Part Two: Piano Concerto No. 3 – June 5-7
- Gil Shaham Plays Brahms – May 29-31
- Happy Hour Concert – May 12
- Grieg’s Piano Concerto – May 8-10
- Happy Hour Concert – April 22
- Farrenc, Schumann, and Dvořák – April 17-19
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – April 10-12
- Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto and Strauss – March 13-15
- Happy Hour Concert – March 4
- Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony – February 6-8
- Beethoven and Beyond – January 30-February 1
- Pines of Rome and Bruch’s Second Violin Concerto – January 16-18
- Brahm’s Fourth Symphony – January 9-11
- Matthias Conducts Mahler: Symphony No. 7 – November 21-23
- Rachmaninoff Celebration, Part 1 – October 31-November 2
- Copland’s Appalachian Spring – October 10-12
POPS, FAMILY, HOLIDAY, SPECIAL AND COMMUNITY CONCERTS
- Digital Program Book for Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony, Ben Rector: Symphonies Across America, Trey Anastasio with the Kansas City Symphony, and Steve Hackman’s Taylor Swift: The Symphony Era
- Digital Program Book for Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra, Final Symphony: Music From Final Fantasy, and The Music of Billy Joel and Elton John
- Digital Program Book for Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark™ in Concert, Chris Thile, She’s Got Soul, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™ in Concert
- Digital Program Book for Elf in Concert, Handel’s Messiah, Leslie Odom, Jr.: The Christmas Tour, Christmas Festival, It’s a Wonderful Life in Concert
- Digital Program Book for Tuba Christmas
- Digital Program Book for Happy Hour Concert: Highlighting Harp!
- Digital Program Book for Top Gun: Maverick in Concert, Dorothy Papadakos: The Lodger, 90s Mixtape, and Carnival of the Animals
- Digital Program Book for Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience, Windborne’s The Music of Journey, The Orchestra Games
- Digital Program Book for La nuit sombre
2024/25
CLASSICAL SERIES CONCERTS
- Happy Hour Concert – May 14
- The French Masters – May 9-11
- The Genius of Mozart – April 11-13
- Happy Hour Concert – April 14
- Romeo and Juliet – March 14-16
- Pictures at an Exhibition – February 21-23
- Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 — February 7-9
- Conrad Tao Plays Beethoven – January 24-26
- Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony, Pahud Plays Ibert – January 17-19
- Strauss’ Alpine Symphony, with Chopin – November 22-24
- Mozart’s Requiem – November 1-3
- Matthias Pintscher Welcomes Gil Shaham – October 4-6
- Stravinsky’s Firebird, Alisa Weilerstein Plays Dvořák – September 13-15
POPS, FAMILY, HOLIDAY AND SPECIAL CONCERTS
- Digital Program Book for Ultimate John Williams in Concert, Decades: Back to the 80s, Sailing: Soft Rock Hits of the 70s & 80s™, and Jaws in Concert
- Digital Program Book for Cody Fry, Sonic Time Travel with Project Trio, How to Train Your Dragon™ in Concert, and Ben Folds
- Digital Program Book for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone™ in Concert, Dan Brown’s Wild Symphony, Casablanca™ in Concert, and Kings of Soul
- Digital Program Book for 2025 ProAm
- Digital Program Book for Holiday Concerts: Home Alone™, Handel’s Messiah, The Texas Tenors, Christmas Festival and Frozen™ in Concert
- Digital Program Book for Nosferatu, Hocus Pocus™, Tubby the Tuba and The Sound of Magic
- Digital Program Book for Kristin Chenoweth, Jurassic Park™, Dionne Warwick and Psycho™
2023/24
CLASSICAL SERIES CONCERTS
- The Music is Calling — October 6-8
- Explore Your Imagination — October 27-29
- Music Illuminates the Soul — November 17-19
- Mozart & Dvořák: Through the Lens – November 24-26
- Joyce DiDonato’s Sparkling Songs and Strauss’ Die Fledermaus — January 12-14
- Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, plus The Magic Flute Overture — January 26-28
- Stern Conducts Beethoven’s Fifth — February 2-4
- Joyce Yang Plays Tchaikovsky — March 1-3
- Matthias Pintscher Conducts Symphonic Dances — March 22-24
- Ravel’s Boléro, with Foley’s Soul Bass — April 5-7
- Jeffrey Kahane Plays Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto — April 19-21
- Contributors’ Concert Program Book – May 23
- Joshua Bell and Ravel — May 31-June 2
- Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony — June 14-16
- Stern’s Farewell with Sibelius and Barber — June 21-23
POPS, FAMILY, HOLIDAY AND SPECIAL CONCERTS
- Digital Program Book for Harry Potter, Audra McDonald, Music of Led Zeppelin and Tower of Power
- Digital Program Book for Bond & Beyond, The Phantom of the Opera and Heroes and Villains
- Digital Program Book for Holiday Concerts: Handel’s Messiah, Muppet Christmas Carol, Christmas Festival, Nightmare Before Christmas
- Digital Program Book for Cirque Carmen: Troupe Vertigo, The Goonies™ in Concert and Legend of the Northern Lights
- Digital Program Book for Around the World in 80 Days, Symphonic Genesis and Cathie Ryan
- Digital Program Book for Harry Potter, The Music of Tina Turner and Sci-Fi Spectacular
- Digital Program Book for An Evening with Yo-Yo Ma
2022/23
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series concerts 1, 2 and 3
- September 16-18: Copland’s Third Symphony, with Saint-Saens’ Third Violin Concerto
- October 7-9: Strauss’ Alpine Symphony
- October 28-30: Symphonie fantastique, Brahms and Mendelssohn
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series concerts 4, 5 and 6
- November 25-27: Dvorak Symphony No. 8, with Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto
- January 13-15: The Fountains and Pines of Rome, plus Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto
- January 20-22: Wagner’s Flying Dutchman and Barber’s Violin Concerto
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series concerts 7, 8 and 9
- February 10-12: Ruth Reinhardt Conducts Sibelius
- March 3-5: Ravel’s “Rapsodie” and Scriabin’s “Poem of Ecstasy”
- March 24-26: Holst’s “The Planets”
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series concerts 10 and 11
- March 31-April 2: Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Nielsen’s “Inextinguishable”
- April 21-23: Spring Celebration! Holst, Haydn and Hindemith
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series concerts 12, 13 and 14
- June 2-4: Stern Conducts Mahler and Montgomery
- June 16-18: The Rite of Spring, Ax Plays Beethoven
- June 23-25: Classical Series Finale! Broberg Plays Rachmaninoff, with Puccini and Tchaikovsky
POPS, FAMILY, HOLIDAY AND SPECIAL CONCERTS
- Digital Program Book for Harry Potter, Violent Femmes and Rufus Wainwright
- Digital Program Book for Pops Series concerts
- Digital Program Book for Family Series concerts
- Digital Program for Free Happy Hour concert on October 20
- Digital Program Book for Holiday Concerts: The Doo Wop Project, Handel’s Messiah, Christmas Festival, Elf in Concert
- Digital Program Book for Special Presentations: Black Panther, Indigo Girls, Disco Inferno, Michael Feinstein, The Princess Bride in Concert
- Happy Hour on February 1: A Black History Month Celebration
2021/22
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series Concerts 1, 2 and 3
- September 24-26: Mahler’s “Titan” with Kahane’s World Premiere Piano Concerto
- October 29-31: Brahms’ First, Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1
- November 5-7: Scheherazade! Plus Strauss’ “Burleske”
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series Concerts 4, 5 and 6
- November 26-28: Schumann’s “Rhenish” with Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto
- January 14-16: Shostakovich’s Fifth, plus Gershwin’s Piano Concerto
- January 28-30: Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration, Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series Concerts 7, 8 and 9
- February 4-6: Prokofiev’s Fifth, with Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations
- March 4-6: Elgar’s First, plus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24
- March 25-27: La Mer and Brahms’ Violin Concerto
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series Concerts 10, 11 and 12
- April 1-3: Petrouchka, plus Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
- April 22-24: Miraculous Mandarin with Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto
- June 3-5: Saint-Saens’ “Organ Symphony” and World Premiere of Rogerson’s Violin Concerto
- Digital Program Book for Classical Series Concerts 13 and 14
- June 17-19: Sleeping Beauty with Sibelius’ Violin Concerto
- June 23-26: Season Finale – Beethoven’s Ninth
POPS, FAMILY, HOLIDAY AND SPECIAL CONCERTS
- Digital Program Book for Symphony Pops Series concerts
- Digital Program Book for Handel’s Messiah, Christmas Festival and Home Alone
- Digital Program Book for Symphony Family Series concerts
2020/21
- Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, June 17-20: Season Finale! Debussy, Barber, Haydn
- Sunday, June 20, 2021 on MySymphonySeat.org: Transfigured Night
- Sunday, June 6, 2021 on MySymphonySeat.org: Stravinsky’s Octet, with Dvořák’s Serenade
- Friday, Saturday & Sunday, June 4-6: Mozart and More: Serenade and Sinfonietta
- Wednesday and Friday, May 26 and 28, 2021: FANFARE! Copland, Hailstork, Strauss, Stravinsky
- Sunday, May 23, 2021: Copland and Korngold
- Sunday, May 9, 2021: Symphony Pops: America – From Rag to Rock (artist bios)
- Sunday, May 9 Mother’s Day Free Performance: William Grant Still – Mother and Child
- Sunday, April 25, 2021: Grieg and Bartok
- Sunday, April 18, 2021: Copland and Tate
- Sunday, April 11, 2021: Stravinsky, Debussy, Bach, Higdon
- Sunday, March 28, 2021: Free Chamber Music Performance
- Sunday, March 21, 2021: Hailstork, Handel, Diamond
- Sunday, March 14, 2021: Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, with Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Oboes
- Sunday, March 7, 2021: Bio of Guest Conductor Jack Everly
- Sunday, March 7, 2021: Bios of Featured Soloists Julian Kaplan, Kayla Burggraf, Kristina Fulton and Sunho Kim
- Sunday, February 28, 2021: Mozart and Elgar
- Saturday, February 6, 2021: Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge
- Sunday, January 31, 2021: Vivaldi Meets the Marimba
- Sunday, January 24, 2021: Vivaldi, Puccini, Verdi
- Sunday, January 17, 2021: Tchaikovsky, Barber and Simon
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