EP DRAFT SPOKANE SYMPHONY SEASON 2011-12 (February 7, 2011)

SPOKANE SYMPHONY SEASON 2011-12

Sept. 17-18, 2011 Classics 1 Fantastique Opening Eckart Preu, conductor Jon Kimura Parker, piano Enesco Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 Grieg Piano concerto Berlioz Symphony Fantastique

Oct. 1-2, 2011 Classics 2 Tango and Other Human Passions Eckart Preu, conductor Tim Fain, violin Golijov "Last Round" Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 Beethoven Symphony No. 6

Oct. 22-23, 2011 Classics 3 Brahms Requiem – Stirring thr Soul Eckart Preu, conductor Spokane Symphony Chorale Part Cantus in Memoriam of B. Britten Bach Cantata No.192 (Nun danket all Gott) Brahms Requiem

Nov. 19-20, 2011 Classics 4 Dvorak’s Dramatic Concerto Eckart Preu, conductor Ralph Kirshbaum, cello Kodaly Galanta Dances Dvorak Cello Concerto Brahms Symphony No. 1

Jan. 28-29, 2012` Classics 5 Heroes and Legends Morihiko Nakahara, conductor Martina Filjak, piano Rossini William Tell overture Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20, D Minor Beethoven Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”

Feb. 11-12. 2012 Classics 6 Brilliance and Virtuosity Eckart Preu, conductor Mateusz Wolski, violin Bloch Three Jewish Poems Korngold Violin Concerto Stravinsky Petrushka (1947)

Feb. 25-26, 2012 Classics 7 Sleeping Beauty and Other Tales Danail Rachev, guest conductor Stravinsky Fairy's Kiss-divertimento Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Suite Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla Shostakovich Symphony No. 9

March 24-25, 2012 Classics 8 Russian Drama Eckart Preu, conductor Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3 Sibelius Symphony No. 7 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1

April 14-15, 2012 Classics 9 Percussion and Pathetique Eckart Preu, conductor Nebojsa Zivkovic, percussion Smetana “Má vlast”: “From Bohemia’s meadows and forests” Zivkovic Marimba concerto No. 2 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6

May 5-6, 2012 Classics 10 Don Quixote – A Grand Finale Eckart Preu, conductor Joshua Roman, cello de Falla Three-cornered Hat excerpts from Suites 1+2 Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations Strauss Don Quixote Casual Classics

Sept. 23, 2011 Casual Classics 1 Beethoven’s Facebook Eckart Preu, conductor Bach Suite No. 1, First movement Haydn Symphony No. 38 Rossini L’Italiana in Algeri Beethoven Prometheus Overture

Beethoven Symphony No. 2

March 9, 2012 Casual Classics 2 Mozart’s Facebook Eckart Preu, conductor Pichl Symphony in C major, Myslivecek Overture no. 2 in A Mozart Symphony no. 34 Mozart Canon a4 on Bona nox, bist a rechta Ox, Mozart Mass, K. 167 “Trinity”

April 20, 2012 Casual Classics 3 Schubert’s Facebook Morihiko Nakahara, conductor Schubert Overture in Italian Style in D Major Mendelssohn The Fair Melusina, Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale Schubert Symphony No. 4 in C minor, "Tragic"

SuperPops

October 15, 2011 Pops 1 Frank Sinatra Jr. – Sinatra Sings Sinatra November 12, 2011 Pops 2 Richie Cole & Five by Design – Cool Swingin’ December 17/18, 2011 Pops 3 Holiday Pops – A Holiday Celebration February 4, 2012 Pops 4 Riders in the Sky – America’s Favorite Cowboys March 17, 2012 Pops 5 Ann Hampton Callaway - Broadway’s Greatest Gifts by an American Diva April 28, 2012 Pops 6 A Night to Remember – Music from the Titanic

Chamber Soirees at the Davenport Hotel October 11 & 12, 2011 February 14 & 15, 2012 May 8 & 9, 2012

Nutcracker Dec. 2-4. 2011 Spokane Symphony and State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara, Calif. in Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox Friday 7:30 p.m. Saturday 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Special Dec. 31, 2011 Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony