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!

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
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
Donald Portnoy, conductor
Sponsored by Carole and Arthur Schreiber
Symphony in C Georges Bizet
Piano Concerto No. 4 Ludwig van Beethoven
Phillip Bush, piano
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
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




