HSO Orchestral Concerts -- 1998-1999 Season

Jed Gaylin, Music Director

Alexander Mickelthwate, Assistant Conductor


Orchestral concerts are performed in Shriver Hall on the Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. Pre-concert lectures take place in the Clipper Room on the second floor of Shriver Hall.



Friday, September 11, 1998, 7:30 p.m. - Benefit Concert for Operation Smile

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 Antonín Dvorák
(1841-1904)

I. Allegro
II. Adagio ma non troppo
III. Finale: Allegro moderato

Bonnie Thron, Violoncello


--Intermission--

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Sergei Rachmaninoff
(1873-1943)

I. Moderato
II. Adagio sostenuto
III. Allegro scherzando

Linda Pio-Roda, Piano




Saturday, October 24, 1998, 8:00 p.m. - "Art Creates Artists"

Art Creates Artists Samuel Adler
(b. 1928)

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893)

I. Allegro moderato
II. Canzonetta: Andante
III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo

Xiao-po Fei, Violin

--Intermission--

Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-1847)

I. Allegro vivace
II. Andante con moto
III. Con moto moderato
IV. Saltarello presto


Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m.
with Max Derrickson

Program notes



Saturday, December 5, 1998, 8:00 p.m. - "Opus Opera!"

Overture to Nabucco Giuseppe Verdi
(1813-1901)

Act I from La Traviata Giuseppe Verdi
(1813-1901)

Carla del Villaggio, Soprano
Richard Crawley, Tenor

Act II, Scene I and first part of Scene II from Aida Giuseppe Verdi
(1813-1901)

Margot Bos Stambler, Soprano
Fenlon Lamb, Mezzo-Soprano


Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m.
with Jonathan Palevsky

Program notes



Sunday, March 7, 1999, 3:00 p.m. - "Spring Stirrings"

Two Elegiac Melodies Edvard Grieg
(1843-1907)

Trittico Botticelliano Ottorino Resphigi
(1879-1936)

I. La Primavera
II. L'Adorazione dei Magi
III. La Nascita di Venere

--Intermission--

Petrouchka (1947 Version) Igor Stravinsky
(1898-1937)

Tableau I: Shrovetide Fair
Tableau II: In Petrushka's Room
Tableau III: In the Moor's Room
Tableau IV: The Shrovetide Fair (Evening)


Pre-concert lecture at 2:00 p.m.
with Charles Dempsey, Ph.D.,
JHU Department of Art History

Program notes



Saturday, May 1, 1999, 8:00 p.m. - "Symphony Firsts"

Symphony No. 1 ("City Strains") Russell Steinberg




--Intermission--

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Johannes Brahms


(1833-1897)

I. Un poco sostenuto; Allegro
II. Andante sostenuto
III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso
IV. Adagio; Allegro non troppo


Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m.
with Russell Steinberg

Program notes


Hopkins Symphony Orchestra programs are made possible by a generous grant from
The Maryland State Arts Council.
Soloists are underwritten by the Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust.


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