Coming in October

Join Symphony Arlington for its 2010-2011 season premier! Symphony Arlington will be performing Grieg's In Autumn, Glazunov's "Autumn" from The Seasons, Vaughan Williams' Tuba Concerto in F Minor, and Brahms' Symphony No. 2 in D Major, to name a few!
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
7:30pm
Arlington Music Hall

Coming in November

Symphony Arlington will be performing Piazolla's "Otoņo Porteņo" (Buenos Aires Autumn), Mozart's Symphony No. 36 in C Major "Linz", Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano. This performance will also feature Vivaldi's "Autumn" from The Four Seasons.
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
7:30pm
Arlington Music Hall
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This performance will feature:

John Pickle, tenor

Michael Haydn – Pastorello in C Major, MH 83                   

Timing:  5’ 

Joseph Haydn's younger brother Michael has earned less fame. His earlier career followed that of his brother, as a chorister and then earning a living from music as best he could in Vienna. He became Kapellmeister in 1757 to the Bishop of Grosswardein and in 1762 moved to Salzburg, home of the Mozart family, serving there as Konzertmeister to the ruling Archbishop and to his successor, while earning a not inconsiderable reputation beyond the confines of his position. His pupils included Weber and the composer-publisher Diabelli, while his influence on7 Mozart cannot be discounted.

Joseph Haydn – Winter Prelude and "Hier seht der Wandrer nun" from Die Jahreszeiten  (The Seasons)   

Timing:  5’

The Seasons (German: Die Jahreszeiten) is an oratoria by Joseph Haydn (H. 21/3).  Haydn was led to write The Seasons by the great success of his previous oratorio The Creation (1798), which had become very popular and was in the course of being performed all over Europe. The libretto for The Seasons was provided to Haydn, just as with The Creation, by Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an Austrian nobleman who had also exercised an important influence on the career of Mozart. Van Swieten's libretto was his own rendering into German of extracts from the long English poem "The Seasons" by James Thomson (1700-1748), which had been published in 1730.The composition process was arduous for Haydn, in part because his health was gradually failing and partly because Haydn found van Swieten's libretto to be rather taxing. Haydn took two years to complete the work.

Gerald Finzi – Dies natalis, Op. 8:  III. “The Rapture”               

Timing:  5’10

Dies natalis (Latin: "Natal Day" or "Day of Birth") is a composition by Gerald Finzi for solo soprano or tenor and string orchestra. Finzi set texts of the poet Thomas Traherne from Centuries of Meditation.  Written from 1938-1939, the score was published in 1946.  Finzi himself conducted the work at the Three Choirs Festival in 1946. 

Dies natalis received its first recording sponsored by the British Council during Finzi's lifetime, only one of two recordings of his music made when the composer was alive. In 1964, his son Christopher Finzi conducted the work for recording.

The work is in five movements:


       1. "Intrada"

       2. "Rhapsody" (Recitativo stromentato)

       3. "The Rapture" (Danza)

       4. "Wonder" (Arioso)

       5. "The Salutation" (Aria)

Ralph Vaughan Williams – “Bright Portals of the Sky”, Hymn XII. from Hodie        

Timing:  3’15

Hodie (This Day) is a cantata by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Composed between 1953 and 1954, it is the composer's last major choral-orchestral composition, and was premiered under his baton at Worcester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival, on September 8, 1954. The piece is dedicated to Herbert Howells. The cantata, in 16 movements, is scored for chorus, boys' choir, organ and orchestra, and features tenor, baritone, and soprano soloists.  Thematically, the work is bound together by two or three motives which recur throughout its length. One of these is first heard on the word "Gloria" in the first movement, and recurs whenever the word is introduced again. Another, introduced in the first narration, reappears at the beginning of the epilogue. In addition, the final setting of Milton's text uses the same melody as the first song for soprano, although orchestrated differently.
Jeff Tyzik – The Twelve Gifts of Christmas               

Timing:  15’

Holiday Sing-along            

Timing:  15’

Leroy Anderson – Sleigh Ride                  

Timing:  2’32
Emile Waldteufel - Christmas Roses Waltz

Timing: 7” 33

Victor Herbert –March of the Toys                  

Timing: 3’56
Arrg.  Chase – Christmas Memories

Timing: 3’59