Concert

Join us for our opening gala concert featuring Sibelius’ stirring masterpiece that celebrates freedom, strength and heroism. David Heuser’s electrifying work is taken from the poem, “Music,” dedicated to Dmitry Shostakovich and written by Soviet poet, Anna Akhmatova. We end the evening with Tchaikovsky’s breathtaking and majestic Symphony No. 4!

Celebrate July 4th, a salute to our veterans, anniversaries for the end of WW II and the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and great music from the movies!

Described as “a slender Grecian maiden between two Nordic giants,” (referring to his Symphonies 3 and 5), Beethoven’s ever-popular Symphony No. 4 will anchor this program that also features the brilliant Dances of Galanta by the magnificent Hungarian composer, Zoltán Kodály and the magical Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio by Mozart.

An exciting and fun-filled concert that will have your imagination soaring as we explore how composers create great music based on ideas from Fables, Fantasy and Folklore!

A stellar concert of virtuosity that features some of the most bravura writing of the time from the birthplace of the Baroque period - Italy! This dazzling performance from our Baroque Orchestra is highlighted by Vivaldi’s famous Concerto for Four Violins, Geminiani’s brilliant Concerto Grosso after “La Folia”, a North American premiere of the Andrea Zani’s Cello Concerto in F Minor and selections by other Italian masters such as Corelli, Pergolesi and Scarlatti.

Enjoy the holiday season with sounds from around the globe as we feature music from Eastern and Western Europe, America and Africa! Featured are such favorites as Do You Hear What I Hear, Fantasia on Greensleeves, “The Hallelujah Chorus” from Messiah, The Nutcracker, “Troika” from Prokofiev’s Lt. Kiji, The Carol of the Bells, Sleigh Ride, Haydn’s Toy Symphony and more!

Our season opens with three heralded works from the 19th century. From the stunning brilliance of the Corsaire Overture and the lush Siegfried Idyll, a gift to Wagner’s wife after the birth of their son, to the sunshine of what was termed by many as Brahms’ Pastoral Symphony, written in the picture post-card Austrian city of Pörtschach, this concert will stir your soul. We dedicate this concert to Robert Washburn, a great composer, musician and friend.

Celebrate the summertime and July 4th season with great American pops including John Williams' Liberty Fanfare, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Armed Forces Salute, Copland's Hoedown, American Salute, Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever, great fiddle tunes such as Ungar's Ashokan Farewell, The Devil's Dream, Bonaparte's Retreat and MORE!

This July 4th celebration will honor our veterans, salute the 70th anniversary of D-Day and take you on a tour of Broadway! The Orchestra will present many traditional Independence Day favorites such as America the Beautiful, The American Frontier, and the 1812 Overture in addition to great hits from Broadway musicals including Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Camelot, Cats, The Sound of Music and more.

Featuring two of the most famous and most popular Romantic works, the great Piano Concerto No. 2 of Rachmaninoff and the passionate Symphony No. 8 by Antonin Dvorak. The concert also includes the World Premiere of the Silver Overture by Harold Levin, composed as a gift to Kenneth Andrews and the Orchestra of Northern New York in celebration of the Orchestra’s first 25 years and beginning of the next.