2011 - 2012 Concert Schedule
- SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
- Student performances of the Summer Bands, Chorus, West Afrikan Drumming, and Strings.
Classes began meeting on Tuesday, July 5th.
- Friday July 15, 7:30 ... Danbury Music Centre
- Student Chorus: Jonathan Pope, Director
- Thursday August 4, 7:30 ... Rogers Park Middle School
- Student Wind Ensembles and Jazz Band: Albert Montecalvo, Director
- Thursday August 11, 7:30 ... CityCenter Green
- Student West Afrikan Drumming: Ase-AmenRa Kariamu, Director
- Friday August 12, 7:30 ... Rogers Park Middle School
- Student String Ensembles: Larry Deming, Music Director
- Sunday October 16 . . . Events occur throughout the day at various locations.
- The Annual Celebration of
Charles Ives Day
The Camp Meeting
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' Symphony No. 3,
The Camp Meeting. The performance will take place
at the top of the Parking Garage on Library Place,
behind the Danbury Music Centre. |
 |
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.)
4:00pm 'Gather' on the top floor of the parking garage to listen to a performance of
Ives' 3rd Symphony, Camp Meeting
After-concert reception compliments of the Danbury Parking Authority
Larry Deming and Nancy F. Sudik, are the organizers and guides.
The Danbury Symphony Orchestra, Albert Montecalvo, conducting
Contact the DMC if you are going on the Hike up Pine Mountain
so we have a count before Sunday morning.
Co-sponsered by the Danbury Parking Authority
Major Funding: 
- Saturday October 22, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
Benefit Recital
Zombie Jamboree
an a capella treat!
featuring
Men Without Instruments and Special Guests
Wine and Cheese reception to follow the performance
Tickets will be sold at the door for $15.
- Saturday November 5, 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 29, 2012.
Recital Series Funding:
- Sunday November 6, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
Clash of the Titans
- Brahms'Academic Festival Overture
Praeludium and Allegro by Kreisler
Symphony No. 1, by Mahler
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Peg Heetmann
(The Brahms' Piano Concerto has been rescheduled for March 11, 2012)
- Sunday November 13, 4:00pm ... First Congregational Church, West St. and Deer Hill Ave.
- Sacred – Worldly – Celestial
- How Lovely are the Messengers, The Road Not Taken,
and Christmas Contata by Daniel Pinkham
with the
Danbury Symphony Brass
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS
CHRISTINE R. HOWLETT, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Nancy & Alton Eckert
- Sunday December 4, 7:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- Triumphs and Tragedies
Dvorak's Otello Overture,
Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino
Ensueño and Orgia from Danzas Fantasticas by Joaquin Turina
and the 4th mov't. from Beethoven's Symphony No. 4
DANBURY COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
STEPHEN MICHAEL SMITH, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: 
Funding for the Concert Mentor: 
- Friday December 9, 7:30pm
Saturday December 10, 6:00pm
Sunday December 11, 3:00pm ... Danbury High School, Clapboard Ridge Rd., Rt. 39
-
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
Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, will have the first opportunity to select seats.
(Tickets cost $10 to $25); ALL seats are reserved;
Public sales begin on Thursday, Nov. 17th; call (203) 748-1716.
Major Funding:
 West Connecticut Podiatry
The Danbury Cultural Commission
Anna Walter and Bill Fricke
with additional funding in memory of
Alice Kenner
|
- Friday December 16, 7:30pm ... First Congregational Church, West St. and Deer Hill Ave.
- MESSIAH
an Oratorio by Georg Frederic Händel
- Courtenay Budd, Soprano
- Jacquelyn Matava, Mezzo-Soprano
- James Ruff, Tenor
- Curtis Streetman, Baritone
- Maxim Vladimiroff, Continuo
- Fiona Smith Sutherland, Organ
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS &
DANBURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
CHRISTINE R. HOWLETT, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
- Sunday January 29, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- Annual Young People's Concert
The Thrill of the Orcherstra
- The Thrill of the Orchestra by Russell Peck
Haydn's Toy Symphony and
Symphonie Espangnole, 1st mov't by Edouard Lalo
Anastasia is this year's winner of the DSO Student Concerto Competition,
and is a senior at New Fairfield High School.
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Dr. and Mrs. Steven Moore & Family
- Sunday March 4, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- A Combined Concert of 100 Musicians!
Sibelius' Symphony No. 2, 4th mov't.
Conga del Fuego Nuevo by Arturo Márquez
There will also be several selections by the DPSO and a combined number.
DANBURY PREPARATORY STRING ORCHESTRA
GLEN LEBETKIN, Music Director and Conductor
DANBURY COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
STEPHEN MICHAEL SMITH, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding:
Funding for the Concert Mentor:
- Sunday March 11, 3:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- Back to Basics – the Three B's
Bach - Beethoven - Brahms
Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 for two Violas,
Beethoven's Symphony No. 1
and
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1
- Ariel Rudiakov, Viola
- Scott Woolweaver, Viola
- Will Duchon (from WMNR), Piano
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Fred and Joan Weisman
- Sunday March 17, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
- In Recital
Alice Pantone Unschuld
&
Carl Tichler
Back by popular demand! This year she will sing some Tchaikovsky songs in Russian,
Bel canto style songs in Italian by Bellini, an aria by Händel, some neopolitan songs,
and of course, Irish songs in honor of St Patrick's day!
Recital Series Funding: 
- Friday March 30, 8:00pm ... the Grand Ballroom of the Matrix Conference and Banquet Center
39 Old Ridgebury Rd. Exit 1, I-84
- 8th Annual Grand Gala
A Fundraiser for the Danbury Music Centre
- Viennese Dessert Table
- Continuous Dancing
- Silent Auction
- much more . . .
Tickets are $75 – cash bar
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JAMES E. HUMPHREVILLE, Music Director Emeritus, Conducting
and a Dance Band
(for tickets and info, contact the DMC Office)
- Saturday April 28, 8:00pm ... Marian Anderson Recital Hall
- In Recital
- Christine Howlett and Friends
Recital Series Funding:
- Sunday May 6, 7:00pm ... Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St.
- Copland's Hoe Down,
Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien,
and Huapango by José Pablo Moncayo-García
DANBURY COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
STEPHEN MICHAEL SMITH, Music Director and Conductor
Major Funding: Susan and Robert Payne
Funding for the Concert Mentor:
- Saturday May 12, 8:00pm ... St. James Episcopal Church, 25 West St.
- Fauré's Requiem and
Poulenc's Gloria
DANBURY CONCERT CHORUS
CHRISTINE R. HOWLETT, Music Director and Conductor
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director
Major Funding:
- Saturday tba, 7:30pm ... CityCenter Bandshell, on the Green
Rain Location:
- CityCenter Danbury
presents
Beautiful Music Under the Stars
DANBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ARIEL RUDIAKOV, Music Director and Conductor
|
