2009-2010 - Musical Postcards

Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra

September 26 & 27, 2009

Giuseppe Verdi:

Tomaso Albinoni:

Nino Rota:

Felix Mendelssohn:

Ciao Bella

Overture to “Nabucco”

Adagio for Strings in g minor

Bassoon Concerto – Ibby Roberts,
bassoon

Symphony No. 4, Opus 90 “Italian”

November 7 & 8, 2009

Maurice Duruflé:

Claude Debussy:

Claude Debussy:

Vive la France

Requiem – with UVa’s University Singers
and Michael Slon, conductor

Danses Sacred and Profane – Anastasia
Jellison, harp

La Mer

February 13 & 14, 2010

Zoltán Kodály:

Frédéric Chopin:

Arvo Pärt:

Andrzej Panufnik:

Heartland of Europe

Galanta Dances

Piano Concerto No. 2 – Mimi Tung,
piano

Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

Sinfonia Sacra

March 27 & 28, 2010

Benjamin Britten:

Ralph Vaughan Williams:

Edward Elgar:

English Variations

Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
(Variations on a Theme of Purcell)

Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

Enigma Variations, Opus 36

April 24 & 25, 2010

Samuel Barber:

Judith Shatin:

Antonin Dvorák:

The New World

Essay No. 2 for Orchestra, Opus 17

Jefferson, In His Own Words (premiere)

Symphony No. 9 in e minor, Opus 95,
“From the New World”

Plus! (at Cabell Hall)

December 5 & 6, 2009

Family Holiday Concerts

The University Singers join the orchestra for this festive celebration of the holiday season.

Michael Slon, conductor

January 30, 2010

The Chamber Orchestra of Charlottesville

Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings – Joseph Gaines, tenor and Ian Zook, horn

Elgar: Serenade for Strings

Haydn: Symphony No. 104, “London”

Saturdays at 8:00pm / Sundays at 3:30pm / Programs and artists subject to change