String/Orchestra Events at WSU

WSU Events and schedule

String/Orchestra Events at WSU
The annual Honors String Day, Friday, October 23, attracts some 60 students from throughout the region for a day of rehearsals and coaching with our string faculty, culminating in a performance with our student wind, brass, and percussion sections.  Please encourage your advanced students to consider attending.  Our repertoire this year will include Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slav and the first movement of Dittersdorf’s Bass Concerto, with faculty soloist Mark Foley.  Registration materials will be available in mid-September.

All WSU Symphony Orchestra concerts are broadcast live via WSUiR, the university Internet radio station (http://wsuir.wichita.edu).  Performances begin at 7:30pm.  

September 22/Frances Shelly, flute; Ann Glasmann, harp
Michael Abels: Global Warming
Mozart: Concerto in C Major for Flute, Harp, and Strings
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor

October 29/Halloween Pops Concert
Bach/Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Grieg:  In the Hall of the Mountain King
Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
Stravinsky: Berceuse and Final from The Firebird
Chadwick: Hobgoblin
Horner:  Theme from The Rocketeer
Williams: Imperial March and Main Title from Star Wars

November 19-22/WSU Opera
Mozart:  Cosi fan tutte

December 3/Mary Irwin, violin
Picker:  Old and Lost Rivers
Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor

KUSO fall semester concerts

The University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra
David Neely, conductor

Fall semester concerts

September 22

Barnes                   Celebration Overture
Prokofiev              Lieutenant Kije Suite
Haydn                   Symphony No. 104 in D  “London”

October 30           HALLOWEEN CONCERT

Holst                     ‘Mars’ from The Planets
Humperdinck         Witch’s Ride from Hänsel und Gretel
Berlioz                  March to the Scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique
Dukas                   The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)  Night on Bare Mountain
Saint-Saëns           Danse Macabre
Wagner                 Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre

November 22       OPERA GALA CONCERT

Featuring KU vocal gala competition winners performing arias, ensembles and choruses from the world’s most popular operas.   

December 6                   ANNUAL HOLIDAY VESPERS CONCERT

Featuring KU Choruses, Symphony Orchestra, student ensembles Conductors: Dr. Paul Tucker and David Neely