PAST PROGRAMS
SEASON 2022-23
Program: LUMINOSITY
TORKE Bright Blue Music
MUSGRAVE Green
CLYNE Color Field
BLISS Colour Symphony, with Guest Visual Artist, Heidi Lanino, painting live
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, March 18 2023
Program: CONCERT OF CONCERTOS with MOXART
MOZART Concerto for Two Pianos (Frank Siegel, Stan Sisskin)
STRAUSS Burleske (Alan Murray)
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 1 (Alan Murray)
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 (June Wu)
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, February 18 2023
Program: O NIGHT DIVINE (Holiday Pops)
TCHAIKOVSKY Nutcracker Suite (with dancers)
Plus an array of beloved holiday classics
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, December 10 2023
Program: AFTER THE RAIN
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6
WEIR The Welcome Arrival of Rain
THEOFANIDIS Rainbow Body
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, September 10 2022
SEASON 2021-22
Program: THE SULTANS OF SWING (Summer Pops)
A cavalcade of swing classics from the catalogues of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, featuring the original studio arrangements performed by guest vocalists Alexis Cole and Michael Andrew
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra plus guest Jazz artists, July 23 2022
Program: DAWN OF FREEDOM - July 4th Symphony Picnic
STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra (opening)
MOZART Abduction from the Seraglio Overture
HOLST Jupiter, from The Planets
VERDI Nabucco Overture
MUSSORGSKY The Great Gate of Kiev, from Pictures at a Exhibition
COPLAND A Lincoln Portrait (Frank Shiner, narrator)
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, July 2 2022
Program: THE SWAN BECOMES THE SUN
NIELSEN Helios Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake Suite
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, June 25 2022
Program: THE LITTLE THINGS
LIADOV Eight Russian Folksongs
BACH-STOKOWSKI Passacaglia in C Minor
DEBUSSY Petite Suite (arr. Büsser)
STILL From the Black Belt, Seven Little Pieces
COPLAND Red Pony Suite
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, May 7 2022
Program: THE LONG SHADOW
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, March 26 2022
Program: CELEBRACIÓN
VILLA-LOBOS Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9
REVUELTAS Janitzio
GARDEL Por Una Cabeza (arr. John Williams)
ROMERO Fuga con pajarillo
GINASTERA Estancia Suite
SIERRA Alegría
PIAZZOLLA Obliviion
PIAZZOLLA Libertango
MÁRQUEZ Danzón No. 2
Orchestra914, March 20 2022
Program: CONCERT OF CONCERTOS with MOXART
DVOŘÁK Piano Concerto (Alan Murray)
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 (Mo Xu)
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, February 26 2022
Program: ALL IS BRIGHT (Holiday Pops)
An array of beloved holiday classics
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, December 10 2021
Program: DEATH & TRANSFIGURATION
SCHUBERT Death and the Maiden (arr. Mahler)
SCHOENBERG Transfigured Night
Orchestra914, November 20 2021
Program: METAMORPHOSIS
MAZZOLI River Rouge Transfiguration
STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
WAGNER Lohengrin Prelude to Act 1
Lohengrin Prelude to Act 3
TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty Suite
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, September 11 2021
SEASON 2019-20
Program: AND GLORY SHONE AROUND (Holiday Pops)
HANDEL Highlights from Messiah, featuring chorus and guest artists
Plus an array of beloved holiday classics
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, December 14 2019
Program: CORE OF MY HEART
MAIELLO Shelter (World premiere, dedicated to Russell Ger and the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra)
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
SMETANA Vltava
ELGAR Enigma Variations
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, September 14 2019
SEASON 2018-19
Program: BROADWAY IN YOUR BACKYARD (Summer Pops)
A selection of Broadway favorites from Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Miserables, Oklahoma!, Phantom, Rent, The Sound of Music, and more, featuring various guest artists
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, July 27 2019
Program: REVOLUTIONS - July 4th Symphony Picnic
VERDI La Forza del Destino Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, 1st movement ‘Eroica’
STRAVINSKY Firebird Danse Inferale & Finale
BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
MOZART Marriage of Figaro Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Marche Slave
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, July 4 2019
Program: THE TRAVELER & THE TITAN
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Songs of Travel (Kyle Pfortmiller, baritone)
MAHLER Songs of a Wayfarer (Kyle Pfortmiller, baritone)
MAHLER Symphony No. 1, ‘Titan’
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, June 22 2019
Program: REDEMPTION
SHOSTAKOVICH Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District Suite
WAGNER Tristan and Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, May 11 2019
Program: THREADING STRANDS
STEPHENSON Printemps
GRAINGER Irish Tune from County Derry
PÄRT Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on Themes of Thomas Tallis
RAUTAVAARA Suite for Strings
GRIEG Holberg Suite
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, February 16 2019
Program: ALL IS BRIGHT (Holiday Pops)
An array of beloved holiday classics
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, December 14 2018
Program: BIRTH TO EARTH (A Triple Centenary)
DEBUSSY Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun
HOLST Mars, The Bringer of War, from The Planets
BUTTERWORTH The Banks of Green Willow
BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms, featuring the West Point Glee Club and Douglas Dodson, countertenor
West Side Story Symphonic Dances
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, October 6 2018