2007 - 2008 Concert Schedule
- SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
- Student performances of the Summer Bands, Choruses, West Afrikan Drumming, and Strings.
Classes began meeting on Monday, July 9th.
- Friday July 20, 7:30 ... Danbury Music Centre
- Student Choruses: Jonathan Pope, Director
- Thursday August 9, 7:30 ... Rogers ark Middle School
- Student Wind Ensembles and Jazz Band: Albert Montecalvo, Director
- Friday August 17, 7:30 ... Rogers Park Middle School
- Student String Ensembles: Larry Deming, Music Director
- Saturday August 18, 7:30 ... CityCenter Green
- Student West Afrikan Drumming performance: Ase-AmenRa Kariamu, Director
- Saturday October 13, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
 In Recital
Sergey Vladimiroff – Pianist
Recital Series Funding: 
- Sunday October 21 . . . Events occur throughout the day at various locations.
The Annual Celebration of
Charles Ives Day
"Fostering" the music of Charles Ives
A hike up Pine Mountain, a tour of the Ives birthplace, a grave site visit,
and some musical "happenings".
- Larry Deming and Nancy F. Sudik, organizers and guides
- Back by popular demand:
Danbury Rag-Tag Players
- Larry Deming and Nicola White, Violins
- Diane King, Flute
- Nancy Sudik, Horn
- Scott King, Euphonium
- Walter Sudik, Double Bass
Contact the DMC if you are going on the Hike up Pine Mountain
so we have a count before Sunday.
Nancy Sudik and Larry Deming are the presenters with cooperation
from the Danbury Museum and Historical Society.
Call for details and reservations.
Recital Series Funding:
- Saturday October 27, 8:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
Viva España!
- Ravel's Rhapsody Espagnole,
Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo, and
the Three Cornered Hat by Manuel de Falla
- Oren Fader, Guitar
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Peg Heetmann
- Saturday November 3, 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 27, 2008.
Recital Series Funding:
- Saturday November 3, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
- In Recital
an Encore Performance by
David Gale – Violinist
Recital Series Funding:
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Sunday November 11, 3:00pm ... St. James Episcopal Church, 25 West St.
- Letters Home
from American Service men and women in times of war
- Johnny has gone for a Soldier; O Danny Boy; And I Saw a New Heaven;
Beat, Beat Drum by Howard Hanson; and Messe Solennelle by Louis Vierne
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS
RICHARD PRICE, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Nancy & Alton Eckert
- Thursday November 29, 7:30pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
A performance by the
DANBURY PREPARATORY STRING ORCHESTRA
GLEN LEBETKIN, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
- Sunday December 2, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
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Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Symphony #1, by William Boyce,
Dvorák's Legends, #3, Mussorgsky's Night On Bald Mountain,
and Respighi's Pines of Rome, the Pines of the Appian Way
DANBURY COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
STEPHEN MICHAEL SMITH, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: 
Funding for the Concert Mentor: 
- Friday December 7, 7:30pm
Saturday December 8, 6:00pm
Sunday December 9, 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
Thursday, Nov. 1st, will have the first opportunity to select seats.
(Tickets cost $15 or $20); ALL seats are reserved;
Public sales begin Nov. 14th; 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 14, 7:30pm ... St. Peter Church, 104 Main St.
- MESSIAH
an Oratorio by Georg Frederic Händel
- Leah Inger, Soprano
- Eunice Hill, Mezzo-Soprano
- Phillip Anderson, Tenor
- Michael Riley, Bass
- Maxim Vladimiroff, Continuo
- Stephen Roberts, Great Organ
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS &
DANBURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
RICHARD PRICE, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
- Sunday January 27, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- Annual Young People's Concert
Postcards from Paris
selections from the Mother Goose Suite by Ravel
Bacchanale from Samson Et Dalila by Saint-Saëns
Also, featuring this year's winner of the DSO Concerto Competition,
Nicole Kilroy, a 12th grade student at Poughkeepsie Day School,
playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, 1st mov't.
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: 
- Saturday February 16, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
- In Recital
Musical Arrows to the Heart
Deming String Quartet
- Larry Deming, Violin and bullhorn
- A mystery guest?
- Barbara Wiggin, Viola
- Mary Costanza, Cello
They will play romantic standards by Bizet, Hoagy Carmichael,
Pietro Mascagni, Chen Gang, He Zhanhao, and of course,
Larry Deming.
Recital Series Funding:
- Sunday March 2, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
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- Overture to Il Matrimonio Segreto by Cimarosa,
Bach'sG Minor Fugue, Brahms' Hungarian Dances,
the Radetzky March by Strauss, and Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag
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 16, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- The Russian Soul
Russlan and Ludmilla by Glinka,
Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky,
and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #2
- Elena Baksht, Piano
Beginning at 2:00pm, there will be
 an Art Exhibit featuring works by
- WCSU faculty and MFA students
- the Candlewood League of Artists
- and our own Rick Gottschalk, photographer
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Fred and Joan Weisman
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- Friday March 28, 8:00pm ... Grand Hotel Ballroom, Sheraton Hotel
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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)
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The Westgate Piano Trio has been POSTPONED!
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- Saturday April 26, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
In Recital
- Men Without Instruments
and
Martini Glass
Doo-wop and Shoo-wop the night away with
Carlos Sousa and his swinging, vocal friends
Recital Series Funding:
- Thursday May 1, 7:30pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
A performance by the
DANBURY PREPARATORY ORCHESTRA
GLEN LEBETKIN, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
- Sunday May 4, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
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- Max Bruch's Swedish Dances, nos. 1 - 7;
Holst's The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity;
the 1st mov't from two symphonies:
William Grant Still – Sym. #1 (An Afro-American Symphony)
and Beethoven's 5th Symphony
and the Connecticut premiere of
Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra by Robert Edward Smith
- James Thoensen, English Horn
DANBURY COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
STEPHEN MICHAEL SMITH, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: 
Funding for the Concert Mentor:
- Saturday May 10, 8:00pm ... St. James Episcopal Church, 25 West St.,
- All Mozart!
- Overture to Don Giovanni
- Missa Brevis
- Requiem in d minor
- Kerry Ryer-Parker, Soprano
- Kirsten Sollek, Mezzo-Soprano
- James Ruff, Tenor
- Keith Kibler, Bass
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS
RICHARD PRICE, Music Director
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Toni K. and John Pepe,
and Margaret Imbro
- Saturday June 21, 7:30pm ... CityCenter Bandshell, on the Green
Rain Location: Danbury High School Auditorium
- CityCenter Danbury
Enjoy a night of classics under the Stars!
Come early and have a picnic!
End the evening with Fireworks!
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
- SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
- Classes are for children entering grade three and higher,
with adults welcomed in certain groups.
Dates, times, and locations to be announced for
student performances
of the Summer Choruses, Bands, West Afrikan Drumming, and Strings.
Class registration usually takes place in May and June.
Send e-mail or call (203) 748-1716 for registration information.
ADMISSION IS FREE TO ALL CONCERTS
Contact the Danbury Music Centre for information about concerts on this calendar
or about joining a performing group.
Phone: (203) 748-1716
Fax: (203) 794-1308
E-Mail: dmc1935@snet.net
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