THE ST. CLOUD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
2017-2018 CONCERT SEASON
A SEASON OF STORIES
Preview Concert: A New Chapter Begins
September 22, 2017 – 7:30pm
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
Featuring Jesse Langen, guitar
September 22, 2017 – 7:30pm
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
Featuring Jesse Langen, guitar
Taking Flight
November 4, 2017 – 7:30 pm
Pre-concert Discussion – 6:30pm
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
Liszt: Les Preludes
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending featuring Dr. Erin Aldridge, violin
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
November 4, 2017 – 7:30 pm
Pre-concert Discussion – 6:30pm
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
Liszt: Les Preludes
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending featuring Dr. Erin Aldridge, violin
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
Children’s Holiday Fantasy
December 9, 2017 – 10:00 am
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
With special guests The St. John's Boys' Choir
St. Cloud Holiday Fantasy
December 9, 2017 – 3:00 pm
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
With special guests The St. John's Boys' Choir
December 9, 2017 – 10:00 am
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
With special guests The St. John's Boys' Choir
St. Cloud Holiday Fantasy
December 9, 2017 – 3:00 pm
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
With special guests The St. John's Boys' Choir
On Stage
February 24, 2018 – 7:30pm
Pre-concert Discussion – 6:30pm
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
Verdi: Overture to Nabucco
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture Fantasy
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont
Beethoven: Choral Fantasy, Op. 80 with Great River Chorale
February 24, 2018 – 7:30pm
Pre-concert Discussion – 6:30pm
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
Verdi: Overture to Nabucco
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture Fantasy
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont
Beethoven: Choral Fantasy, Op. 80 with Great River Chorale
Legends
April 21, 2018 – 7:30pm
Pre-concert Discussion – 6:30pm
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
Bernstein: Overture to West Side Story
Debussy: Petite Suite
Young Performer Competition Winner – TBD
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
April 21, 2018 – 7:30pm
Pre-concert Discussion – 6:30pm
Ritsche Auditorium, SCSU
Bernstein: Overture to West Side Story
Debussy: Petite Suite
Young Performer Competition Winner – TBD
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
A message from Maestro Brian Dowdy
Dear St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra Patrons,
On September 22 I will begin my first full season as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra. The Preview Concert: A New Chapter Begins will kick off the season with a sample of works from upcoming concerts, and will feature St. Cloud native Jesse Langen playing Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra by Joaquín Rodrigo. The Preview Concert will be a wonderful opportunity to connect with the community and to build excitement for a stunning 42nd season.
Our 2017-18 season will be A Season of Stories. Our opening concert will explore legendary moments in music history, from the birth of the Symphonic Poem in Liszt’s Les Preludes to the blossoming of a Romantic interest in folk music, as heard in Dvořák’s joyful Symphony No. 8. Our December concert will weave narrative descriptions of the holiday season in St. Cloud around winter dances from around the world, followed by scenes from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. February features Tchaikovsky’s take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, along with overtures to Verdi’s Nabucco and Beethoven’s Egmont, and Great River Chorale joins us in presenting Beethoven’s beloved Choral Fantasy. Stories-within-stories abound in our May concert, as we close the season with Rimsky-Korsakov’s epic Scheherazade.
The coming season marks a new chapter for the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra, as I build a relationship with the orchestra and our community, as we deepen our partnerships and investments in the St. Cloud area, as we welcome new musicians into the orchestra, and as we break new artistic ground through inspired and engaging programming. Your support makes it possible for us to write this new chapter and to bring great musical legends to the people of St. Cloud.
Thank you for being part of our story.
Sincerely,
Brian Dowdy
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor
On September 22 I will begin my first full season as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra. The Preview Concert: A New Chapter Begins will kick off the season with a sample of works from upcoming concerts, and will feature St. Cloud native Jesse Langen playing Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra by Joaquín Rodrigo. The Preview Concert will be a wonderful opportunity to connect with the community and to build excitement for a stunning 42nd season.
Our 2017-18 season will be A Season of Stories. Our opening concert will explore legendary moments in music history, from the birth of the Symphonic Poem in Liszt’s Les Preludes to the blossoming of a Romantic interest in folk music, as heard in Dvořák’s joyful Symphony No. 8. Our December concert will weave narrative descriptions of the holiday season in St. Cloud around winter dances from around the world, followed by scenes from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. February features Tchaikovsky’s take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, along with overtures to Verdi’s Nabucco and Beethoven’s Egmont, and Great River Chorale joins us in presenting Beethoven’s beloved Choral Fantasy. Stories-within-stories abound in our May concert, as we close the season with Rimsky-Korsakov’s epic Scheherazade.
The coming season marks a new chapter for the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra, as I build a relationship with the orchestra and our community, as we deepen our partnerships and investments in the St. Cloud area, as we welcome new musicians into the orchestra, and as we break new artistic ground through inspired and engaging programming. Your support makes it possible for us to write this new chapter and to bring great musical legends to the people of St. Cloud.
Thank you for being part of our story.
Sincerely,
Brian Dowdy
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor
Dr. Brian Edward Dowdy is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra and the Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to symphonic performances, Dowdy has recently conducted productions of Don Giovanni, Hänsel und Gretel, Susannah, Le tragédie de Carmen and The Rape of Lucretia, and he has led performances with the University of Minnesota Campus Singers, Chorus Polaris and the Sanctuary choir of Richmond, VA. In 2012 he joined Sanctuary in recording Music for Compline, an album of plainchant and renaissance motets, and in 2014 he directed and sang in Pesher Compline at the Walker Art Center with members of Cantus. As an advocate for new music, Dowdy has led premier performances for the Switchboard and Hot Air Music Festivals in San Francisco, and in 2013 he conducted the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble in “Project Beck,” a night of 20 premiers inspired by Beck Hansen’s Song Reader. Dowdystudied at Oberlin College, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of Minnesota. He holds degrees in conducting, classical guitar performance, English literature and East Asian Studies.
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