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August 2008
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Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma Returns

Monday, June 30 at 8:00 p.m.

ROSSEN MILANOV conductor
YO-YO MA cello

COPLAND Appalachian Spring
SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No. 1
MUSORGSKY A Night on Bald Mountain
STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird


Rossen Milanov

La bohème

Tuesday, July 1 at 8:00 p.m.   

ROSSEN MILANOV conductor
DARINA TAKOVA soprano(Mimì)
MICHAEL FABIANO tenor (Rodolfo)
LUIS LEDESMA baritone (Marcello)
ARIANNA ZUKERMAN soprano(Musetta)
ALEXANDER TALL baritone (Schaunard)
GRIGORY SOLOVIOV bass (Colline)
GREGORY VORST bass(Alcindoro)

PUCCINI La bohème (in concert)


Leon McCawley

A Night of Mozart

Wednesday, July 2 at 8:00 p.m. 

ROSSEN MILANOV conductor
LEON MCCAWLEY piano 

MOZART Ballet Music from Idomeneo
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22, K. 482
MOZARTSymphony No. 41 (“Jupiter”)


Bramwell Tovey

Belioz and Beethoven

Thursday, July 17 at 8:00 p.m.   

BRAMWELL TOVEY conductor
ORION WEISS piano 

BERLIOZ “Rákóczy” March, from The Damnation
                 of Faust

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique


Leila Josefowicz

Pictures at an Exhibition

Friday, July 18 at 8:00 p.m.   

GIANCARLO GUERRERO conductor 
LEILA JOSEFOWICZ violin 

GINASTERA Suite from Estancia
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
MUSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition


Kirill Gerstein

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7

Monday, July 21 at 8:00 p.m.   

THOMAS WILKINS conductor
KIRILL GERSTEIN piano 

GRIEG Lyric Suite
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme
                               of Paganini
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7


Jon Kimura Parker

Tchaikovsky with Fireworks

Tuesday, July 22, at 8:00 p.m.

ANDREW GRAMS conductor 
JON KIMURA PARKER piano

TCHAIKOVSKY Excerpts from Suite from The TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY Suite from The Nutcracker
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture


Jennifer Koh

Koh Plays Sibelius

Wednesday, July 23 at 8:00 p.m.   

ROSSEN MILANOV conductor
JENNIFER KOH violin 

WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger von
                 Nürnberg

SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4


Rossen Milanov

Carmina Burana

Thursday, July 24 at 8:00 p.m. 

ROSSEN MILANOV conductor
JOANNA MONGIARDO soprano
CHRISTOPHER PFUND tenor
HUGH RUSSELL baritone
THE PHILADELPHIA SINGERS CHORALE
     David Hayes music director
THE PENNSYLVANIA GIRLCHOIR 
     Mark Anderson music director

ORFF Carmina burana