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Saturday, October 13, 2018- 7:30 pm
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Jesus Manuel Berard, conductor
Charlotte Marckx, violin – Johansen International Competition Winner
Walker: Pageant and Proclamation (1997)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.35
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op.97 “Rhenish”
Saturday, November 17, 2018 – 7:30 pm
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Jesus Manuel Berard, conductor
Laura Zuiderveen, mezzo-soprano
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Saturday, February 09, 2019 – 7:30 pm
Northwestern High School, Hyattsville, MD
Jesus Manuel Berard, conductor
The Northwestern High School, Visual & Performing Arts Choir; Dawn Jones, director
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36
Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2, Op.55 • Side-by-Side
Vivaldi: Gloria
Saturday, March 23, 2019 – 7:30 pm
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Jesus Manuel Berard, conductor
Detra Battle, soprano
Chavez: Symphony No. 2 “Sinfonia India” (1935)
Simon: Silver Spring (2008) • World Premiere
Bonds, Margaret: I Got a Home In dat Rock
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Burleigh, Harry T.: Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child
I Want to Be Ready
Simpson-Curenton, Evelyn: Git Onboard
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”
Saturday, May 18, 2019 – 7:30 pm
Dekelboum Concert Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD
Jesus Manuel Berard, conductor
Rita Sloan, piano
Haydn: Introduction to The Creation
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488
Holst:The Planets
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Saturday, October 07, 2017- 8:00 pm
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Jesus Manuel Berard, conductor
Laura Zuiderveen, mezzo-soprano
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Dvořák: Carnival Overture, Op. 92
Mahler: Rückert Lieder
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Saturday, November 11, 2017 – 8:00 pm
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Jesus Manuel Berard, conductor
Victoria Chiang, viola
Rossini: Overture to Semiramide
Martinů: Rhapsody – Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, H. 337
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90
Saturday, February 10, 2018 – 8:00 pm
Suitland High School, Forestville, MD
Jesus Manuel Berard, conductor
Chris Vadala, saxophone
Suitland High School Visual and Performing Arts Concert Choir, Kenneth Boucher, director
Bizet: Carmen: Suite No. 2 – Side-by-Side
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Mangione: The Feel of a Vision
Rodgers and Hart: My Romance
Strayhorn: Take the A Train
Rodgers and Hart: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
Gillespie: A Night in Tunisia
Saturday, March 24, 2018 – 8:00pm
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Jesus Manuel Berard, conductor
All-orchestral program
Wm. Schuman: American Festival Overture
Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in A Minor, Op. 33
Copland: El Salón México
Still: Symphony No. 1 “Afro-American Symphony”
Barber: Essay for Orchestra No. 2, Op.17
Saturday, May 12, 2018 – 8: 00pm
Dekelboum Concert Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD
Jesus Manuel Berard, conductor
Yuliya Gorenman, piano
Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat Major, Op. 73 “Emperor”
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op.47
08 October 2016
Saturday – 8:00 pm
Richard Rosenberg, conductor candidate
Rita Sloan, piano
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave), Op. 26
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in C Minor, Op.37
Dvořák: Symphony No.7 in D Minor, Op.70
19 November 2016
Saturday – 8:00 pm
Stephen Czarkowski, conductor candidate
Jerry Grossman, cello
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op.56a
Bloch: “Schelomo”: Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E Minor, Op.64
11 February 2017
Saturday – 8:00 pm
Brian Stone, conductor candidate
Adrienne Ivey, soprano
Northwestern High School Visual & Performing Arts Choir, Dawn Jones, director
Northwestern High School, Hyattsville, MD
Borodin: Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor (Side-by-Side)
Mendelssohn: Infelice, Op.94
Adrienne Ivey, soprano
Schubert: Mass No. 2 in G Major, D. 167
Berlioz: D’amour l’ardente flamme from La damnation de Faust
Adrienne Ivey, soprano
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suites 1 and 2
25 March 2017
Saturday – 8:00 pm
Jesus Manuel Berard, conductor candidate
David Perry, violin
Michael Mermagen, cello
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102
14 May 2017
Sunday – 3:00 pm
Anna Binneweg, conductor candidate
Brian Ganz, piano
Dekelboum Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD
Tchaikovsky: Selections from Swan Lake
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36
Saturday, October 10, 2015- 8: 00 pm
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Charles Ellis, conductor
Hae Sue Lee, viola, Johansen International Competition Winner
Buonamente: Sonata for Brass
Walton: Concerto for Viola
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op. 55 “Eroica”
Saturday, November 21, 2015 – 8:00 pm
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Charles Ellis, conductor – Richard Rosenberg, guest conductor
Amy Beth Horman, violin
Gottschalk (Rosenberg, editor): Symphony No. 1 “A Night in the Tropics”
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 in G Major “A London Symphony”
Saturday, February 13, 2016-8 pm & Sunday, February 14, 2016-3 pm
Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt, MD & Suitland High School, Forestville, MD
Blair Skinner, resident conductor – Kenneth Boucher, guest conductor
Jennifer Cabot, soprano
Angelique Hunter, soprano
Suitland High School Visual and Performing Arts Concert Choir, Kenneth Boucher, director
Chabrier: España
Mozart: Regina Coeli, K. 108
Poulenc: Gloria
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 “Italian”
Saturday, March 19, 2016 – 8:00pm
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Blair Skinner, resident conductor
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Kodaly: Dances of Galanta
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in E Minor
Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird (1919)
Sunday, May 22, 2016 – 3: 00pm
Dekelboum Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD
Blair Skinner, resident conductor
Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano
Laura Zuiderveen, mezzo-soprano
The Heritage Signature Chorale, Stanley Thurston, director
The Chesapeake Chorale, Jesse Parker, director
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor “Resurrection”
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