HSO Orchestral Concerts — 1999-2000 Season
Jed Gaylin, Music Director
Brian Stone, 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.
Saturday, October 23, 1999, 8:00 p.m. — “Contemporaries and Namesakes”
Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m. with Prof. Vernon Lidtke, JHU Department of History
Luigi Cherubini: Overture from Les deux journées
Ludwig Spohr:
Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major, Opus 57
Elisabeth Ganter, clarinet
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67
Program notesSaturday, December 4, 1999, 8:00 p.m. — “Landscapes”
Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m. with composer Mark Lanz Weiser
Mark Lanz Weiser:
Into the Dark and Darker Cold
(libretto by Lia Purpura)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano
Antonín Dvorák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Opus 70
Program notesSunday, March 5, 2000, 3:00 p.m. — “Spirit Worlds”
Pre-concert lecture at 2:00 p.m. with Jonathan Palevsky
Engelbert Humperdinck: Overture to Hansel & Gretel
Jean Sibelius:
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Opus 47
Qing Li, violin
Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose Suite (Ma Mère l'Oye)
Saturday, April 29, 2000, 8:00 p.m. - “Russian Excursions”
Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m. with Max Derrickson
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Opus 10
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Opus 23
Jerry Wong, piano
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.