Playfully Yours
November 13, 7:30pm
Faith Presbyterian Church, Cape Coral
Featuring Concertmaster Reiko Niiya
This program features Rossini's comedic overture La scala di seta “The Silken Ladder," Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony with its light-hearted passages and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. Reiko Niiya's solo completes our fanciful journey as we spotlight one of thegreatest and most well-known violin concertos of the Romantic era.
Rossini: Overture to ‘The Silken Ladder’
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Reiko Niiya,violin)
Beethoven: Symphony # 8
Bach & More
March 19, 7:30pm
The Village Church at Shell Point, Fort Myers
Featuring Dione Chandler, Principal Oboe, and SWFL Symphony Chamber Chorus
Rich in soaring strings, this concert features two celebrated Bach works (from father and son), a dazzling oboe solo and Schubert’s Mass in G with the angelic voices of theSymphony Chamber Chorus. This is music at its best -- varied, supremely crafted and beautiful in every note.
Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
JS Bach: Oboe Concerto in G minor (Dione Chandler, oboe)
CPE Bach: Sinfonia
Schubert: Mass in G (with the Chamber Chorus and guests)
The Glory of Spring
April 9, 7:30pm
Faith Presbyterian Church, Cape Coral
Featuring Gene Berger, Principal Horn
Spring and all its glory is celebrated in this concert featuring music we simply love. It captures a walk in the Alps on a peaceful early morning, the beauty of the Appalachians and the spell binding magic of the rain. Mozart’s irrepressible Horn Concerto features Gene Berger, principal Horn. Embrace, celebrate and become enchanted as we welcome spring!
Honnegger: Pastoral d’ ete
Mozart: Horn Concerto # 2 (Gene Berger, principal French horn) Takemitsu: Rain Coming
Copland: Appalachian Spring: Suite (original instrumentation)
Pre-concert reception at Faith Presbyterian Church's Faith Center beginning at 6:30pm
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