Orchestra Concerts
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Next Concert:
Our next concert will be on Thursday, May 22, 7pm at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, in collaboration with the ERHS band program. We will play some of Beethoven's Symphony #7 and an overture by Emilie Mayer (the "female Beethoven"), among other pieces.
Future concert dates:
Concerts 2025-26 TBD
Past concerts:
Sunday, February 23, 2025, 3pm in the Community Center gym for Black History Month
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Danse Negre
Quinn Mason - Symphony No. 5, Harmonia
Joseph Bologne - Symphony No. 1
Florence Price - Ethiopia's Shadow in America
Sunday, November 10, 2024, 4pm in the Community Center gym
Fanny Mendelssohn Overture
Carlos Gardel "Por la Cabeza"
Dvorak Slavonic Dance Op.46 No.1
Florence Price "Adoration"
Dvorak's New World Symphony
Watch a video of the concert here.
Click here for program notes written by a music historian from Howard University
Sunday, June 2, 2024: joint concert with Greenbelt Concert Band at the Community Center.
Program:
COPLAND Outdoor Overture
PARRY An English Suite vii. Frolic
Two Sea Shanties for String Orchestra - arr John Mock
COPLAND Suite from “The City”
Watch a short video clip of us rehearsing the Greenbelt theme from The City!
Listen to an audio recording of the concert here
Tuesday, May 21, 2024: event at the Cinema at 7:30pm, including a viewing of the 1939 documentary The City, with music by Aaron Copland. A small group from the orchestra demonstrated Copland's main themes from the soundtrack before the film started and performed the Greenbelt music when the film reached that point.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Overture to “Don Giovanni”
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 “Unfinished”
FELIX MENDELSSOHN String Symphony No. 2 in D major
PERCY GRAINGER “Children’s March”
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS:Suite in D major, op. 49
PERCY GRAINGER “Irish Tune from County Derry”
Listen to an audio recording here
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario”), K.486: Overture
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
SETH GLABMAN: Soundscape Rhapsody #1
EDWARD ELGAR: Serenade for String Orchestra in E minor, Op. 20
CARL MARIA VON WEBER: Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn: Overture