1996-97 Season


Series I-Family Concert

Adolphus Hailstork: American Fanfare
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1

Series II

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Janacek: Sinfonietta
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
(Craig Sheppard, pianist)

Series III

Coleridge-Taylor: Danse Negre
Mozart: Concerto No. 5 for Violin, A Major, K. 218
(Brian Fox, Violinist)
Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Series IV

Zwillich: Celebration for Orchestra
Respighi: Pines of Rome
Walker: Lyric for Strings
Beethoven Symphony No. 7

 

1997-98 Season



Series I-Family Concert-World Music In Motion

Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
Biaocchi: African Hands (Concerto
for 4 Hand Drums and Orchestra)
(Ruben Alvarez, Percussionist)
Curiale: Gates of Gold (concerto for Er-Hu
And Orchestra) (Warren Chang, Er-Hu soloist)
Prokofiev: March from the Love of Three Oranges

Series II-Music From the Heart

Khatchaturian: Adagio of Sparticus and Phrygia from Sparticus Suite No. 2
Berlioz: Three Selections from Nuits d'été ( Hilary Burtt, Soprano)
Saint-Saens: "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice' from Samson & Deliah
(Hilary Burtt, Soprano)
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Joyce Gibb, Pianist)

*Series III-Bushell Competition Winner's Concert

J. Strauss: Radetzky March
Bruch: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Jeremiah Hong, Violinist)
Schumann: Concertstück for Horn Quartet and Orchestra (The American Horn Quartet)
Hanson: Symphony No. 2 "Romantic"

Series IV-Celebration!

Walton: Viola Concerto (Felicia McFall, Violist)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Copland: El Salon Mexico

Special Benefit Concert

Tour de Force! Vocal Jazz Quartet and SPO
(Cheryl Massey-Peters,Frances King, David Kirk Blackham, James Caddell and David Duval, Arranger/Pianist)
David Duval: Overture
Rodgers & Hammerstein: My Favorite Things, Bali Ha'I,
When the Children are Asleep
Rodgers & Hart: My Romance,I Wish I Were In Love Again,
You Took Advantage of Me, Everything I've Got
Lerner & Lowe: They Call The Wind Maria
Irving Berlin: I Love A Piano, Play A Simple Melody
Irving Berlin/Rodgers & Hammerstein: They Say It's Wonderful.
I have Dreamed
Cole Porter
It's Allright with Me, Begin the Beguine
Let's Do It
George & Ira Gershwin: How Long Has This Been going On?,
Bess, You is My Woman, they All Laughed, Let's Call The
Whole Thing Off
Jule Styne: together Where ever We Go, If you Hadn't, But You Did
Frank Losser: Baby It's cold Outside, Rumble, Rumble, Rumble,
Coffee Break
Harold Arlen: I Never Has Seen Snow,Ac-cent-u-ate The Positive,
Get Happy
Kurt Weil: Lonely House
Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II: Somebody Wants To Go To Sleep,
In the Heart Of The Dark, Make believe, Can't Help Lovin' That Man,
Ol' Man River
George & Ira Gershwin: I Got Rhythm, Fascinatin' Rhythm


1998-99 Season

 

Series I-Family Concert-World Music In Motion

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Janice Giteck: Tree
Tubin: Sinfonietta on Estonian Motifs

Special Holiday Festival and Sing-Along Concert

Holst: 'Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity' from The Planets
Zeitler: Fantasia on Greenseeves, arr. Zeitler, (Glass Armonicist)
Mark Petering: The Tomten and the Fox for Narrator, Child Actors and Singer
(Rebekkah Hilgraves, Soprano, Narrator and Child Actors, Alternative School #1, Seattle)
Audience Sing Along Christmas Carol Medely (Sealth High School Choir, Seattle)

Series II-Music from the Heart

Villa -Lobos: Bachianas Brasileras No. 5 "Aria" (Anne Tedards, Soprano, SPO Cellos)
Still: Songs of Separation (Anne Tedards, Soprano)
Delibes: "Flower Duet" from Lakmé, Anne Tedards,and Rebekkah Hilgraves Sopranos
Zeitler: Soliloquy for Glass Armonica and Orchestra, William Zeitler, Glass Armonicist
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.77 (Art Tsaturian, Violinist)

Series III-Bushell Competition Winner's Concert

Walker: Lyric For Strings
Mozart: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, K. 191
(Oscar Locatelli, Bassoonist)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

Series IV-Celebration!
Couperin/Milhaud: La Sultane: Overture and Allegro
Mendelssohn: Sinfonia No. 2 in D for Strings
Poulenc: Gloria for Choir, Soprano and Orchestra
(The Esoterics, Amy Bills Soprano)

1999-2000 Season

 

Series I-Family Concert-World Music In Motion

Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Cimarosa: Concerto in C minor for Oboe & String Orchestra
(Anna Velzo, Oboist)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Thistle Theatre Puppets)

Series II-Music From the Heart

Tschaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture
Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915 (Rebekkah Hilgraves Soprano)
Rodrigo: Sones en la Giralda for Harp and Orchestra
(Joyce Rice, Harpist)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8

Series III-Bushell Competition Winner's Concert

Ulysses Kay: Concerto for Orchestra
Krommer: Concerto in E-flat Major for Two Clarinets and
Orchestra (Steven McComas & Mark Tomita, clarinets)
Franck: Symphony in D Minor

Series IV-Celebration!

Debussy: La Mer
Giteck: Tikkun/Mending (John Duykers, Tenor)

2000-01 Season

Series I-Family Concert-World Music In Motion

Bach/Stokowski : Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Coleridge-Taylor: Christmas Overture
Menotti: Amalh and the Night Visitors,
Introduction, March and Shepherd's Dance
(Lindbergh high School Choir, Renton, WA)
Schumann: Symphony No. 1, "Spring" First Movement
Schultz: Divertimento for Wind Octet (SPO Winds)
Rimsky-Korsakov-Schehrazade (Thistle Theatre Puppets)

Series II-Music From the Heart

(Guest Conductor, Donald Thulean)
Glazunov: Le Printemps, Op. 34
George McKay: Symphony for Seattle
Chausson: Poém for Violin and Orchestra (Kristina Cruz, Violinist)
Wagner ; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude from Act 3,
Procession of the Masters, Dance of the Apprentices

Series III-Go Local!

June Kirlin: Bittersweet for Double Bass and Orchestra, Chris Brunhaver, Bassist
Schumann; Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
(Meyoung Chung, Pianist)
Schumann: Symphony No. 1, "Spring"

Series IV-Celebration!

R. Strauss: The Four Last Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
(Rebekkah Hilgraves, Soprano)

 

2001-02 Season

Series I-Family Concert-World Music In Motion

Debussy: Fétes from Three Nocturnes
Theron Kirk: Prayers from the Ark for Soprano, Tenor, and
Baritone and Orchestra (Rachel Olson, Soprano, Jon Palmason, tenor, Glenn Guhr, Baritone)
Mozart: Overture from the Magic Flute
Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Chinook Middle School Drama Class,Bellevue, WA)

Series II-Music From the Heart

June Kirlin: Odyssey for Orchestra
Addinsell: Warsaw Piano Concerto
(Joyce Gibb, Pianist)
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor
(Joyce Gibb, Pianist)

Series III-Go Local!

Brahms: Tragic Overture
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
(Rebecca Kim, violinist)
Still: Symphony No. 2
Tchaikovsky; Rococo Variations for Cello and
Orchestra (Ching-Tzy Ko, Cellist)

Series IV-Celebration!

(Guest Conductor, Salvador Brotons)
Brotons: Symphony No. 2 "Resplendor"
Bizet; L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1, Adagietto and Carillon and
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2, (complete)
*Fauré: Pavane