2008-2009 Season Schedule
OCTOBER 25, 2008 – Link Centre Concert Hall
Appassionata!
Patrick Rafferty, Violin
Lily Afshar, Guitar
The TSO begins the season with two sensuous and evocative compositions, both with enormous picturesque qualities and formal perfection.
VAUGHN WILLIAMS
The Lark Ascending
RODRIGO
Concierto de Aranjuez
DECEMBER 13, 2008 – Tupelo Civic Auditorium
Christmas with the Tupelo Symphony Orchestra
Tupelo Symphony Children’s Chorus - Monica Roden Spencer, Director Tupelo High School Choral Department including Madrigals - Vicki Wilson, Director
Don’t miss one of Mississippi’s finest holiday programs with the Tupelo Symphony and choral ensembles!
February 14, 2009 –Link Centre Concert Hall
A TSO Valentine Extravaganza
Laurie Gayle Stephenson, Soprano
Steve Amerson, Tenor
Gollowing the great success of their collaboration with the TSO last year at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts in Oxford, the orchestra welcomes the return of Broadway singing duo Laurie Gayle Stephenson and Steve Amerson in this exciting and entertaining Valentine’s Day concert. The romantic musical selections will be sure to touch your heart!
Selection to include:
All I Ask of You
If I Loved You
One Hand, One Heart
The Prayer
How Could I Ever Know
Almost Like Being In Love
I Have Dreamed
March 6, 2009 – Tupelo Civic Auditorium
TSO Children’s Concerts
March 7, 2009 –Tupelo Civic Auditorium
Ford Made in America and Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Mississippi State University Chorus – Bruce Lesley, Director
The TSO joins other distinguished orchestras across the US as a participant in the Ford Made in America commissioning project and presents the premier of a new work by the dynamic American composer Joseph Schwantner. The orchestra will also premier a beautiful and moving choral memorial written for the late Pope John Paul II composed by a young Polish composer Bartek Chajdecki. This extraordinary program concludes with Beethoven’s mighty and powerful Symphony No. 9
SCHWANTNER
Chasing Light World Premier
CHAJDECKI
Hymn World Premier
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9
April 18, 2009 – Link Centre Concert Hall
Ravel Piano Concertos
Yaron Kolberg, Piano
Cleveland International Pianp Competition Winner
RAVEL
Concerto for the Left Hand
RAVEL
Concerto in G Major
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear one of the world’s finest young pianists play both of the exquisite piano concertos written by Maurice Ravel!