MDSO: Labor Day Pops
September 3, 2018, 6:00pm
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 6:00pm | Hickory Point Pavilion
Free and open to the public
Washington Post March
Selections from Carmen Suite
This is the Moment from Jekyll and Hyde
William Tell Overture
Time to Say Goodbye
South Pacific Suite
Blue Skies
Doctor Zhivago Theme
I Love a Piano
West Side Story Medley
Justin John Moniz, guest soloist
MDSO Masterworks I: Pines of Rome and Rhapsodies
September 22, 2018, 7:30pm
PINES OF ROME AND RHAPSODIES
Masterworks I - Tickets: $10, $15, $20
SAT SEP 22, 2018, 7:30pm | Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
MICHAEL DAVIDMAN, piano
Michael Davidman appearance is generously underwritten by The David and Norma Fathauer Symphonic Music Fund, and by special arrangement with Curtis on Tour, the Nina von Maltzahn Global Touring Initiative of the Curtis Institute of Music.
Respighi: Pines of Rome
Millikin Chamber Orchestra Workshop: Brahms
September 26, 2018, 10:00am to 6:00pm
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:00am-6pm | Kirkland Fine Arts Center
A day dedicated to exploring the music of Brahms. Selected high school orchestras rehearse with Millikin string students and Millikin applied faculty, receive expert coaching on repertoire, sightreading, and All-State excerpts. The day culminates in a public concert and scholarship presentations!
Free and open to the public | Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Concert: 5:00pm
Brahms: Variations on Theme of Haydn
MDSO Masterworks II: An American Portrait
October 20, 2018, 7:30pm
Masterworks II
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 7:30pm | Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Bernstein: Candide Overture
Copland: Old American Songs
Boatmen’s Dance, The Dodger, Long Time Ago, Simple Gifts, I Bought Me a Cat, At the River, Ching-a-ring chaw
Ian Greenlaw, Baritone
Ives: Variations on “America”
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Millikin Chamber Orchestra Live with Film
November 3, 2018, 2:00pm to 8:30pm
Tickets: $10
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 2:00pm & 7:30pm | Avon Theatre
Transport yourself to the early days of film with the Millikin Chamber Orchestra providing live accompaniment to the classic 1921 silent film, The Kid. As the first full-length feature film to be both directed and starred by Charlie Chaplin, The Kid introduces Chaplin’s essential role as The Tramp, who finds an orphan that will later become his partner in crime. Will the police capture these minor criminals? Will the orphan find his birth parents? Join us to find out!
Advent Service
December 9, 2018, 10:30am
Millikin Chamber Orchestra
Sun Dec 9, 2018, 10:30am
Free and open to the public
MDSO Masterworks III: Elgar's Enigma Variations and Young Artists
February 2, 2019, 2:00pm
Masterworks III - Tickets: $10, $15, $20
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 2:00pm | Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Young Artists: TBD
Elgar: Enigma Variations [Variations on an Original Theme]
MDSO Masterworks IV: Resurrection Symphony: Mahler's Symphony No. 2
March 2, 2019, 7:30pm
Masterworks IV - Tickets: $10, $15, $20
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 7:30pm | Kirkland Fine Arts Center
With Millikin Union of Choirs
Famed composer-conductor Gustav Mahler believed that “to write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.” Hear the MDSO and the Millikin Union of Choirs recreate this musical process in their performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. Known as the “Resurrection Symphony,” this monumental piece brings together over 300 performers to celebrate the profound beauty of afterlife and redemption.
MDSO: Sleeping Beauty with Alabama Ballet
March 30, 2019, 7:30pm to March 31, 2019, 2:00pm
SLEEPING BEAUTY WITH ALABAMA BALLET
Tickets: $35, $45, $65
SAT MAR 30, 2019, 7:30pm | Kirkland Fine Arts Center
SUN MAR 31, 2019, 2:00pm | Kirkland Fine Arts Center
MDSO Masterworks V: Dvorak's New World Symphony & Amy Catron
April 13, 2019, 7:30pm
Masterworks V - Tickets: $10, $15, $20
Sat Apr 13, 2019, 7:30pm | Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Golijov: Azul, for cello, obbligato group and orchestra
AMY CATRON, Cello
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 [From the new World]