Western Piedmont Symphony (Hickory):
Masterworks & Chamber Classics Series - 2008-9

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• Saturday September 13 - Hickory
  WPS Chamber Classics: La Catrina Quartet
  Arts & Science Center, Hickory. 8:00 p.m.
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• Saturday October 4 - Lenoir
  Dmitri Berlinsky, violin, & Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, conductor
  Program: “Autumn Colors”: Beethoven: Egmont: Overture; Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D; & Mussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
  J.E. Broyhill Center, Lenoir. 8:00 p.m.
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• Saturday October 25 - Hickory
  WPS Chamber Classics: La Catrina Quartet
  Arts & Science Center, Hickory. 8:00 p.m.
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• Saturday November 8
  Kishna Davis, soprano, & Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, conductor
  Program: Ridgeview Festival Concert: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Bamboula, Op. 75; William Grant Still: Summerland; Nkeiru Okoye: Songs of Harriet Tubman; Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Mop, Mop; & Ulysses Kay: Southern Harmony
  First Baptist Church, Hickory. 8:00 p.m.
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• Monday November 25 - Hickory
  WPS Youth Symphony
  Arts & Science Center, Hickory. 7:00 p.m.
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• Saturday January 24 - Hickory
  WPS Chamber Classics: La Catrina Quartet
  Arts & Science Center, Hickory. 8:00 p.m.
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• Saturday February 7
  Edmund Barton Bullock, piano, & Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, conductor
  Program: Saint-Saëns: Samson and Delilah: “Bacchanale”; Edmund Barton Bullock: Appalachian Concerto; & Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
  First Baptist Church, Hickory. 8:00 p.m.
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• Saturday March 7
  Mike Filip, Rick Cline, & Charles Smith, percussion, & Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, conductor
  Program: “Bang On”: Rossini: La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie): Overture; Kaminsky: Terra terribilis; & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in e minor, Op. 64
  First Baptist Church, Hickory. 8:00 p.m.
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• Saturday March 28 - Hickory
  WPS Chamber Classics: La Catrina Quartet
  Arts & Science Center, Hickory. 8:00 p.m.
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• Saturday April 4
  Frederick Moyer, piano, & Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, conductor
  Program: “Northern Lights”: Witold Lutoslawski: Mala Suite (Little Suite); Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18; & Einojuhani Rautavaara: Symphony No. 7 (Angel of Light)
  First Baptist Church, Hickory. 8:00 p.m.
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• Monday April 6 - Hickory
  WPS Youth Symphony*
  Arts & Science Center, Hickory. 7:00 p.m.
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  *Stephanie Perkins, harp: J.C. Bach: Concerto No. 6 in D (1st mvt); & Kate Warlick, flute: Mozart: Concerto in G, K.313: Adagio

• Saturday May 2
  John Cheek, piano, & Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, conductor
  Program: Side by Side with Youth Symphony* (location t.b.a.)
  P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRC, Hickory. 3:00 p.m.
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  *Marin Fanjoy Labrenz, violin: Barber: Violin Concerto: Allegro (1st mvt)

• 12/2/08: YOUTH SYMPHONY CONCERTO PERFORMERS
  The following candidates were chosen to perform solo movements with the Western Piedmont Youth Symphony:
  Fall 2009 Concert on November 23, 2009
  Kelly Boyd, violin: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Spring (mvt. 1)