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October
MW2 Beethoven's Eroica
October 16, 2010
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville Civic Center, 8:00pm
Walton Crown Imperial March
Neruda Trumpet Concerto
Mark Clodfelter, trumpetHovhaness Prayer of St. Gregory
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
In October, we contrast two ideas imperial. We begin with William Walton’s rousing dedication to England’s George VI at his coronation in 1937 and finish with the watershed symphony by Beethoven that ushered in music’s Romantic age. His ‘Eroica’ Symphony No. 3 of 1803 was initially dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, but Napoleon’s name was soon erased from the title page when Beethoven learned that the revolutionary had become a despot. Read more....
MW3 A Midsummer's Night Dream with NC Stage Company
November 20, 2010
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville Civic Center, 8:00pm
Mendelssohn Midsummer Night’s Dream Suite
NC Stage CompanyFinzi For St. Cecilia
Asheville Symphony ChorusBorodin Polovtsian Dances
Asheville Symphony Chorus
We have invited the talented actors of the North Carolina Stage Company to join us in November to collaborate in a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s take on the Shakespeare classic: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Of course the original Shakespeare and the music it inspired stand on their own, but ...
Holiday Pops
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville Civic Center, 8:00pm
In December we continue a beautiful family tradition of performing your favorite music from the Holidays. With the glowing voices of the Asheville Symphony Chorus under Dewitt Tipton and the Asheville Symphony Children's Chorus under Timothy Wilds, our Holiday Concert has become a favorite of Asheville audiences over the years. We hope you will make it one of your treasured traditions in December, too.
