11/1: “MACABRE MASTERWORKS”
BACH (arr. H.J. WOOD): Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Arturo Toscanini, conductor
MUSSORGSKY/
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Night on Bald Mountain
Alan Gilbert, conductor
GOUNOD: Ballet Music from Faust
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique: “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath”
Alan Gilbert, conductor
LISZT: A Faust Symphony
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Charles Bressler, tenor
GRIEG: “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
11/8: “WHEN GREAT COMPOSERS CONDUCT”
MILHAUD: Suite française, Op. 248 (arr. for orchestra)
Darius Milhaud, conductor
STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite (1945)
Igor Stravinsky, conductor
HINDEMITH: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d:
Requiem for Those We Love
Paul Hindemith, conductor
Louise Parker, alto
George London, bass
Schola Cantorum
RODGERS: The Carousel Waltz
Richard Rodgers, conductor
11/15
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
RZEWSKI: The People United Will Never Be Defeated
(World Premiere of orchestral version–New York Philharmonic Commission)
11/22
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Anthony McGill, clarinet
RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales
NIELSEN: Clarinet Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY: Selections from “Swan Lake”
11/29
VIVALDI: Concerto for Piccolo, Strings, and Cembalo in C, RV 444
Mindy Kaufmann, piccolo
Zubin Mehta, conductor
HINDEMITH: Symphony, “Mathis der Maler”
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
MOZART: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in B-flat, K. 191
Judith LeClair, bassoon
Christopher Hogwood, conductor
PAINE: Symphony No. 2 in A, Op. 34, “In Spring”
Zubin Mehta, conductor