As we enter into our seventh season - our "35th Anniversary Season" - we welcome you to join us - click the buttons below to be directed to the concert pages - featuring photos, links and biographies of the guest artists that we will feature in our 2011-2012 season - we know that you will enjoy it!



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Donald Portnoy, conductor
Sarah Moser, soprano
Timothy Shepard, organ
Wanda Lu Paxton, narrator
Dean St. Marie, narrator

Today's concert is in loving memory of Ann Bryant Pickelsimer
by/from Lynn, Charles III, Beth, Whitney, Natalie, Wilson, and Alex

All of today’s events have been made possible in part by a grant from the Transylvania County Sesquicentennial Partnership Grant program

Presentation of Colors

Star Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key

American Salute Morton Gould

I Know Where I’m Goin’ Scottish Folksong
Black is the Color of my True Love’s Hair Southern Appalachian Folksong
I Gave my Love a Cherry (The Riddle Song) Kentucky Mountains Folksong
featuring Ms. Moser

John Henry Aaron Copland

Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (Chit-Chat Polka), Op. 214 Johann Strauss II

Fiddle-Faddle Leroy Anderson

America the Beautiful Samuel A. Ward
Audience


Intermission

Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78 “Organ Symphony” Camille Saint-Saens
featuring Mr. Shepard



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Donald Portnoy, conductor

Sponsored by James Robertson


Overture to Rosamunde Franz Schubert

The Telephone (L'Amour A Trois): Gian Carlo Menotti
Diana Amos, soprano
Jacob Will, baritone

Violin Concerto “The Red Violin” John Corigliano
Michael Ludwig, violin



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Donald Portnoy, conductor

Sponsored by Carole and Arthur Schreiber

Symphony in C Georges Bizet

Piano Concerto No. 4 Ludwig van Beethoven
Phillip Bush, piano

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Donald Portnoy, conductor

Sponsored by Addie Blake

Variations on a Theme by Haydn Johannes Brahms

Air and Scherzo Henry Cowell
Clifford Leaman, alto saxophone

Le tombeau de Couperin Maurice Ravel

Fantasia Heitor Villa-Lobos
Clifford Leaman, soprano saxophone


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Donald Portnoy, conductor

Sponsored by Renee Bresler

The Firebird Igor Stravinsky

Porgy and Bess Concert Version George Gershwin
Lori Hicks, soprano
Tommy Watson, baritone
Claflin University Concert Choir