1992/1993 Season Listing

I. SIBELIUS

    En Saga - Jean Sibelius
    Luonnotar - Jean Sibelius
        Diane Cushing, soprano
    Lemminkäinen's Homecoming - Jean Sibelius
    Concerto in D Minor for violin and orchestra - Jean Sibelius
        Qing Hou, violin
    Finlandia - Jean Sibelius

    October 24 & 25, 1992

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II. GREETING THE SEASON

    Concerto in C Major for Two Trumpets - Antonio Vivaldi
        Russell Hair and Antonio Dangerfield, trumpet soloists
    Make We Merry - 13th century
    Ding Dong Merrily On High - 16th century, arr. Willcocks
        SPM Youth Chrous and Leominster Youth Chorus, Jan Patterson, director
    Shepherd's Pipe Carol - John Rutter
        SPM Chorale, Barbara Durost, director
    Suite on the Nativity, Op. 3 - Marie Stultz
        SPM Chorale, Youth Chorus and Leominster Youth Chorus
        with members of the Stow Festival Chorus
    Gloria - Antonio Vivaldi
        SPM Chorale, Youth Chorus and Chamber Singers and Leominster Youth Chorus
        Stow Festival Chorus, Barbara Jones, director
        Laurie Burke, alto soloist

    December 5 & 6, 1992

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III. LA TRAVIATA

    La Traviata
        Music by Giuseppe Verdi
        Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
        with the Salisbury Lyric Opera Company

    February 5 & 7, 1993

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IV. AMERICAN INSPIRATION

    "Farewell to America" Waltz - Strauss
    "A Frenchman in New York" - Darius Milhaud
    Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" - Antonín Dvorák

    March 27 & 28, 1993

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V. BEETHOVEN

    Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op. 125, "Choral" - Ludwig van Beethoven
        Jing Wei, soprano
        Margaret Tartaglia Konkol, mezzo soprano
        Sanghoon Oak, tenor
        Ronald Williams, baritone
        with The Salisbury Singers, Jean Whitcomb, director
        and The SPM Chorale, William Wright, director

    May 22 & 23, 1993

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