HSO Orchestral Concerts -- 1999-2000 Season

Jed Gaylin, Music Director

Brian Stone, 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.



Saturday, October 23, 1999, 8:00 p.m. - "Contemporaries and Namesakes"

Overture from Les deux journées Luigi Cherubini
(1760-1842)

Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 57 Ludwig Spohr
(1784-1859)

I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Rondo - Alla Polacca

Elizabeth Ganter, Clarinet


--Intermission--


Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante con moto
III. Allegro
IV. Allegro


Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m.
with Prof. Vernon Lidtke,
JHU Department of History

Program notes




Saturday, December 4, 1999, 8:00 p.m. - "Landscapes"

Into the Dark and Darker Cold Mark Lanz Weiser
(libretto by Lia Purpura) (b. 1968)


Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Soprano


--Intermission--


Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70 Antonín Dvorák
(1841-1904)

I. Allegro maestoso
II. Poco adagio
III. Scherzo. Vivace - Poco meno mosso
IV. Finale. Allegro


Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m.
with composer Mark Lanz Weiser

Program notes




Sunday, March 5, 2000, 3:00 p.m. - "Spirit Worlds"

Overture to Hansel & Gretel Engelbert Humperdinck
(1854-1921)

Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 Jean Sibelius
(1865-1957)

I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio di molto
III. Allegro, ma non tanto

Qing Li, Violin


--Intermission--


Night on Bald Mountain Modest Mussorgsky
(1839-1881)

Mother Goose Suite (Ma mère l'Oye) Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)

I. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant
(Pavan of the Sleeping Beauty)
II. Petit Poucet
(Tom Thumb)
III. Laideronette, Impératrice des pagodes
(Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas)
IV. Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête
(Beauty and the Beast Converse)
V. Le jardin féerique
(The Fairy Garden)


Pre-concert lecture at 2:00 p.m.
with Jonathan Palevsky

Program notes




Saturday, April 29, 2000, 8:00 p.m. - "Russian Excursions"

Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10 Dmitri Shostakovitch
(1906-1975)

I. Allegretto - Allegro non troppo
II. Allegro
III. Lento
IV. Allegro molto


--Intermission--


Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky


(1840-1893)

I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso; Allegro con spirito
II. Andante simplice; Prestissimo; Tempo I
III. Allegro con fuoco

Jerry Wong, Piano


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

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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