"Every time we go out onto the stage I realize that the audience has come out to hear their own orchestra on the North Shore."
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“Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we can’t with our minds. Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us.” ~ Karl Paulnack
Cellist Ariel Barnes* will warm this winter night with famous works of Tchaikovsky and Fauré. The program concludes with Mozart’s glorious Symphony No. 29.
Mozart: Divertimento, K.138 in F 
Tchaikovsky: A Grateful Greeting
Mozart: Symphony #29
*Faure: Elegy
Barnes: Andante for Strings
*Tchaikovsky: Rococco Variations
Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Fourth Symphony provide bookends to this evening of classical gems featuring our own principal clarinet, Mary Backun.
Internationally acclaimed pianist Sara Davis Buechner graces the Centennial Theatre stage to perform Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto – a grand season finale!
Join us for our season opening and a celebration of Liszt’s 200th birthday! Pianist Avan Yu will perform Liszt’s dazzling Piano Concerto No. 1, and the orchestra will add some festive musical fireworks of its own!
J. Strauss, Jr.: Der Zigeunerbaron Overture
J. Strauss, Jr.: Eljen a Magyar Polka,
Berlioz, arr Liszt, orch CM: Rákóczi March from Damnation of Faust
Tchaikovsky: Czardas from Swan Lake,
Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3, 10
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Liszt: Piano Concerto #1 in E flat
The season continues with a program of string orchestra masterworks, plus Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante featuring Martina Smazal and Royce Richert.
