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North Shore Symphony Orchestra
2011 - 2012 Concert Calendar:
The 51st Season 

Concert I:      "Musical Keys"
                        Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 8:00 PM
                        JFK High School
                        50 Kennedy Drive
                        Plainview, New York 11803

Guest Artists: Winners of the Concert Festival Competition

Maxim Lando – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 (1^st movement)
Elena Gribelyuk – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453 (1^st movement)
Kira Prabhu – Beethoven:  Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19  (1^st movement)
Mozart:  Overture to the Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384
Tchaikovsky:  Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 6

Concert II:     Family Concert: "Sounds of Spring"
                        Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 3:00 PM
                        JFK High School
                        50 Kennedy Drive
                        Plainview, New York 11803

Guest Artists:  Anton Pozhayev, violin
                          

Rossini:  Overture to La gazza ladra
Beethoven:  excerpts from Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastorale"
Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899): Unter Donner und Blitz, Op. 324 (Thunder and Lightning Polka)
Tchaikovsky:  Finale of Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 64
Saint-Saens:   Introduction and Rondo capricciosa, Op. 28 - Anton Polezhayev, violin
Berlioz:  Roman Carnival Overture
Johann Strauss, Sr. (1804-1849): Radetzky March
      Featuring an audience member as conductor of NSSO!

Concert III:  "Viva Spain!":  The Spirit of Spain
                        Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 7:30 PM                      

                        Tilles Center for the Performing Arts

                        C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University

Tickets are $20 General Admission, $10 Student/Senior ($2 facility fee additional)
and are available at:
Tilles Center Box Office: 516.299.3100
or www.tillescenter.org

Guest Artist:  Josu De Solaun, piano

 

Chabrier:  España
De Falla:  Nights in the Gardens of Spain - Josu De Solaun, piano
Manuel de Falla: Introduction (Prelude) from The Three-Cornered Hat (El sombrero de tres picos)
Ravel:  Rapsodie espagnole
Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1

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Concert IV:    "Worldly Adventures": Music From Around the World
                        Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM

                        JFK High School

                        50 Kennedy Drive
                    Plainview, New York 11803

Guest Artist: Hye-Jin Kim, violin

Suppé:  Overture to Poet and Peasant
Khachaturian:  Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - Hye-Jin Kim, violin
Sibelius:  Finlandia, Op. 26
Dvorak:  Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 8

All Concerts and soloists are subject to change

NSSO members: Click here for the rehearsal schedule

Residency at Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School Plainview, NY

The History of the North Shore Symphony Orchestra

Founded in 1961 by Dr. Charles Gouse, the North Shore Symphony Orchestra has provided a way for hundreds of individuals from all professions and ages to share their enthusiasm for orchestral music. Many members of the orchestra attended the country’s leading conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School of Music. The North Shore Symphony Orchestra presents a series of four concerts each year, which include performances of standard orchestral repertoire as well as newly commissioned contemporary pieces. Featured soloists have included promising young Long Island musicians, members of the New York Philharmonic and professional young musicians. In 1990 Susan Deaver was appointed as Music Director and Conductor and re-established NSSO as one of Long Island’s finest community orchestras.

In 1993 the North Shore Symphony Orchestra established a Young Artist Award to recognize outstanding high school musicians, a competition which is now held every two years. In the fall of 2008 NSSO’s Artist-in-Residence program was established by Maestra Deaver to bring top caliber professional musicians to serve as concertmaster and mentor to the orchestra in both rehearsals and concerts. This program broadens the orchestra’s creative and musical experience and provides an opportunity for NSSO to provide educational outreach within the school districts of its Long Island community.

The North Shore Symphony Orchestra is supported by Friends of the North Shore Symphony Orchestra, registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization, and registered with the Charities Bureau in the New York State Office of the Attorney General. All contributions to Friends of the North Shore Symphony Orchestra are tax-deductible.

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