All Concerts are on Sundays at 3:00 p.m.
at Valley Vista Performing Arts Center
15550 N. Parkview Place, Surprise, AZ 85374
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2018-2019 Season Concerts
November 18, 2018
The season gets underway with some of the most energetic music imaginable. There are few overtures as brilliant as Colas Breugnon. Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite No.1 is full of excitement and pathos. We celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s centennial with his West Side Story Symphonic Dances and conclude with the toe tapping Hoedown from Rodeo by Aaron Copland.
Colas Breugnon Overture, Dmitri Kabalevsky
Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1, Sergei Prokofiev
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein
Hoedown from Rodeo, Aaron Copland
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December 16, 2018
Join the West Valley Chorale and the West Valley Symphony for the greatest seasonal favorite of all time, Handel’s Messiah!
Featuring Ken Goodenberger, Jennifer Nagy, Earl Hazeall and Alexis Davis Hazell
Messiah, George Frederick Handel
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January 13, 2019
Welcome back young violin prodigy Jonathan Okseniuk, featured in the Mendelssohn Concerto for Violin. The program opens with the mysterious and colorful Fingal’s Cave Overture and ends with the majestic 1st Symphony by Brahms.
The Hebrides “Fingal’s Cave”
Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto in E minor for violin, Op. 64, Jonathan Okseniuk, soloist
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
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February 10, 2019
Beethoven is back and his 5th Symphony is one of his greatest works. Suites by two close colleagues, Ravel and Stravinsky round out the concert.
Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mother Goose Suite
Maurice Ravel
The Firebird Suite (1919)
Igor Stravinsky
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March 10, 2019
The music of George Gershwin captures the essence of what America is all about. Features Dr. Karali Hunter, NCTM in Rhapsody in Blue. You don’t want to miss this one.
Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
Symphonic Picture
arr. Robert Russell Bennett
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin
Dr. Karali Hunter
NCTM
An American in Paris
George Gershwin
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April 7, 2019
50th Anniversary
Celebration Concert
We are celebrating the West Valley Symphony’s 50th anniversary by performing a portion of the very first concert the orchestra played in 1968. Anna Han returns to dazzle us with her artistry as soloist in the Grieg Piano
The Barber of Seville Overture
Gioacchino Rossini
Symphony No. 35, K385, (Haffner Symphony)
Wolfgang Mozart
Piano Concerto in A minor, Anna Han, soloist
Edvard Grieg
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All Concerts are on Sundays at 3:00 p.m.
at Valley Vista Performing Arts Center
15550 N. Parkview Place, Surprise, AZ 85374
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