* Northwest Composer

Concert 1

Family Concert "Dance and the Dueling Violins"

7:30 pm, Friday, October 25, 2008
Highline Performing Arts Center

Polovtsian Dances, Alexander Borodin
Hungarian Dance No. 5, Johannes Brahms
Ritual Fire Dance, Manuel de Falla
Marche Slav, Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
Return of the Wooden Soldiers, Ed Hartman*
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Camille Saint-Saens
with soloist Emily Choi
Tzigane, Maurice Ravel
with soloist Paul Kim

Children are welcome to wear a
favorite costume or one they've created

Concert 2

Children's Hospital Benefit Concert

An annual benefit concert sponsored by the Symphony Guild with proceeds benefitting uncompensated care at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center

8:00 PM, Friday, November 7, 2008
Benaroya Hall, Taper Auditorium

A concert written & produced by
Mateo Messina

Concert 3

Valentine's Concert

8:00 PM, Thursday, February 13, 2009
Highline Performing Arts Center

Piano Concerto No. 2, Sergei Rachmaninoff
with soloist Yuka Sasaki
Prayer of Saint Gregory, Alan Hovhaness*
with soloist Natalie Dungey
Symphony No. 1, Johannes Brahms

Concert 4

Spotlight on the Orchestra

8:00 PM, Saturday, March 7, 2009
Holy Rosary Church, West Seattle

In Retrospect (from Janus), Samuel Jones*
Four Last Songs, Richard Strauss
with soloist Alexandra Picard
Mathis der Maler, Paul Hindemith

Concert 5

Reflections of the Northwest

8:00 PM, Saturday, April 25, 2009
Highline Performing Arts Center

In Prospect (from Janus), Samuel Jones*
Redwoods Symphony, Jonathan Middleton*
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, Glenn Crytzer*
with soloist Joshua Roman