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Yakov Kasman, Piano
Van Cliburn Gold Medalist

GLINKA Russlan and Ludmilla Overture
NIELSEN Suite from Aladdin
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1

TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker

Performances in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Illinois.

Candlelight Christmas

Laurie Gayle Stephenson, Soprano
Steve Amerson, Tenor
Mark Gasparo, Piano
Tupelo High School Madrigals — Vicki Wilson, Director

Pastime with Good Company Henry VIII
Le Sommeil de l' Enfant Jesus Gevaert
Ding Dong! Merrily on High arr. Willcocks
Glorious Sounds of Christmas Gustafson
It's the Most Wonderful Time Kessler
My Favorite Things Rodgers
I'll Be Home for Christmas arr. Krogstad
Sing We Noel, Noel arr. Kirk
Stille Nacht arr. Davis/Custer
Sleigh Ride arr. Bolks/Krogstad
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Blaine/Martin
Tintinabulations arr. Punwar
We Need a Little Christmas/Let It Snow arr. Bolks/Krogstad
Carol Of The Bells arr. Hayman
Gloria arr. Krogstad
Christmas Carol Medley arr. Johnson
Fantasia on Greensleeves Vaughan Williams
O Come All Ye Faithful arr. Gasparo
Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night) arr. Custer
Is There A Place? Amerson & Johnson
Mary, Did You Know arr. Krogstad
Hark the Herald Angels Sing arr. Krogstad
Peace, Peace/Silent Night arr. Kirkland/Rouse
We Wish You a Merry Christmas arr. Krogstad

Amahl and the Night Visitors
Steven Byess, Music Director
Jeff Carney, Stage Director
With the Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra — Krakow, Poland

Richard Marx in Concert with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra

Tupelo Symphony Orchestra
Children's Concerts
11:00 AM & 1:00 PM

Alexander Markov, Violin
Paganini International Violin Competition Gold Medal Winner

Tupelo Symphony Children’s Chorus — Monica Roden Spencer, Director
Itawamba Community College Choruses — Karen Davis and Robert Taylor, Directors

IVES Variations on America
SAINT SAËNS Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
BEETHOVEN Hallelujah from Christ On the Mount of Olives
RUTTER The Lord Is My Shepherd from Requiem
COPLAND Stomp Your Foot Upon the Floor from The Tender Land
MARKOV Rock Concerto

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
STRAVINSKY Le Sacre du Printemps

Cartoon Classics

Music Director Steven Byess leads another of his very popular cinema programs,
playing some of the greatest classics of the orchestral repertoire
complete with the classic animations that highlight these works.

GEORGES BIZET Toreador March from Carmen
GIOCOMO ROSSINI Overture to The Barber of Seville
JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. On the Beautiful Blue Danube
PAUL DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
FRANZ LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
RICHARD WAGNER Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre
FRANZ VON SUPPÉ Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna
PIOTR TCHAIKOVSKY Waltz from Sleeping Beauty
DMITRI KABALEVSKY Galop from The Comedians
IGOR STRAVINSKY The Firebird

Davis Events Center, Itawamba Community College
Fulton, MS — 2:00 PM

Cartoon Classics (Repeat of March 26, 2010)

Er-Gene Kahng, Violin

ROSSINI Overture to Semiramide
VIVALDI Spring & Summer from The Four Seasons
KHACHATURIAN Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from Spartacus
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio Espagnol

Mariangela Vacatello, Piano
2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Winner

The TSO ends the season with the Silver Medalist from the 2009 Cliburn International Piano Competition playing the thrilling Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 and the dramatic final symphony of Brahms.

BARBER Adagio for Strings
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

Magnolia Civic Center — 2:00 PM
New Albany, Mississippi

Mariangela Vacatello, Piano

(Repeat of April 17, 2010)

VERDI Overture to Giovanna d'Arco
MOZART Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36

Arkansas Philharmonic Educational Concerts
11:00 AM & 1:00 PM

Music of the World

BOYSEN Kirkpatrick Fanfare (Ireland)
DEBUSSY Girl With the Flaxen Hair (France)
LORTZ The Land of the Rising Sun (Japan)
MONTI Csárdás (Hungary)
STORY Evangeline: Two Cajun Songs (Southern U.S.)
KREISLER Praeludium and Allegro (Austria)
McCLEAN Tango (Argentina)
COPLAND Hoedown from Rodeo (United States)
BERNSTEIN Mambo from West Side Story (Cuba, Africa, & United States)

BORODIN Kismet
June 19, 24, 26
July 2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 17, 24, 28
August 5

SULLIVAN Iolanthe
June 30
July 10, 13, 16, 24, 30
August 7

SOUSA El Capitan
July 15, 18, 22, 27, 31
August 6

REINECKE Flute Concerto — Cathy Ransom-Karoly, Flute
ERIC EWAZEN Piccolo Concerto World Premiere — Jan Gippo, Piccolo
PETERIS VASKS Concerto for Flute and Orchestra — Michael Faust, Flute
JAKE HEGGIE Flute Concerto World Premiere — Carol Wincenc, Flute

BIZET Carmen
Steven Byess, Conductor
Steven Goldstein, Stage Director

Sandra Piques Eddy, Carmen
Jason Baldwin, Don José
Keith Miller, Zuniga
Keri Rusthoi, Micaëla
David Malis, Escamillo
Steven Goldstein, Remendado