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LSO 2008-2009 Season

Winter 2009 Concert

Sunday, January 11, 2009, 4:00 pm, Hill Auditorium
Mark Latham, Music Director and Conductor

Introduction by James Shayman, M.D.
U-M Associate Vice President for Research, Health Sciences
Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology, Medical School

Promenade Overture – John Corigliano
Variations on a Theme by Haydn – Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 12 in E Major – Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 12 in D Minor (The Year 1917) – Dmitri Shostakovich

Spring 2009 Concert

Date, time and location to be announced in fall 2008.

Past Concerts

LSO REPERTOIRE

May 2008 Asclepius by Michael Daugherty, Suite from "Billy the Kid” by Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, and Ottorino Respighi's Pines of Rome and Fountains of Rome. Clinton Smith, music director

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January 08 – Ludwig van Beethoven’s Egmont OvertureAllegro non troppo from Symphonie Espagnole by Edouard Lalo, featuring concerto competition winner Trina Stoneham, and Gustav Holst's The Planets, Op. 32. Clinton Smith, music director

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April 2007 – Benefit for C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the Ronald McDonald House Within a Hospital. Fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, Franz von Suppe’s Poet and Peasant Overture, two pieces with guest soloist 13-year-old Jourdan Urbach: Violin Concerto No. 5, Op. 37 by Henri Vieuxtemps, Carmen Fantasie by Pablo de Sarasate. Also Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg, and William Tell Overture by Giacchino Rossini. Clinton Smith, music director

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January 2007Russian Easter Overture by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, featuring soloist Clinton Smith, Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, op. 78 ("Organ"). Clinton Smith, music director

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May 2006 – Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man,” Joan Tower’s “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1” , Tommaso Vitali’s Chaconne in G minor for violin, organ and strings, featuring Concerto Competition winner Tugsu Armstrong, and Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 74, by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. John Goodell, music director

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January 2006"An Orkney Wedding, with sunrise” by Peter Maxwell Davies, featuring bagpipe soloist Ewan MacPherson, “A Christmas Dance (Sir Roger de Coverly)” by Frank Bridge, and Symphony No. 3, op. 56 by Felix Mendelssohn. John Goodell, music director.

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May 2005 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's overture from The Magic Flute, Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat, first movement featuring concerto Competition co-winner Matt Shevrin, Violin Concerto, second movement by Jean Sibelius, featuring Concerto Competition co-winner Giant Lin, Finlandia by Sibelius, and two works by Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring, and El Salon Mexico. John Goodell, music director

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January 2005 –  Symphony No. 29 in A Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Symphony No. 1, “Titan,” by Gustav Mahler. John Goodell, music director

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May 2004Consecration of the House (Die Weihe des Hauses) by Beethoven, Jean Sibelius' Violin Concerto, first movement, featuring Concerto Competition winner Kent Rice, Mussorgsky's “Pictures at an Exhibition,” arranged by Ravel. Laura Jackson, music director

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January 2004 – Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Mozart’s Symphony No. 25, and Mikhail Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture. Laura Jackson, music director

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April 2003 – Aaron Copland's Ceremonial Fanfare, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Maurice Ravel's Pavane pour une infant defunte, and Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture to "Romeo and Juliet" . Laura Jackson, music director

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January 2003Concert suite from “Idomeneo” by Mozart, Polovetsian Dances from “Prince Igor” by Alexander Borodin, Danse Macabre by Camille Saint Saens and the Firebird Suite 1919 by Igor Stravinsky. Laura Jackson, music director

April 2002 – Samuel Barber's Canzonetta for Oboe and Strings, featuring Concerto Competition winner Doug Weaver; Aaron Copland's Letter from Home; Leonard Bernstein's Overture to "Candide", and Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 2, Op.73. Mitchell Williams, Music Director

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January 2002Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz, the suite Pelleas et Melisande by Gabriel Faure, and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. Mitchell Williams, Music Director

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May 2001Overture to the Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini, Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, and the Piano Concerto in F Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with special guest artist Louis Nagel. Mitchell Williams, Music Director

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January 2001 (LSO premiere) –  Johannes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Claude Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. Mitchell Williams, Music Director

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