Good Afternoon, Senior Symphony!
Happy Holidays! Can you believe it’s that time of year already! I am so proud of all you have done this fall—you are all just incredible.
I also sense that you are really enjoying this new music, and that makes me happy, too! Here’s what I think we should do on Monday:
December 6, 2023
5:20 – Report to Sectionals
5:30 – Work on Coleridge-Taylor, then Villa-Lobos
6:25 – Move to Full Orchestra
6:40 – Coleridge-Taylor, Ballade in A Minor op. 33 (1898)
7:20 – Buxtehude/arr. Chavez, Chaconne in E Minor
7:30 – Break
7:45 – Holiday Music
8:00 – Villa Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (1944)
8:45 – Rehearsal End
MYSO Founders Concert
February 24, 2024, 1:00 pm | Bradley Symphony Center
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) /arr. Chavez, Chaconne in E Minor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875—1912), Ballade in A Minor, Op. 33 (1898)
Lulu’s Wish
MYSO and Senior Symphony will partner with Make-A-Wish Wisconsin to fulfill a wish of a young person they support. Lulu’s wish is to sing with a symphony orchestra and Senior Symphony is honored to help make Lulu’s wish come true.
Song Set:
Kurt Weill/Anderson, “September Song” from Knickerbocker Holiday
Scott Frankel, “Pink” from War Paint
Andrew Lloyd Webber, “As If We Never Said Goodbye” from Sunset Boulevard
John Kander, “Maybe This Time” from Cabaret
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887—1959), Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (1944)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesZ8d-7HBE or
https://youtu.be/u-qIspNyhsU?si=jAu3Va_YfJx7NMbX
Remaining Rehearsals:
- Monday December 4
- Monday, December 11
- Monday, December 18
- Monday, December 25 – NO REHEARSAL – WINTER BREAK
- Monday, January 1 – NO REHEARSAL – WINTER BREAK
- Sunday, January 7, 1:30-3:30 pm
- Monday, January 8 – Sectionals with professional coaches
- Saturday, January 13 – Concerto Competition
- Sunday, January 14, 1:30-4:00 pm
- Monday, January 15 – NO REHEARSAL – MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY
- Monday, January 22
- Monday, January 29
- Monday, February 5
- Monday, February 12
- Monday, February 19
- Friday, February 23, 5:30-7:00 pm, Dress Rehearsal
- Saturday, February 24, Bradley Symphony Center
- 11:00 am-12:15 pm, Sound Check/Dress Rehearsal
- 1:00 pm, Founders Concert