DANCE MIX
TOPEKA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DANCE MIX THE 2O21-2O22 SEASON TOPEKA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THE 2O21-2O22 SEASON ARTURO MARQUEZ RACHEL LEE PRIDAY Danzon No. 2 VIOLIN
PABLO SARASATE Carmen Fantasy DANCE WITH RACHEL LEE PRIDAY, VIOLIN PABLO SARASATE Zigeunerweisen MIX WITH RACHEL LEE PRIDAY, VIOLIN IGOR STRAVINSKY WE’RE BACK IN WHITE CONCERT HALL AND YOUR (1945) TOPEKA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IS READY TO DANCE! Firebird After an unusual year of limited audiences, smaller orchestras, and KYLE WILEY PICKETT MUSIC DIRECTOR maybe a lot of time alone on our couches or in front of our screens, & CONDUCTOR it’s time to get back together, get on our feet, and dance! Dance is universal and is an important part of many celebrations and social gatherings. What better way to celebrate a year when we are all gathering again than with a collection of dances from around the world? HOMECOMING This season is full of energetic and upbeat music that was either DANCE written for or inspired by dance, and we know it’s going to have us all tapping our toes and itching to dance along. We’ll be treating Don’t miss the Homecoming Dance! our audiences to an eclectic orchestral Dance Mix of music from a Our opening night of the season will be diverse group of composers. We’ll be playing a variety of selections a joyful celebration of thrilling dance from very traditional classical ballet like Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and rhythms to usher in our new year. There will Johann Strauss’s Voices of Spring Waltz, to less familiar but just as be orchestral fireworks with Stravinsky’s Firebird ballet dance-able pieces like Summerland by William Grant Still and the score and you’ll have a hard time not dancing along show-stopping Danzon No. 2 by Arturo Marquez. With pieces ranging to Marquez’s Danzon No. 2. We will also feature a true from dramatic Flamenco romances to elegant French court minuets, star soloist — virtuoso violinist Rachel Lee Priday will to Cuban and Russian and African and Italian dances, we will hear thrill you with sultry, ecstatic, and spectacular dances dance styles from across many cultures and see them emerge in for violin and orchestra. thrilling symphonic forms.
We look forward to seeing you at the dance!
—KYLE WILEY PICKETT OCTOBER 2, 2021 ANNA SHELEST SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PIANO Petite Suite de concert
ANTONIN DVORAK Slavonic Dances, Op.46
CLARA SCHUMANN Piano Concerto PYOTR IIYICH TCHAIKOVSKY WITH ANNA SHELEST, PIANO Nutcracker Selections WITH THE K-STATE TAP DANCE ENSEMBLE CECILE CHAMINADE Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra Other holiday favorites WITH ANNA SHELEST, PIANO
FANCY EN FOOTWORK POINTE
Don’t look at your feet! Enjoy an eclectic evening We’ll be right en pointe for the holiday season with of orchestral and piano show-stoppers, music from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. This ballet including Dvorak’s high-spirited Slavonic has become a beloved part of the season and it Dances and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lively is especially thrilling to hear this music played by Petite Suite de concert. We also welcome to our stage a full symphony orchestra. Our Holiday concert for the first time the wonderful pianist Anna Shelest, is always one of our biggest hits of the season, who will play two amazing and neglected works and this year will be no exception! Get your tickets for piano and orchestra — Clara Schumann’s Piano early so you won’t miss your seasonal favorites Concerto and Cecile Chaminade’s Concert Piece for and a return of our audience carol sing! Piano and Orchestra.
NOVEMBER 13, 2021 DECEMBER 1, 2021 GABRIELLA LENA FRANK AMY BEACH Coqueteos — from Leyendas Bal Masque
WILLIAM GRANT STILL DAVID BRIGGS Summerland Organ Concerto
BENJAMIN BRITTEN MAURICE RAVEL Simple Symphony Daphnis and Chloe
ANTONIN DVORAK Serenade for Winds
SENTIMENTAL PAS SARABANDE DE DEUX
We’ll start off 2022 with an intimate concert of The Pas de Deux is a grand duet — a love story romantic and soulful dances, including Gabriella in ballet form — and at this concert we present the Lena Frank’s flirtatiousConqesteos from Leyendas epic love story of Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe. and William Grant Still’s transcendent and Gorgeous and lush, this orchestral masterpiece enchanting Summerland. The Topeka Symphony’s tells an impressionistic story. We are also excited wind section will get a chance in the spotlight to present American composer Amy Beach’s with Dvorak’s Serenade for Winds, and the string courtly and elegant Bal Masque for the first time in section is featured in Benjamin Britten’s playful Topeka. Our soloist David Briggs is one of the Simple Symphony, full of dance-motifs and charm. preeminent organists of our time, and we are pleased to feature him playing his own organ concerto on the magnificent organ in White Concert Hall.
JANUARY 22, 2022 FEBRUARY 12, 2022 JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. Voices of Spring Waltz
Young Artist Competition Winner
GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 1 — The Titan
DANCE AROUND,AROUND, FLAMENCO! AN EVENING OF FLAMENCO DANCE AROUND WITH ENSEMBLE IBERICA
At our final masterworks concert of the year, we bring We will finish our season of dance Europe’s many dance traditions together. You’ll hear music with a Spanish flourish! a traditional elegant, swirling Viennese Waltz, by Join us for a thrilling evening Johann Strauss, Jr., who was, of course, the of Flamenco music with Kansas “Waltz King.” You’ll enjoy the City’s own Flamenco group exciting performance of our Ensemble Iberica. Hear the Young Artist Competition rhythms and melodies of Spain winner. We conclude our concert with Mahler’s epic First Symphony, as the orchestra is joined by guitar, percussion, which includes foot-stomping dances and yodeling that Mahler had and vocals. Watch as the drama of the Flamenco already put to good use in one of his first songs,Hans und Grete. dance is brought to our stage. It will be a great “Dance around, around!” the song goes. “Let whoever is happy way to cap a season of Dance Mix! weave in and out! Let whoever has cares find his way home.”
APRIL 9, 2022 MAY 14, 2022 TICKET OPTIONS WHITE CONCERT HALL ORDER FORM STAGE You can also order tickets online at www.topekasymphony.org
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SYMPHONY SUPPERS Enjoy a pre-concert dinner with your friends on Oct. 2, Nov. 13, Jan. 22, Feb. 12, Apr. 9, and May 14. Maestro Pickett will present “Concert Conversations” at 6:30 pm.
All Symphony Suppers will be in the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center with the exception of the October 2nd supper which will be in Washburn’s Memorial Union. Please arrive for dinner by 5:30 p.m. Seating for the Concert Conversations begins at 6:15 p.m. $33.00 per person For reservations or more information, contact the Symphony office at 232-2032 or visit www.topekasymphony.org
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