2007-2008
Winter Season

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• Winter Season 1, Once Upon a Time..., Sept. 22, 2007, 8:00pm  (Keith Albee Performing Arts Center)
  *Reception at Rocco's 21 Club, 940 4th Avenue, 6:30pm

From classic children's stories to Russian folk tales these literary gems spring from the page with vivid symphonic sound!
• Bernstein: Candide Overture
• Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
• Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
• Stravinsky: Firebird Suite

• Children's Concert: Peter and the Wolf, Sept. 23, 2007 (Keith Albee Performing Arts Center, 3pm)
  Activity hour prior to concert begins at 2pm in the lobby of the Keith.

featuring Das Puppenspiel, www.puppets.org
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

• Winter Season 2, Sci-Fi: The Final Frontier, Oct. 20, 2007, 8:00pm  (Keith Albee Performing Arts Center)
  *Reception at Club Luna in the Galleria, 945 4th Avenue, Suite 117, 6:30pm

Fantasy becomes reality with the music that made these science-fiction works into blockbusters. Featuring the HSO's own Fantastic Four!
• R. Strauss: Fanfare, Also sprach Zarathustra
• Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Winds, K. 297b
• Lora Snow, Wendell Dobbs, Steve Lawson and Kay Lawson
• J. Strauss: Tritsch Trasch Polka
• Holst: Mars and Jupiter, The Planets
• J. Williams: Cantina Band
• Courage: Star Trek Theme
• J. Williams: E.T. Adventures on Earth

• Holiday POPS, A Storybook Christmas, Dec. 15, 2007, 8:00pm (Joan C Edwards, MU Campus)
• Holiday POPS, A Storybook Christmas, Dec. 16, 2007, 3:00pm (Joan C Edwards, MU Campus)
  Please join us for a complimentary dessert reception in the lobby following the concerts.

Feel the warmth of the season with the HSO as we celebrate these classic holiday stories.
• Polar Express
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• We're Walking in the Air, The Snowman
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
• Traditional Favorites

• Winter Season 3, Will and Romance, Feb. 9, 2008, 8:00pm (Keith Albee Performing Arts Center)
  *Reception at Community Trust Bank, Pullman Square, 6:30pm

Join the HSO as it teams up with the Marshall University Theater Department for a hot night of music and drama from the hand of Shakespeare, the bard himself.
• Purcell: If Music be the Food of Love, Sing On
• Walton: Hamlet Soliloquy
• Prokofiev: Suite, Romeo and Juliet
• Nicolai: Merry Wives of Windsor
• Bernstein: West Side Story Excerpts
• Mendelssohn: Scherzo and Wedding March
• Highlights from A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Winter Season 4, Men, Myths and Legends, March 8, 2008, 8:00pm (Keith Albee Performing Arts Center)
  *Reception at La Fontaine's Tobacco & Wine Shop, 418 Tenth Street, 6:30pm

A musical tribute to these larger than life figures from the pages of history and literature. Featuring living legends from the HSO!
• Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
• Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in F
• David Bryant
• Michal: Violin Concerto: Elizabeth Reed Smith
• Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
• Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
• Copland: John Henry
Respighi: Pines of Rome

*Reservations required for pre-concert receptions. Please call the HSO office by the Thursday before the concert to make your reservations. The cost is $15 per person which includes drinks and hors d'oeuvres.

Click here to view the poster for the winter season (in .pdf format).

All performances at the Keith Albee Performing Arts Center, located at 924 4th Ave., except for the Dec. 16 & 17 holiday concerts, which will be performed at Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center, Marshall University Campus, 5th Ave. between Elm St. and & 18th St.