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Featured LP

Mendelssohn: 1982-83

featuring two pieces by Mendelssohn performed with
Lynn Chang '75, violin and the Radcliffe Choral Society
under the direction of Samuel Wong '84

+ Violin Concerto in E Minor
+ Overture to a Midsummer Night's Dream

Note the format of this recording is an LP, not a CD!

1999-00 Season

Benjamin Rous '00, Music Director

October 29, 1999

featuring Albert Kim '01 and Jeff Juan Choque, piano

+ Beethoven Overture to Coriolan, Op. 62
+ Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat, K. 365
+ Mendelssohn Music from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
+ Brahms Intermezzo

December 11, 1999

+ Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
+ Stravinsky Octet for Wind Instruments
+ Barber Adagio for Strings
+ Haydn Symphony No. 101 in D Major

March 10, 2000

featuring Dimitri Dover '00, piano
and Jennifer Caine '01, violin

+ Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess
+ Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D
+ Chausson Poème
+ Mozart Symphony No. 40 in g

2000-01 Season

Grace Kao '01, Music Director

October 28, 2000

+ Britten Simple Symphony
+ Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56
+ Bartok Romanian Folk Dances
+ Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B flat, Op. 60

March 9, 2001

+ Mendelssohn Overture, "The Hebrides"
+ Vaughan Williams Flos Campi
+ Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C, "Jupiter"

April 21, 2001

featuring Sarah Darling '02, viola
and Lembit Beecher '02, Music Director-Elect

+ Salvage Serenade No. 2, "The White Girl"
+ Beethoven Overture to "Egmont," Op. 84
+ Dvorak Symphony No. 8 in G

2001-02 Season

Lembit Beecher '02, Music Director

October 13, 2001

featuring Jihwan Kim '02, piano

+ Revueltas Homenaje a Frederico Garcia Lorca
+ Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in c, K. 491
+ Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C

December 1, 2001

featuring Hazel Davis '03, horn
John McMunn '04, tenor
and Ishan Bhabha '04, conductor

+ Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
+ Baillett The Unanswered Question
+ Weil Symphony No. 2; Sostenuto - Allegro molto
+ Wagner Siegfried Idyll

April 26, 2002

featuring music of Brad Baillet '05
winner of the 2001-02 Composition Competition
with Sonya Chung '03, violin
Anica Timberlake, viola
Nicholas Finch, cello
and Sean Henry Ryan '03, Music Director-Elect

+ Sibelius Valse Triste
+ Baillett Kaleidescope Night
+ Beethoven Overture to "Leonore" No. 2
+ Beecher Lembit's Piece
+ Haydn Symphony No. 44,"Trauer"

2002-03 Season

Sean Henry Ryan '03 , Music Director

December 13, 2002

featuring Catherine Barrett, harp

+ Ginastera Fanfare for Four Trumpets in C
+ Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte
+ Mozart Symphony No. 39 in E-flat
+ Ravel Introduction and Allegro
+ Ginastera Variaciones Concertantes

March 7, 2003

featuring Katherine Chen '06, piano
winner of the 2002-03 Concerto Competition

+ Chopin Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in e minor
+ Copland Appalachian Spring
+ Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in c, Op. 67

April 25, 2003

featuring music of Ben Green '06
winner of the 2002-03 Composition Competition
and Kamala Soparkar, mezzo-soprano

+ Green Azura Rising: Overture for Orchestra
+ Ligeti Ramifications for string orchestra
+ Barber Adagio for Strings
+ Stravinsky Suite No. 1 for small orchestra
+ de Falla El Amor Brujo