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Fall 2007 Performance

Monday. October 15th: 7pm- Warm Heath Village, Karr Activity Center

Friday. October 26th: 8pm- Squires Recital Salon

This season's repertoire:

Christoph Graupner: Entrata in F Minor (GWV 468)
Felix Mendessohn:String Sinfonia in C minor
Tracey Rush: Fantasia in F
Sean O'Boyle: Cannon for Strings
John Howell: Suite in Five Moods
W. A. MozartConcerto for Clarinet (25min) 2Fl, 2Bn, 2Hn

Guest soloist: Bruce McGravey

Recent and Past Performances

Spring 2007

Monday. April 30th: 7pm- Warm Heath Village, Karr Activity Center
Friday, May 4th: 8pm-Squires Rectial Salon

Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite
Christoph Willibald Gluck:Overture to Iphigenie in Aulis
Gluck: Minuet & Dance from Orfeo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonie Concertante
Mozart: Andante in C
Jean Sibelius: Peleas et Melisande Suite

Fall 2006

October:Warm Hearth Concert
Saturday, October 28th: 7:30pm- Newport Recreation Center
Sunday, October 29th: 8pm- Squires Recital Salon
Blacksburg Holiday Concert
Holiday concert, Pearisburg Presbyterian Church

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: "Elegie for Strings" (strings)
Sir Edward Elgar: "Chanson de nuit" (w/flute, oboe,2 clar in A, bsn, 2 horns in E)
Sir Edward elgar: "Chanson de matin"(w/flute, oboe,2 clar in A,bsn,2 horns in F)
Franz Joseph Haydn: "Concerto for Cello in C Major" (w/2 oboes, 2 horns in C)
JS Bach: "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3" (strings)
Edvard Grieg: "Suite from Holberg's Time" (strings)

Guest soloist: Elizabeth Austin, cellist, and founding conductor of the Blacksburg Community Strings, October 1999-July 2000

 

Spring 2006

Sunday, April 2: 7:30pm-Warm Hearth Village
Friday, April 7th: 8pm-Newport Concert
Saturday, April 8: 8pm-Squires Recital Salon

Marcello: Oboe Concerto in C minor
Albinoni: Introducione Seconda
Handel: Concerto #3 in G for Oboe and Strings
JS Bach: Concerto in D-major for three violins and string orchestra
Sibelius: Romanze in C, Opus 42
Gluck: Ballet Music

Winter 2005

Monday, December 12th 2005: 8pm Concert, Squires Recital Salon
Sunday,December 18th 2005: Town of Blacksburg Holiday Concert with the Blacksburg Community Band

Concerto Grosso in g minor, Op. 6, No. 8
(the "Christmas Concerto"),Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso, per il santissimo natale, Francesco Manfredini
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 1, Georg Friderich Handel
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, J.S. Bach
Christmas Suite, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Still, Still, Still (Austrian Carol) arr. Mark Hellem

 

Fall 2005

Saturday, October 29, 2005: Concert, Squires Recital Salon

Mozart: Concerto No. 3 in E flat for French Horn and Orchestra, Christy Kull, french horn
Vivaldi: Summer, from The Four Seasons, Ashley Keffer, violin

 

Spring 2005

April 11, 2005: Warm Hearth
April 22, 2005: Newport Recreation Center
April 23, 2005: Squires Recital Salon April 23, 2005: Chateau Morisette

Saint-Sa: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Jukka-Pekka Vainio, soloist
Saint-Sa: Romance for Horn or Cello, Jukka-Pekka Vainio, soloist
Sibelius: Valse Triste
J.C. Bach: Sinfonia
Rutter: Suite for Strings

 

Winter 2004

December 17, 2004: Newport Recreation Center
December 13, 2004: Squires Recital Salon
December 11, 2004: Chateau Morisette
December 11, 2004: Blacksburg High School (with the Blacksburg Community Band)

Anderson
Corelli
Handel
Manfredini

 

Fall 2004

October 30, 2004: Squires Recital Salon

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Mozart: Divertimento in C major, K157
Mendelssohn: String Sinfonia IV in C minor
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488

Special Guest Artist : Mary Louise Hallauer, Piano

 

1/24/07