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Wilmington Symphony Orchestra
4608 Cedar Ave., #105
Wilmington, NC 28403

Phone: 910-791-9262
Fax: 910-791-8970

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2014

,A CHANGE IS GONNA COME | Saturday, February 8, 2014

2013

,ADAGIO FOR STRINGS | Saturday, October 19, 2013

,SLEEPING BEAUTY | Saturday, September 21, 2013

,ST. PETERSBURG SOJOURN | Saturday, April 27, 2013

,SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAS | Saturday, March 16, 2013

2012

,HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS | Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 | Home for the Holidays

,ANTON DVORAK | 1841 — 1904 | Concerto No. 1 in a minor for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 26 188

,JOHANNES BRAHMS | 1833 – 1897 | Serenade No. 1 opus 16 - 1859

,JOHANN STRAUSS II | 1825 — 1899 | "Fruhlingsstimmen" ("Voices of Spring") 1883

,LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN | 1770 – 1827 | Overture to the Creatures of Prometheus, OP. 43-1801

,LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN | 1770 – 1827 | Symphony No. 9 in D minor 1824

, MAX BRUCH | 1838 – 1920 | VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 in g minor, Op. 26 First Movement 1866

,Rendezvous in Paris | Ravel's Boléro and other French Orchestral Favorites

,STEVEN ERRANTE | Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, conductor
,,Cradle Songs | Commissioned in 1989 by the North Carolina Music Teachers' Association
,,Symphony No. 2 | Commissioned in 1989 for the 250th Anniversary of Wilmington, NC

, WOLFGANG A. MOZART | 1756 – 1791| Piano Concerto #17 (K453) in G Major - 1784

2011

,J. S. BACH | 1985 – 1750 | Christmas Oratorio 1730s: Sinfonia 

,SAMUEL BARBER | 1910 – 1981 | Chorale Prelude (1969) on Silent Night

,BELA BARTOK | 1881 – 1945 | CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA 1944 

,GOSPEL MUSIC 

,GEORG F. HANDEL | 1685 — 1893 | WATER MUSIC 1715, 1717, 1736

,FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN | 1732 – 1809 | SYMPHONY NO. 98 in B MAJOR 1792

,FRANZ ANTON HOFFMEISTER | 1754 — 1812 | VIOLA CONCERTO in D MAJO

,FRANZ LISZT | 1811 – 1886 | 200th Birthday Celebration

,GIAN CARLO MENOTTI | 1911 – 2007 | Amahl and the Night Visitors 1951

,GIACOMO PUCCINI | 1858 — 1924 | Donde Lieta Usci, aria from LA BOHEME 1896

,MAURICE RAVEL | 1875 – 1937 | “Ma Mere L’Oye” (Mother Goose Suite) 1910

,ROBERT SCHUMANN | 1810 – 1856 | Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 1845

,RICHARD STRAUSS |1864 – 1949 | Der Rosenkavalier Suite (Rose Cavalier) 1910

,PETER ILITCH TCHAIKOVSKY | 1840 — 1893 | SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN D MINOR, OP. 17 1872 and 1880