2002/2003 Season Listing

I. Masterworks

    Prometheus Overture - Beethoven
    Songs of Innocence and Experience - Bell, with
        Pro Musica Youth Chorus,
        Jan Patterson, Director 
        New England Conservatory Children's Chorus,
        Jean Meltaus, Director 
    Symphony No. 1 - Sibelius

    Saturday, November 9, 7:30 p.m., Bolton
    Sunday, November 10, 3:30 p.m., Westborough HS

    program notes

Messiah Sing

    Messiah - Handel
        with the Assabet Valley Mastersingers 
        Dr. Robert Eaton, director. 

    Sunday, Dec 15, First Church Marlborough (Congregational),4:00

II. Celebration

    Academic Festival Overture - Brahms
    An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise - Maxwell Davies
    The Fourth of July - Ives
    Suite from "Water Music" - Handel, arr. Harty
    Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin, 3rd movement - Bruch
    Excerpt from the Finale of Symphony No. 9 - Beethoven, with
        string students from the Sudbury and Westborough Public Schools 

    Saturday, January 11, 7:30 p.m., Bolton
    Sunday, January 12, 3:30 p.m., Westborough HS
 
    program notes

III. Humor in Music

    Divertissement - Ibert
    Selections from "The Buffoon" - Prokofiev
    Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks - Strauss

    Saturday, March 15, 7:30 p.m., Bolton
    Sunday, March 16, 3:30 p.m., Westborough HS

    program notes

IV. Jazz at the Symphony

    The Creation of the World - Milhaud
    Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra - Bolcom
        Michael Norsworthy, clarinet 
    Ragtime - Stravinsky
    An American in Paris - Gershwin

    Saturday, May 3, 7:30 p.m., Bolton
    Sunday, May 4, 7:30 p.m., Mill Pond School, Westborough

    program notes