The Great Outdoors
with the Hofstra Symphony and Chamber Orchestras
featuring Jessica Taskov, flute

Program:

Finzi: A Severn Rhapsody Puccini: Chrysanthemums
Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in D major, Op. 10, No. 3 - “The Goldfinch”, featuring Jessica Taskov, flute
Wagner: Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Humperdinck ending) from the opera Götterdämmerung
Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony: 2. Bridal Song and 3. Serenade
Delibes: Suite from the ballet Sylvia

Free admission. No tickets required.

Adam Glaser, conductor
ADEA Quartet, horns

Program:
Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps (Of a Spring Morning)
Robert Schumann: Concertpiece for 4 Horns, Op. 86
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra
Adam Glaser, conductor
Valentina Chen, violin

Program:
Dame Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers: Overture
William Grant Still: Threnody (In Memory of Jean Sibelius)
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in Eb major, Op. 82

Livestream available at this link: https://www.juilliard.edu/event/163566/pre-college-symphony

Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra
Adam Glaser, conductor
Alan Truong, assistant conductor
Jun Shimada, piano

Program:
Weber: Die Freischutz Overture (conducted by Alan Truong)
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43
William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony (1934)

Livestream available at this link: https://www.juilliard.edu/event/163531/pre-college-orchestra

Adam Glaser, conductor
Cameron Zandieh, violin
Charles Zandieh, cello
Christopher Zandieh, piano

Program:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: “African Dance" from African Suite, Op. 35
Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. 56
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54

Smetana: Bartered Bride: Overture
Jack Damon: After a Hundred Years… (world premiere)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
Beach: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 32 (Gaelic)

Hofstra Symphony Orchestra and Hofstra Chamber Orchestra
Adam Glaser, music director and conductor
presents

New Neighbors: Music Written and Inspired by Immigrants and Refugees

featuring
David Lalama, piano
Martin Wind, bass
Tony Tedesco, drums
Georgia Shehas, saxophone

Program:
Béla Bartók: Sketches and Bagatelles
Astor Piazzolla (arr. James Kazik): Libertango
Chen Yi: Chinese Folk Songs
Ernest Bloch: Concerto Grosso No. 1 (selections)
Ernst von Dohnányi: American Rhapsody
Bohuslav Martinů: Memorial to Lidice
Andrés Soto: En El Barco viene una Rosa
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise
Martin Wind: From Fjord to Hudson: Suite for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra (selections)
Adam Glaser (arr. David Lalama): The Promised Land

Free admission.
Funding for this concert has been provided by a grant from the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Friday, December 1, 2023 at 7:00pm
Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 5:00pm
Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 3:00pm

Presented by the Rockville Centre Guild for the Arts and Leggz Ltd. Dance.

Kevin Day: Lightspeed: A Fanfare for Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Prelude: 49th Parallel
John Williams: Star Wars Suite
J. Rosamond Johnson (arr. Roland Carter): Lift Every Voice and Sing (with the New Jersey All-State Mixed Choir)

Valerie Coleman: Seven O’Clock Shout
John Williams: Born on the Fourth of July
Leonard Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From the New World"

Kevin Day: Lightspeed: A Fanfare for Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Prelude: 49th Parallel
John Williams: Star Wars Suite
J. Rosamond Johnson (arr. Roland Carter): Lift Every Voice and Sing (with the New Jersey All-State Mixed Choir)

Brott Festival Orchestra performs Glaser's "March of the Little Goblins" (2 performances) Education concert: "The Search for the Magic of Music" Tania Miller, conductor

Panama City Symphony Orchestra performs Glaser's "March of the Little Goblins." Sergey Bogza, conductdor

North Carolina Symphony performs Glaser's "March of the Little Goblins" (2 performances -- 1pm and 4pm) Michelle Di Russo, conductor

Omaha Symphony performs Glaser's "March of the Little Goblins." Alejandro Gómez Guillén conducts.

The Mid-Atlantic Symphony is pleased to announce its upcoming Jazz Septet concerts, scheduled for May 11 at the Avalon Theatre in Easton, MD and May 12 at Epworth United Methodist Church in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Led by jazz pianist Adam Glaser and featuring some of the talented jazz musicians of the MSO, the Jazz Septet will perform an eclectic program of classic jazz standards, as well as original compositions from Glaser’s catalog.

Jazz Septet featuring: Adam Glaser, piano Daniel Wallace, woodwinds Russell Kirk, woodwinds David Ballou, trumpet Nicholas Mazziott, trombone Christopher Chlumsky, bass Dane Krich, drums

Tickets: $35.

The Mid-Atlantic Symphony is pleased to announce its upcoming Jazz Septet concerts, scheduled for May 11 at the Avalon Theatre in Easton, MD and May 12 at Epworth United Methodist Church in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Led by jazz pianist Adam Glaser and featuring some of the talented jazz musicians of the MSO, the Jazz Septet will perform an eclectic program of classic jazz standards, as well as original compositions from Glaser’s catalog.

Jazz Septet featuring: Adam Glaser, piano Daniel Wallace, woodwinds Russell Kirk, woodwinds David Ballou, trumpet Nicholas Mazziott, trombone Christopher Chlumsky, bass Dane Krich, drums

Tickets: $35.

Adam Glaser, Conductor

Chuyi (Lucy) LUO In the Conversation (2022; World premiere) Amanda HARBERG Solis GLIÈRE Concerto for Harp, Opus 74, E-flat major TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 (“Ukrainian”)

Watch the performance on this page (at the above link) at the scheduled date and time. This performance won’t be available to stream afterward on demand.

Poetry in Motion (Music Inspired by Words)

Music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Aaron Copland, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Anatoly Lyadov, Andrés Maldonado, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vincent Persichetti, Henry Purcell, and Stephen Sondheim

Words by Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, T.S. Eliot, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Shakespeare, Stephen Sondheim, and Henry Wallace, and an anonymous author

featuring Rocco Castrogiovanni, trumpet Emily Oberstein, soprano Readers from Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Adam Glaser, Conductor Keyi Wang, Piano

Jennifer HIGDON blue cathedral (2000) LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major

Watch the performance on this page (at the above link) at the scheduled date and time. This performance won’t be available to stream afterward on demand.