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J. STRAUSS The Gypsy Baron
July 2, 7, 11, 17, 23, 31
August 2, 7

GERSHWIN Lady, Be Good!
July 10, 14, 19, 27
August 2, 4, 9

OFFENBACH The Grand Duchess of Gérolstein
July 24, 28
August 3, 6, 8

Carnegie Hall — Weill Music Institute
Link Up Orchestra Education Concerts

The Orchestra Moves

Carnegie Hall — Weill Music Institute
Link Up Orchestra Education Concerts
The Orchestra Moves
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 — Straz/Morsani — Tampa, Florida
Thursday, May 9, 2013 — Ruth Eckerd Hall — Clearwater, Florida

Outdoor Parks Program
Saturday, May 11, 2013 — Raymond James Stadium — Tampa, Florida
Sunday, May 12, 2013 — Curtis Hixon Park — Tampa, Florida

April 27, 2013 — LINK Centre Concert Hall — Tupelo, Mississippi
April 28, 2013 — Magnolia Arts Center — New Albany, Mississippi

New Worlds
Sarah Crocker, Harp
Yoonie Han, Piano

DEBUSSY Dances Sacred and Profane
GERSHWIN Rhapsody In Blue
DVORAK Symphony No. 9, From the New World

Arend Arts Center — Bentonville, Arkansas

Jonathan Story, Piano
Brice Smith, Flute — University of Arkansas Department of Music Concerto Competition Winner

MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain
ARNOLD Flute Concerto
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2

Chattanooga, Tennessee

BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture
GERSHWIN An American In Paris Suite
STRAVINSKY Infernal Dance, Berceuse & Finale from The Firebird
BERNSTEIN Mambo from West Side Story

Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre — Rochester, New York

WEILL Street Scene

Tupelo Performing Arts Center — Tupelo, Mississippi

GILBERT & SULLIVAN The Mikado in Concert

LINK Centre Concert Hall — Tupelo, Mississippi

Hungarian Passion
Cecile Licad, Piano

KÁLMÁN Overture to Die Faschingsfee
LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1
LISZT Totentanz
KODALY Suite from Hary Janos

Carnegie Hall — Weill Music Institute
Link Up Orchestra Education Concerts

The Orchestra Moves

University of Alabama Concert Hall
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

GLINKA Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla
SIBELIUS Finlandia
RiMELIS My Not So Ordinary Day At School (World Premiere)
DVORAK Symphony No. 9: IV

Arend Arts Center • Bentonville, Arkansas

Gershwin and Friends
Yoonie Han, Piano

GERSHWIN Selections from Song of the Flame
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
RODGERS My Heart Stood Still from Connecticut Yankee
KERN Selections from Show Boat
PORTER Selections from Kiss Me Kate
RODGERS Selections from Oklahoma!

Carnegie Hall — Weill Music Institute
Link Up Orchestra Education Concerts

The Orchestra Moves

LINK Centre Concert Hall — Tupelo, Mississippi

Classic Masterpieces
Alison Eldredge, Cello
Carlton McCreery, Cello

VIVALDI Concerto for Two Cellos in G Minor
SAINT SAËNS Cello Concerto No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Rochester, Michigan

PUCCINI Suor Angelica
PUCCINI Gianni Schicchi

Arend Arts Center — Bentonville, Arkansas

Christmas with the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra

Laurie Gayle Stephenson, Soprano
Steve Amerson, Tenor
McNair Middle School Glee Club — Jennie Alves, Director

Glorious Sounds of Christmas GUSTAFSON
Christmas Is the Best Time Of The Year JOHNSON
It’s The Most Wonderful Time/Christmas Waltz arr. KESSLER
My Favorite Things arr. SIMS
Sleigh Ride arr. BOLKS/WINCH
I’ll Be Home For Christmas arr. KROGSTAD
Stille Nacht DAVIS
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas arr. KROGSTAD
All Through The Night arr. GRAEF
We Need A Little Christmas/Let It Snow arr. BOLKS/JOHNSON
Gloria arr. KROGSTAD
Christmas Carol Medley arr. JOHNSON
Jingle Bells Forever SMITH
An Irving Berlin Christmas arr. BRYMER/BROWN
Someday arr. MOTT
Mary Did You Know? arr. KROGSTAD
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing arr. BOLKS
Peace, Peace/Silent Night arr. KIRKLAND
We Wish You A Merry Christmas arr. KROGSTAD

Tupelo Civic Auditorium — Tupelo, Mississippi

Christmas with the Tupelo Symphony

Itawamba Community College Chorus
Karen Davis & Robert Taylor, Directors

Tupelo Symphony Orchestra Children’s Chorus
Monica Roden Spencer, Director

Glorious Sounds of Christmas GUSTAFSON
Carol of the Bells BRADFORD
Coventry Carol arr. RYDEN
What Child Is This? arr. LEAVITT
O Holy Night arr. CUSTER
Masters in This Hall WILBERG
Everywhere Christmas Tonight WILLIAMS
Jingle Bells Forever arr. Smith
Around the World At Christmas Time arr. CHASE
I Saw Three Ships WILBERG
Stille Nacht arr. DAVIS/CUSTER
Pat-a-Pan BRADFORD
Away in a Manger BRADFORD
Holiday Favorites arr. EMERSON/LAVENDER
White Christmas arr. BENNETT
A Musicological Journey Through Twelve Days of Christmas COURTNEY

Tupelo Performing Arts Center — Tupelo, Mississippi

TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker

Arend Arts Center — Bentonville, Arkansas

Classic Masters
Alison Eldredge, Cello
Stephen Gates, Cello

VIVALDI Concerto for Two Cellos in G Minor
SAINT SAËNS Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A Major

LINK Centre Concert Hall — Tupelo, Mississippi

Russian Passion
Roberto Plano, Piano

MUSSORGSKY A Night On Bald Mountain
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

10th Anniversary Concert

MOZART Overture from Le nozze di Figaro
VERDI Brindisi from La Traviata
BIZET "Habanera" from Carmen
BIZET "Toreador" from Carmen
MASCAGNI Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
JEAN BERGER Villanescas
PUCCINI Humming Chorus from Madama Butterfly
PUCCINI Te Deum ("Va, Tosca") from Tosca
KANDER/EBB Wilkommen from Cabaret
RODGERS "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific
RODGERS "Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered" from Pal Joey
KERN "Ol' Man River" from Show Boat
BERNSTEIN Medley from West Side Story
VERDI "Vedi! le fosche notturne spoglie" (Anvil Chorus) from Il Trovatore
J. STRAUSS Die Fledermaus Waltz (Du und Du)

RODGERS A Connecticut Yankee
June 23, 29
July 7, 13, 19, 22, 26, 29
August 1, 3, 10

ROMBERG Blossom Time
July 11, 14, 17, 19, 26
August 3, 8

KÀLMÀN Die Faschingsfee (Miss Springtime)
July 25, 28
August 2, 7, 10

RIEGGER La Belle Dame sans Merci
PREVIN Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

May 2, 2012 — Morsani Hall, Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa:
Carnegie Hall Link Up The Orchestra Sings

May 3, 2012 — Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater:
Carnegie Hall Link Up The Orchestra Sings

May 3, 2012 — Curtis Hixon Park, Tampa:
Pops Program

May 4, 2012 — Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg:
Michael Cavanaugh The Music of Billy Joel

May 5, 2012 — Raymond James Stadium, Tampa:
Pops Program

Jeffrey Biegel, Piano
Janice Fulbright, Contralto
University of Arkansas Schola Cantorum and Master Chorale
Todd Prickett, Director

TSCHESNOKOFF Salvation Is Created
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3
PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky

Invitation to the Dance

BIZET Toreador March from Carmen Suite No. 1
DVORAK Slavonic Dance No. 2
BRAHMS Hungarian Dance No. 5
BERLIOZ Hungarian March
FAURE Pavane
TCHAIKOVSKY Waltz from Sleeping Beauty
COPLAND Hoe Down from Rodeo
OFFENBACH Orpheus In the Underworld Overture

Alexander Schimpf, Piano
Cleveland International Piano Competition First Prize Winner 2011

DUKAS Fanfare to La Peri
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major
SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture
RESPIGHI The Pines of Rome

March 31, 2012 — LINK Centre Concert Hall, Tupelo, MS
April 1, 2012 — Magnolia Arts Center, New Albany, MS

A Salute to the Troops
Steve Amerson, Tenor

The Star Spangled Banner
Tonight/Something’s Coming
Into the Fire
Bring Him Home
American Anthem
America the Beautiful
The Impossible Dream
God Bless the USA
American Salute
Armed Forces Medley — A Salute to the Troops
Because of the Brave
Blades of Grass & Pure White Stones
Shenandoah
Climb Every Mountain/You’ll Never Walk Alone
God Bless America

Carnegie Hall Link Up Program
The Orchestra Moves!

Global Perspectives
Alexander Markov, Violin
Paganini International Violin Competition Gold Medalist

ENESCU Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio Italien
LALO Symphonie Espagnole

Carnegie Hall Link Up Concerts
The Orchestra Rocks!
Alexander Markov, Violin

Trail of Tears
Amy Porter, Flute
Sara Carina Graef, Guest Composer
Honored Guests of the Chickasaw and Cherokee Nations

BERNSTEIN Overture to Candide
DAUGHERTY Trail of Tears
GRAEF Cooling in the Peppermint Wind
COPLAND Appalachian Spring

KHACHATURIAN Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
LIM The Remains of Truth World Premiere
GERSHWIN An American in Paris
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5: Finale

MOZART Così fan tutte

Trail of Tears
Amy Porter, Flute
Honored Guests of the Chicaksaw Nation

MEYER Of Glorious Plumage
DAUGHERTY Trail of Tears
GRIFFES The White Peacock
COPLAND Appalachian Spring

Christmas with the APO
Bella Vista Men's Chorus - Bill Hesse, Director
Bella Vista Women's Chorus – Larry Zehring, Director
Ozark Bronze Handbell Choir — Kerry Johnston, Director

A Christmas Festival — Anderson
O Tannenbaum — arr. Bartsch
Fantasia on Greensleeves — Vaughan Williams
Angels from the Realms — arr. McKecknie
Stille Nacht — arr. Davis/Custer
Carol of the Bells — arr. Hayman
Carol of the Bells — arr. McChesney
Cantique de Noel — arr. Custer
Let It Snow — arr. Wagner
We Three Kings — arr. McKecknie
Angels’ Carol — Rutter
White Christmas — arr. Ringwald
Little Drummer Boy — Simeone/Hayes
Mary Did You Know? — Lowry/Green
A Musicological Journey Through Twelve Days of Christmas — Courtney
The Many Moods of Christmas — Suite IV — Shaw/Bennett

Sounds of the Season
Ford Center for the Performing Arts
University of Mississippi • Oxford, Mississippi

Doris Roberts, Host
Mary Donnelly Haskell & Guy Hovis, Soloists
Miss America, Teresa Scanlan, Special Guest
Oxford Civic Chorus — Brooke Worthy, Director
Oxford Children’s Chorus — Andrew Paney, Director

A Canadian Brass Christmas
We Need a Little Christmas
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Stille Nacht
Christmas Is A Time For Children
No Longer A Baby
Carol of the Bells
Angels’ Carol
Just In Time for Christmas
Winter Wonderland
Christmas Song
Is There A Place?
We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Christmas with the TSO
Itawamba Community College Choruses
Tupelo Symphony Orchestra Children’s Chorus

An Overture for Christmas — Benoy
Joy to the World — arr. Wilberg
Fantasia on Greensleeves — Vaughan Williams
All Through the Night — arr. Graef
Whence is That Goodly Fragrance Flowing? — arr. Wilberg
Carol Of The Bells — arr. Hayman
Star Carol — Rutter
A Musicological Journey Through Twelve Days of Christmas — Courtney
A Canadian Brass Christmas — arr. Custer
The First Noel — arr. Wilberg
Geistliches Wiegenlied (Sacred Lullaby) — Brahms
A Day, A Day of Glory — Bradford
Stille Nacht — arr. Davis/Custer
Irving Berlin's Christmas — Brymer/Brown
The Blessed Son from Hodie — Vaughan Williams
Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2 — Bizet

Performances in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma.

MOZART Symphony No. 40: I. Molto allegro
GRIEG Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5: I. Allegro con brio
GEORGES BIZET Carmen Suite No. 1

Three B’s: Berlioz, Bruch, and Beethoven
Natasha Korsakova, Violin

BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture
BRUCH Violin Concerto in G Minor
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C Minor

Martina Filjak, Piano
Cleveland International Piano Competition First Prize Winner 2009

BEETHOVEN Overture to Egmont
BIZET Suite No. 2 from L’Arlesienne
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1

Children’s Concert
Symphonic Storytelling
Davis Events Center
Itawamba Community College — Fulton, MS

SMITH Star Spangled Banner
GOULD American Salute
DVORAK Symphony No. 9 in E Minor — II. Largo
GERSHWIN An American in Paris (Excerpts)
STRAUSS Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Opening)
HOLST Mars from The Planets
WILLIAMS Symphonic Suite from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
BERNSTEIN Mambo from West Side Story

PORTER Jubilee
June 25

HERBERT The Fortune Teller
July 13, 17, 19, 23, 28
August 4, 10

SULLIVAN Cox and Box
SULLIVAN Trial By Jury
OFFENBACH Evening Wind
July 27, 31
August 4, 6, 9, 12

Steven Byess, Conductor
Amalia Helmkamp, Violin
Brian Brown, Trumpet

HAYDN Violin Concerto
HAYDN Trumpet Concerto
HOLST The Planets

Arkansas Philharmonic Educational Concerts
11:00 AM & 1:00 PM

University of Arkansas Choruses:
Schola Cantorum & Master Chorale — Dr. Todd Prickett, Director
Concert Choir — Dr. Eddie Jones, Director

AUGUSTA READ THOMAS Alleluia
MOZART Symphony No. 29 in A Major
MOZART Requiem

Steven Byess, Conductor
J. Patrick Rafferty, Violin
Yaron Kohlberg, Piano
Sara Carina Graef, Guest Composer

GRAEF Cooling in the Peppermint Wind (World Premiere)
MOZART Concerto No 3 for Violin in G Major,
RAVEL Alborada del Gracioso
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor

HANDEL Messiah

Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra
Tri-Lakes Regional Chorus
Springfield Mid-America Singers

Dick Clark Theatre
Branson, Missouri

Damon Coleman, Cello

GLUCK Overture and Ballet Music from Orfeo ed Euridice
TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme
MOZART Symphony No. 40

SOUSA El Capitan in Concert

Steven Byess, Conductor
Mississippi State University Choruses — Bruce Lesley, Director

Princess Marghanza — Alta Dantzler
Isabel — Nancy María Balach
Pozzo — Anthony Maida
Verrada — Drake Dantzler
Scaramba — Michael Hix
Don Medigua — Nicholas Wuehrmann
Estrelda — Monica Roden Spencer
Cazarro — Michael McCoy

SOUSA El Capitan in Concert

Steven Byess, Conductor
Mississippi State University Choruses — Bruce Lesley, Director

Princess Marghanza — Alta Dantzler
Isabel — Nancy María Balach
Pozzo — Anthony Maida
Verrada — Drake Dantzler
Scaramba — Michael Hix
Don Medigua — Nicholas Wuehrmann
Estrelda — Monica Roden Spencer
Cazarro — Michael McCoy

Cartoon Classics

Music Director Steven Byess leads another of his very popular cinema programs, playing some of the greatest classics of the orchestral repertoire
complete with the classic animations that highlight these works.

GEORGES BIZET Toreador March from Carmen
GIOCOMO ROSSINI Overture to The Barber of Seville
PAUL DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
FRANZ LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
RICHARD WAGNER Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre
JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. On the Beautiful Blue Danube
PIOTR TCHAIKOVSKY Waltz from Sleeping Beauty
IGOR STRAVINSKY The Firebird

John Schuesselin, Trumpet

BACH/STOKOWSKI Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
ARUTIUNIAN Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
HOLST The Planets

Symphonic Storytelling

Tupelo Symphony Orchestra
Children's Concerts
11:00 AM & 1:00 PM

Saltillo Elementary School Chorus

SMITH Star Spangled Banner
GOULD American Salute
DVORAK Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (Largo)
GERSHWIN An American in Paris (Excerpts)
STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra (Opening)
HOLST Mars from The Planets
WILLIAMS Symphonic Suite from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
BERNSTEIN Mambo from West Side Story

Made In America
Steven Byess, Conductor

GOULD American Salute
COPLAND Variations on a Shaker Melody
GERSHWIN An American in Paris
BERNSTEIN Mambo from West Side Story

Steven Byess, Conductor
Stanislav Ioudenitch, Piano
Tatiana Ioudenitch, Piano
Maria Ioudenitch, Violin

RAVEL Sonatine
CHOPIN Valses
STRAVINSKY Trois Mouvements de Pétrouchka
SCHUBERT Fantasy in F Minor for Piano Four-Hands
SARASATE Zigeunerweisen (arr. Byess)
PIAZZOLLA Adios nonino & Libertango
YOUMANS Tea for Two (arr. Nero)