
2012 - 2013 Concert Schedule
- SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
- Student performances of the Summer Bands, Chorus, West Afrikan Drumming, and Strings.
Classes began meeting on Monday, July 9th.
- Thursday August 2, 7:30 ... Rogers Park Middle School
- Student Wind Ensembles and Jazz Band: Albert Montecalvo, Director
- Friday August 3, 7:30 ... Rogers Park Middle School
- Student String Ensembles: Larry Deming, Music Director
- Thursday August 9, 7:30 ... CityCenter Green
- Student West Afrikan Drumming: Ase-AmenRa Kariamu, Director
- Sunday October 21 . . . Events occur throughout the day at various locations.
The Annual Celebration of
Charles Ives Day
The Unanswered Question
A hike up Pine Mountain, a tour around the Ives birth home, a grave site visit, and some musical "happenings". The day
will end with a performance of Ives' The Unanswered Question and some well known (and not so well known) songs. The performance will take place at the top of the Bardo Parking Garage on Library Place, behind the Danbury Music Centre. |
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- Anthony Nunes, Trumpet
- some members of the Danbury Symphony Orchestra
- The Danbury Brass Band, Alan Raph Music Director
9:30am Hike up Pine Mountain (meet near the top of Pine Mountain Rd., Danbury)
12:00pm Visit the Charles Ives birth home on Mountainville Ave. (meet at the home)
1:30pm Visit Charles Ives' grave site in Wooster Cemetery (meet in section M , off of Ellsworth Ave.)
3:00pm A musical presentation on the top floor of the Bardo Parking Garage.
Larry Deming and Nancy F. Sudik, are the organizers and guides.
Contact the DMC if you are going on the Hike up Pine Mountain so we have a count before Sunday morning.
Major Funding:
- Friday October 26, 8:00pm ... St. Peter Church
The King of Instruments
- Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony, No. 3
Händel's Organ Concerto in g minor
Danse Bacchanale, by Saint-Saëns
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, 2013.
Recital Series Funding:
- Sunday November 4, 3:00pm ... First Congregational Church, West St. and Deer Hill Ave.
Songs of Love and Praise
- Whitacre's Five Hebrew Love Songs,
Rutter's Te Deum, and more . . . with the Danbury Symphony Brass and Strings.
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS
CHRISTINE R. HOWLETT, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Nancy & Alton Eckert
- Sunday December 2, 7:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
Winter Concert
Frost Ice Hail Snow
von Weber's Oberon Overture, Glazunov's The Seasons: Winter Sleigh Ride by Delius and some of Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 in F Major
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 $10 to $25); ALL seats are reserved;
Public sales begin on Thursday, Nov. 15th; call (203) 748-1716.
Major Funding:


West Connecticut Podiatry
The Danbury Cultural Commission
Anna Walter and Bill Fricke
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| Dec. 14th Postponed |
Messiah rescheduled for Friday, January 11, 2013 7:30pm |
- Friday December 14, 7:30pm ... First Congregational Church, West St. and Deer Hill Ave.
MESSIAH
an Oratorio by Georg Frederic Händel
- Wendy Baker, Soprano
- Teresa Buchholz, Mezzo-Soprano
- Mark A. Boyle, Tenor
- Dashon Burton, Baritone
- Maxim Vladimiroff, Continuo
- Fiona Smith Sutherland, Organ
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS & DANBURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
CHRISTINE R. HOWLETT, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
| Postponed |
Rescheduled for Saturday, Dec. 22, 8:00pm |
- Saturday December 15, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
In Recital
The Danbury Trombone Outfit
- Christmas Music Familiar and New
Recital Series Funding:
- Sunday January 27, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
Annual Young People's Concert
Variations in Music A Musical Tutti Frutti
- Variations On A Theme Of Joseph Haydn by Brahms
Khachaturian's Sabre Dance and The Merrymakers by Eric Coates
Also, featuring this year's winner of the DSO Student Concerto Competition, pianist Richard Huffman. He is a junior at Newtown High School and will play the final movement of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
of Brookfield
- Sunday March 3, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- A Combined Concert of 100 Musicians!
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España by Chabrier
mov'ts IV and V of Schumann's Symphony No, 3, the Rhenish Symphony
and Dvorak's 5th Symphony, the last movement
There will also be several selections by the DPSO and a combined number:
The Grand March from Aida, by Verdi
DANBURY PREPARATORY STRING ORCHESTRA
GLEN LEBETKIN, Music Director and Conductor
DANBURY COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
STEPHEN MICHAEL SMITH, Music Director and Conductor
Partial Funding: West Connecticut Podiatry
Funding for the Concert Mentor: 
- Sunday March 10, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- Best Friends: Brahms and Schumann
Brahms' Symphony No. 4
Schumann's Cello Concerto
and Overture to Genoveva by Schumann
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Joan and Stephen Howard
- Saturday March 16, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
In Recital
Alice Pantone Unschuld
Back by popular demand!
Recital Series Funding:
- Saturday March 23, 6:30-11:00 ... Anthony's Lake Club, 10 Christopher Columbus Ave. on Lake Kenosia
9th Annual Grand Gala
 
A Fundraiser for the Danbury Music Centre
- Four course, full service, sit-down dinner
- Cabaret
- Silent Auction
- and much more . . .
Tickets are $75 Cash Bar
(for tickets and info, contact the DMC Office)
- Saturday April 27, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
In Recital
Westfield Winds Quintet
Recital Series Funding:
- Sunday May 5, 7:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
New Horizons
- An Outdoor Overture by Copland
Bach's (Stokowsky) Toccata and Fugue in d minor The Swan of Tuonela by Sebelius with Jim Thoensen, English Horn soloist
and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in e minor, 4th mov't.
also featuring Chromatic Metamorphosis by high school senior and principal Cellist, Alex Lampel |
DANBURY COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
STEPHEN MICHAEL SMITH, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Joan and Stephen Howard in memory of Eloise Childress, music teacher
Funding for the Concert Mentor: 
- Saturday May 11, 8:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
The Bells
- a contata by Sergei Rachmaninoff
text by Edgar Allan Poe
- Kelly Griffin, Soprano
- Christian Reinert, Tenor
- Peter Walker, Baritone
- Polovetsian Dances (Kismet) by Alexander Borodin
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS
CHRISTINE R. HOWLETT, Music Director
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Toni K. and John Pepe
and Margaret Imbro
Partial Funding: Harcourt Foundation and the Woman's Club of Danbury/New Fairfield

- Saturday June 15, 7:30pm ... CityCenter Bandshell, on the Green
Rain Location:
CityCenter Danbury
presents
Beautiful Music Under the Stars
The 3 B's Broadway, Big Band, & Beyond
Music by composers such as Anderson, Bernstein, Copland, Ellington, Sousa, and Stevie Wonder
Featuring Zoe Lonsinger playing the 1st mov't. of Edouard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole. Zoe was one of the finalists in the 2012 Student Concerto Contest. He is a 3rd grade violin prodigy from Sandy Hook.
Come early and have a picnic!
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Albert Montecalvo, Conductor
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