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2008 Schedule Week 1 - June 22-28 Sun 22 Mon 23 Tues 24 Wed 25 Thurs 26 Fri 27 Sat 28 Stefan Sanderling, conductor. Horacio Gutiérrez, piano Saturday, June 28 - 8:15 p.m. Horacio Gutiérrez is a Steinway Artist. The evening celebrates Chautauqua's first season as an All-Steinway Festival. Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 - Emperor (Ludwig van Beethoven) 38' Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Dmitri Shostakovich) 44' a Week 2 - June 29-July 5 Sun 29 Mon 30 Tues 1 Stefan Sanderling, conductor. Jennifer Frautschi, violin Wed 2 Thurs 3 Fri 4 Pops Concert. Stuart Chafetz, guest conductor Kevin Gray, tenor Sat 5 Stefan Sanderling, conductor. Brian Reagin, violin Tuesday, July 1 - 8:15 p.m. Khovantchina: Introduction - Shostakovich version (Modest Mussorgsky) 5' Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 82 (Alexander Glazunov) 21' Pictures at an Exhibition - Ashkenazy version (Modest Mussorgsky) 32' Friday, July 4 - 8:00 p.m. Independence Day Concert: "Broadway and Beyond" "The Star Spangled Banner" (Traditional) 3' West Side Story Overture (Leonard Bernstein) 5' National Emblem: March (Edwin Eugene Bagley) 5' "This is the Moment" from Jekyll & Hyde (Frank Wildhorn/Leslie Bricusse) 5' "Guido's Song" from Nine (Maury Yeston) 5' Selections from Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin) 10' "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha (Joe Darion/Mitch Leigh) 5' An American in Paris (George Gershwin) 16' "Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd-Webber) 5' Armed Forces on Parade (arr. Robert Lowden) 5' 1812 Overture, Op. 49 (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) 5' Saturday, July 5 - 8:15 p.m. Brian Reagin is concertmaster of the CSO. "The Fourth of July" from Holidays Symphony (Charles Ives) 7' Violin Concerto (George Frederick McKay) 26' Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (Ludwig van Beethoven) 36' a Week 3 - July 6-12 Sun 6 Mon 7 Tues 8 Chautauqua Ballet Company. Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, director. Grant Cooper, guest conductor. Wed 9 Thurs 10 Fri 11 Sat 12 Stefan Sanderling, conductor. Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano. Tuesday, July 8 - 8:15 p.m. Saturday, July 12 - 8:15 p.m. Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (Sergei Rachmaninoff) 35' Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44 (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) 50' a Week 4 - July 13-19 Sun 13 Mon 14 Tues 15 "Sousa at the Symphony" Pops Concert. Keith Brion, guest conductor Lee Merrill, soprano Wed 16 Thurs 17 Daniel Meyer, guest conductor. Zuill Bailey, cello Fri 18 Sat 19 Opera Highlights Concert. Antony Walker, guest conductor. Chautauqua Opera Young Artists Tuesday, July 15 - 8:15 p.m. "Sousa at the Symphony" Thursday, July 17 - 8:15 p.m. Daniel Meyer is Music Director of the Erie (PA) Philharmonic. Rainbow Body - 2000 (Christopher Theofanidis) 12' Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Camille Saint-Saëns) 19' “Méditation” from Thaïs (Jules Massenet) 5' Enigma Variations, Op. 36 (Edward Elgar) 29' Saturday, July 19 - 8:15 p.m. Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Opera Young Artists Program. a Week 5 - July 20-26 Sun 20 Mon 21 Tues 22 Edwin Outwater, guest conductor. Michael Burritt, marimba. Wed 23 Thurs 24 Chautauqua Theater Company -- Celebrating its 25th Anniversary. Timothy Muffitt, guest conductor. Fri 25 Sat 26 Stefan Sanderling, conductor. Sara Buechner, piano Finger Lakes Choral Festival. Adrian Horn, director. Tuesday, July 22 - 8:15 p.m. Edwin Outwater is Music Director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, Canada Nocturne for Chamber Orchestra (Colin McPhee) 7' Concerto #1 for Marimba and String Orchestra - 1992 (Ney Rosauro) 18' "Saturday Night Waltz" from Rodeo (Aaron Copland) 4' Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland) 23' Thursday, July 24 - 8:15 p.m. Chautauqua Theater Company -- Celebrating its 25th Anniversary. Tod und Verklarung, Op. 24 - Death and Transfiguration (Richard Strauss) 23' Every Good Boy Deserves Favor: A Play for Actors and Orchestra (Text by Tom Stoppard, Music by André Previn) 60' Saturday, July 26 - 8:15 p.m. Overture to Fidelio, Op. 72b (Ludwig van Beethoven) 6' Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 (Ludwig van Beethoven) 26' Leonore Overture No. 3 (Ludwig van Beethoven) 14' Fantasia for Piano, Chorus & Orchestra - Choral Fantasy, Op. 80 (Ludwig van Beethoven) 19' Malinda Haslett, soprano Quinn Patrick, mezzo-soprano Jonathan Boyd, tenor Grady Bailey, III, tenor Derrick Smith, baritone a Week 6 - July 27-August 2 Sun 27 Mon 28 Tues 29 Grant Cooper, guest conductor. Laura Aikin, soprano. Wed 30 Thurs 31 Stefan Sanderling, conductor. Joan Kwuon, violin Fri 1 Sat 2 Opera Pops Concert. Chautauqua Opera Young Artists. Jack Everly, guest conductor. Tuesday, July 29 - 8:15 p.m. Grant Cooper is the Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and former Resident Conductor of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Overture: Aotearoa (Douglas Gordon Lilburn) 8' "Ophelia's Mad Scene" from Hamlet (Ambroise Thomas) Overture to Nabucco (Giuseppe Verdi) 8' "Glitter and be Gay" from Candide (Leonard Bernstein) 6' Pines of Rome (Ottorino Respighi) 23' Thursday, July 31 - 8:15 p.m. Petite Suite (Claude Debussy) 13' Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 (Serge Prokofiev) 26' Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K.550 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) 35' Saturday, August 2 - 8:15 p.m. "A Cole Porter Celebration." Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Opera Young Artist Program. a Week 7 - August 3-9 Sun 3 Mon 4 Tues 5 Wed 6 Thurs 7 JoAnn Falletta, guest conductor. William Wolfram, piano. Fri 8 Sat 9 North Carolina Dance Theatre in residence with Chautauqua Ballet. Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, director. Grant Cooper, guest conductor. Thursday, August 7 - 8:15 p.m. JoAnn Falletta is Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic. Seven Passages (Behzad Ranjbaran) 10' Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major (Franz Liszt) 19' Scheherazade, Op. 35 (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) 42' Saturday, August 9 - 8:15 p.m. a Week 8 - August 10-16 Sun 10 Mon 11 Tues 12 Stefan Sanderling, conductor. Alexander Ghindin, piano Wed 13 Thurs 14 Pops Concert. Jack Everly, guest conductor. Fri 15 Sat 16 Stefan Sanderling, conductor. Andrew Armstrong, piano Tuesday, August 12 - 8:15 p.m. Alexander Ghindin is the winner of the 2007 Cleveland International Piano Competition. L’Ascension (Olivier Messiaen) 27' Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 (Sergei Rachmaninoff) 33' Thursday, August 14 - 8:15 p.m. Saturday, August 16 - 8:15 p.m. Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) 4' Piano Concerto No. 23, in A Major, K.488 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) 26' Concerto for Orchestra (Béla Bartók) 36' a Week 9 - August 17-23 Sun 17 Mon 18 Tues 19 Stefan Sanderling, conductor. Julie Albers, cello Wed 20 Thurs 21 Fri 22 Sat 23 Tuesday, August 19 - 8:15 p.m. Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) 18' Pezzo Capriccioso, Op. 62 (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) 7' Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 (Johannes Brahms) 40'