Symphony of the Hills 2017-2018 Season Concerts
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Symphony of the HIlls
Concert 1 “Wild Wild West”
Celebrating America’s Frontier
October 12, 2017 7:30 PM
The Cowboys Overture – John Williams
Violin Concerto in D Major – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Grand Canyon Suite – Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé
Concert 2 “Gloria”
Celestial Holiday Music
December 7, 2017 7:30 PM
Christmas Festival – Leroy Anderson
Gloria – John Milford Rutter
Music from Handel’s Messiah – Georg Friedrich Händel
Polonaise from Christmas Eve Suite – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
American Spiritual Festival – arr: Steven L. Rosenhaus
Hamabdil – Granville Ransome Bantock
Hava Nagilah – arr: Kreger
A Holly Jolly Sing-Along – James Stephenson
Concert 3 “The Magic of Disney”
Music from the Magic Kingdom
January 6, 2018 7:30 PM
(including music from Mary Poppins)
Concert 4 “Old, New, Borrowed, Blue”
A Cool Musical Blend – Featuring the Hill Country Youth Orchestra
February 22, 2018 7:30 PM
Hill Country Youth Orchestra, Guest Artists
Rhapsody in Blue – George Gershwin
Naoko Takao, guest piano soloist
Pictures at an Exhibition – Modest Mussorgsky
Concert 5 “Strike Up the Band”
The Symphony on Parade
April 26, 2018 7:30 PM
Strike Up the Band Overture – George Gershwin
Suite from Karelia – Jean Sibelius
Trumpeter’s Lullaby – Leroy Anderson
George Eychner, Soloist
Circus Polka: for a Young Elephant – Igor Stavinsky
The Irish Dragoon, Circus Galop – John Phillip Sousa
Marche Slave – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Seventy Six Trombones, from The Music Man – Meredith Willson
Bugler’s Holiday – Leroy Anderson
A Salute to the Big Bands – Calvin Custer, arr.
Festive Overture – Dmitri Shostakovich
