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2008-2009 Performances

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 Musician Schedule

Masterworks Concerts

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All masterworks concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. at
Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Dr.,
Little Rock.

Winds on the West Side

Thursday, October 16
John Krebs, piano

Sponsored by
Richard Butler, Jr.
in memory of Gertrude Remmel Butler

Somthing's Coming...Tonight!
Don’t miss the opening concert of our 16th season at Second PresbyterianPianist John Krebs will perform Introduction and Capriccio by John Barnes Chance. Church in West Little Rock!

Little Rock Wind Symphony: It’s where all the “Cool” kids are.

Dukas: Fanfare from “La Peri”
von Suppé/Fillmore: Light Cavalry Overture
Bernstein/Duthoit: West Side Story Selections Strauss/Davis: Allerseelen
Persichetti: Divertimento
Chance: Introduction and Capriccio for Piano and Winds
Sousa: The Free Lance March
Mendelssohn: Overture for Winds op. 24
Bach: Fugue à la Gigue

Hands Across the Sea

Thursday, February 26
Larry Jones, trumpet


 

“A sudden thought strikes me – let us swear an eternal friendship” Trumpeter Larry Jones will present Clarke's  "Carnival of Venice".-
John Hookham Frere.  According to Sousa’s biographer, Paul Bierley, this line inspired Sousa’s Hands Across the Sea. This exciting program weaves a tapestry of music by British and American composers.

Sousa: Hands Across the Sea
Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
Purcell/Stucky: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Clarke: Fantasie and Variations on
        “The Carnival of  Venice”   for Trumpet

Sousa: The Thunderer
Hearshen: Symphony on Themes of John Philip Sousa, II. After “The Thunderer”
Gorb: Yiddish Dances
Ives/Rhoads: Variations on “America"

Around the World in 90 Minutes

Thursday, April 23
Robert Anderson, clarinet

Sponsored by
Chenal Investment Group
of Wachovia Securities

No time to get away?  Get a jump-start on your vacation and join LRWS on Hands on Clarineta musical journey courtesy of these Australian, Czech, German, French, and American composers.  They’ll take you to places you couldn’t DREAM of visiting in only 90 minutes!
 

Bernstein/Beeler: Overture to “Candide”
Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry
Sousa: El Capitan
Gounod: Petite Symphonie
von Weber/Girard:  Concerto No. 2 in E-flat for Clarinet
Fucik: Florentiner
Gandolfi: Vientos y Tangos
Gershwin/Krance: An American in Paris

  It's a wonderful world, if you'll only take the time to go around it!
Christmas Concert

Christmas Jubilee!

Thursday, December 4
Robin Dauer, horn

 

Robin Dauer, horn, performs Hermann's Concerto for HornCelebrate the season with your favorite Christmas classics and William Randall’s festive Jubilee! Take a trip down memory lane with nostalgic gems. And certainly don’t miss the chance to sing along with LRWS!

Gabrieli: Canzon septimi toni No. 2
arr. Reed: Greensleeves
William Randall: Jubilee!
Adam /Custer: O Holy Night
Hermann: Concerto for Horn
Anderson A Christmas Festival
Kabalevsky/Hunsberger: Overture to Colas Bruegnon
Hanson: Chorale and Alleluia
Schubert /Ticheli: Ave Maria
Hanson: Patapan
Anderson: Sleigh Ride
Barker: It’s Christmas!

Flag Day Concert

A Stars and Stripes Celebration

Saturday, June 13, 7:00 p.m.
Rain Date: Sunday, June 14, 7 p.m.
MacArthur Park, Little Rock  map

Hosted by MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History

Free Admission

It’s our annual salute to the red, white, and blue.  We’ve got hand-clapping Hand on Flagmarches, flag waving patriotic songs, toe-tapping Broadway show tunes, and free ice cream.  Bring the kids and your picnic baskets.  Here’s to the Stars and Stripes Forever!

Sousa: The Free Lance March
Sousa: The Thunderer
Bernstein/Duthoit: West Side Story Selections
Sousa: Hands Across the Sea
Sousa: The Rifle Regiment
Gould/Lang: American Salute
Fillmore: Americans We
Fillmore: The Circus Bee
Sousa/Bougeois: Marching Along
Ives Rhoads: Variations on America
arr. Lowden: Armed Forces Salute
Ward/Dragon: America the Beautiful
Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever

Ticket Info

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Adult     $35     (Four
Senior   $28         
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Adult    $10
Senior   $8
 
Students  $5

 

info@lrwindsymphony.org 

501.666.0777

P. O. Box 250341
Little Rock, AR 72225

 

Contributions

Please consider becoming a concert sponsor!

$2500 Christmas Concert Sponsor
$2500 Flag Day Concert Sponsor
$2000 Masterworks Concert Sponsor

$1000 Concert Co-Sponsor

All contributions, no matter how small, do make a difference.

$500 Patron               $100 Sustainer
$250
Benefactor           $50 Supporter
                             $          Donor

Support for Little Rock Wind Symphony, Inc. is provided, in part, by the
Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage,
and the National Endowment for the Arts.