2010 - 2011 Concert Schedule
- SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
- Student performances of the Summer Bands, Chorus, West Afrikan Drumming, and Strings.
Classes began meeting on Monday, July 5th.
- Friday July 16, 7:30 ... Danbury Music Centre
- Student Chorus: Jonathan Pope, Director
- Thursday August 5, 7:30 ... Rogers Park Middle School
- Student Wind Ensembles and Jazz Band: Albert Montecalvo, Director
- Saturday August 6, 7:30 ... CityCenter Green
- Student West Afrikan Drumming: Ase-AmenRa Kariamu, Director
- Friday August 13, 7:30 ... Rogers Park Middle School
- Student String Ensembles: Larry Deming, Music Director
SEPTEMBER 2010
- Saturday September 25, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
 Benefit Recital
Men Without Instruments
Carlos Sousa and his popular group of singers
will present a fun, doo-wop evening, to benefit
the programs of the Danbury Music Centre.
The cost is $10 and you should register in advance.
- Sunday October 17 . . . Events occur throughout the day at various locations.
- The Annual Celebration of
Charles Ives Day
- The youthful works of Charles Ives
Plans are still in the works, but . . .
A hike up Pine Mountain, a tour of the Ives birth home, a
grave site visit, and some musical "happenings" are typical.
The day will end at St. Peter Church (lower Main St.)
with a performance of Ives' Variations on America.
Contact the DMC if you are going on the Hike up Pine Mountain
so we have a count before Saturday.
Major Funding:  with additional funding from
- Saturday October 23, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
Benefit Recital
David Gale and his Violin
The cost is $10.
- Saturday November 6, 3:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
- CONCERT OF FINALISTS
Student Concerto Competition
- Selected finalists will compete and the winner, who will be
announced at the end of the concert, will perform with the
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
on January 23, 2011.
Recital Series Funding:
- Saturday November 6, 8:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- Symphony No. 1 by Brahms,
The Three Elizabeths by Eric Coates, and
Dvorak's Romance in F major for Violin and Orchestra
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
- Sunday November 14, 7:30pm ... First Congregational Church, West St. and Deer Hill Ave.
- Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,
Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus,
Holst's Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent,
Personent Hodie from Gaudete by Alice Parker,
and
Brahm's Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs), Op. 103
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS
CHRISTINE HOWLETT, Guest Conductor
Major Funding:
- Sunday December 5, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
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DANBURY COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
STEPHEN MICHAEL SMITH, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
Funding for the Concert Mentor: 
- Friday December 10, 7:30pm
Saturday December 11, 6:00pm
Sunday December 12, 3:00pm ... Danbury High School, Clapboard Ridge Rd., Rt. 39
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Tchaikovsky's NUTCRACKER BALLET – The Danbury Symphony Orchestra will be joined by over 200 dancers from the greater Danbury area
in this fully staged, costumed production. This holiday favorite sells out quickly!
ARTHUR FREDRIC, Artistic Director/Choreographer
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
EXCLUSIVELY for members ($50 and higher): Mail Orders collected by 4pm
Monday, Nov. 1st, will have the first opportunity to select seats.
(Tickets cost $15 or $20); ALL seats are reserved;
Public sales begin Nov. 17th; call (203) 748-1716.
Major Funding:
The Danbury Cultural Commission
Anna Walter and Bill Fricke
with additional funding from:
Alice Kenner
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- Friday December 17, 7:30pm ... First Congregational Church, West St. and Deer Hill Ave.
- MESSIAH
an Oratorio by Georg Frederic Händel
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS &
DANBURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
TINA HEIDRICH, Special Guest Conductor
Major Funding:
- Sunday January 23, 3:00pm ... Danbury High School Auditorium, Clapboard Ridge Rd. Rt. 39
- Annual Young People's Concert
Also, featuring this year's winner of the DSO Concerto Competition,
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
- Saturday March 5, 8:00pm ... St. James Church, 25 West St.
- Randall Thompson's Alleluia,
Bloch's Sacred Service,
Holst's Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent,
Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal by Parker Shaw,
and the African American Spiritual, Ain't Got Time to Die, arr. by Hall Johnson
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS
MATTHEW PHELPS, Guest Conductor
Major Funding:
- Sunday March 6, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- TBA
There will also be several selections by the DPSO and a combined number.
Danbury Preparatory String Orchestra
GLEN LEBETKIN, Music Director
DANBURY COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
STEPHEN MICHAEL SMITH, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
Funding for the Concert Mentor:
- Sunday March 13, 3:00pm ... DHS Auditorium or Ives Concert Hall
- 75th Aniversary Celebration
Something from everyone!
Major Funding:
- Friday March 25, 8:00pm ... Grand Hotel Ballroom, Danbury Plaza Hotel and Conference Center
(formerly the Sheraton Hotel), 18 Old Ridgebury Rd. Exit 2, I-84
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A Fundraiser for the Danbury Music Centre
- Viennese Dessert Table
- Dancing
- Silent Auction
- much more . . .
- Period costumes are welcome!
Tickets are $50 – cash bar
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JAMES E. HUMPHREVILLE, Music Director Emeritus, Conducting
(for tickets and info, contact the DMC Office)
- Sunday April 2, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
- In Recital
- Alice Unschold
- Alice Unschold, Soprano
- Carl Tischler, Piano
Recital Series Funding:
- Saturday April 9, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
- In Recital
- Westfield Winds
- Kathy Olsen, Flute
- Jim Thoensen, Oboe
- Ann Howell, Clarinet
- Kim Lemak, Bassoon
- Joe Howell, Horn
Recital Series Funding:
- Sunday May 1, 7:30pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- TBA
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DANBURY COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
STEPHEN MICHAEL SMITH, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
Funding for the Concert Mentor:
- Saturday May 7, 8:00pm ... First Congregational Church, West St. and Deer Hill Ave.
- Bach's Sleepers Awake,
the opening Chorus from C.P.E. Bach's Magnificat,
Humperdinck's Prayer from Hansel and Gretel,
The Promise of Living by Aaron Copland
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS
CHRIS SHEPARD, Guest Conductor
Major Funding:
- Saturday May 14, 8:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
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- Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony,
Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, and
Knoxville: Summer 1915 by Samuel Barber
- Laura Vlasak-Nolen, Mezzo-Soprano
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
- Saturday June ?, 7:30pm ... CityCenter Bandshell, on the Green
Rain Location: Broadview Middle School Auditorium on Hospital Ave.
- CityCenter Danbury
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Come early and have a picnic!
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
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