HSO Orchestral Concerts — 1998-1999 Season
Jed Gaylin, Music Director
Alexander Mickelthwate, Assistant Conductor
Orchestral concerts were performed in Shriver Hall on the Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. Pre-concert lectures took place in the Clipper Room on the second floor of Shriver Hall.
Friday, September 11, 1998, 7:30 p.m. — Benefit Concert for Operation Smile
Antonín Dvorák:
Cello Concerto in B Minor, Opus 104
Bonnie Thron, cello
Sergei Rachmaninoff:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Opus 18
Linda Pio-Roda, piano
Saturday, October 24, 1998, 8:00 p.m. — "Art Creates Artists"
Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m. with Max Derrickson
Samuel Adler: Art Creates Artists
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 35
Xiao-po Fei, violin
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Opus 90
Saturday, December 5, 1998, 8:00 p.m. — "Opus Opera!"
Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m. with Jonathan Palevsky
Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to Nabucco
Giuseppe Verdi:
Act I from La Traviata
Carla DelVillaggio, soprano
Richard Crawley, tenor
Giuseppe Verdi:
Act II from La Traviata
Margot Bos Stambler,
soprano
Fenlon Lamb, mezzo-soprano
Sunday, March 7, 1999, 3:00 p.m. — "Spring Stirrings"
Pre-concert lecture at 2:00 p.m. with Charles Dempsey, Ph.D.,
JHU Department of Art History
Edvard Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies
Ottorino Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano
Igor Stravinsky: Petrouchka (1947 Version)
Saturday, May 1, 1999, 8:00 p.m. — "Symphony Firsts"
Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m. with Russell Steinberg
Russell Steinberg: Symphony No. 1 ("City Strains")
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Opus 68
Hopkins Symphony Orchestra programs are made possible by a generous grant from The Maryland State Arts Council. Soloists are underwritten by the Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust.