The Creation Haydn brought down the house at the premiere of his most popular work, The Creation. This stunning oratorio with soloists and choirs demonstrates Haydn’s skill at using the orchestra for all manner of character and story. This is a not to be missed season ending event! Leslie Ann Bradley, Soprano: Zach Finkelstein, Tenor Andrew Mahon, Bass Apr 18, 2020
Colorful Arrivals Stravinsky’s Petrouchka is known as the work when the master composer first broke into his own, distinct style. And Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide” is a favorite for listeners of every age group. Mar 21, 2020
Beethoven Innovates Beethoven and Tchaikovsky continue to push the envelope late into their careers. Two examples highlight this program, Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto opens while Beethoven’s 6th Symphony broke ground as the first programmatic symphony written around a simple storyline. Feb 22, 2020
American Inaugurals Early works by great American composers, including Copland and Barber highlight this program that also features last year’s Grammy Award winning Saxophone Concert, “Rush” by Kenneth Fuchs. Jan 25, 2020
Messiah Join the combined choirs of El Diamante and Golden West as they share the quintessential holiday work, Handel’s Messiah. We’ll share the Christmas portions of the nativity story with soloist and chamber orchestra in its original orchestration. Sheila Willey, Soprano Heather Jones, Mezzo-Soprano Chad Kranak, Tenor Ben Brady, Bass Dec 8, 2019
Bold Beginnings Beethoven and Brahms start out their careers with these two landmark works, the charm and power of Beethoven is already evident in his first piano concerto and Brahms’ 20 year labor of love, his first symphony, closes the program. Nov 16, 2019
Raiders of the Lost Ark-Live We’ve had great success with our movie highlight shows, but we’re thrilled to open the season with a complete performance of the film “Raiders of the Lost Ark” with a live score played during the movie by our orchestra. Oct 18, 2019
Rimsky-Korsakov and Bruch at SPAC NYSSSA closes our 2019 summer with one colossal orchestral showpiece and one colossal guest artist. Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster, David Kim, joins the orchestra for Bruch’s G minor violin concerto before the orchestra celebrates the end of summer with Rimsky-Korsakov’s stunning orchestra showpiece, “Scheherezade.” Aug 17, 2019
NYSSSA Orchestra 2019 debuts!
Picture It! Our orchestra season in Adrian closes with two works that we’re inspired by visual works of art. Bernstein’s 2nd Symphony was inspired both by Auden’s long form poem “The Age of Anxiety,” which wrestles with the struggles of loneliness in the modern age. Bernstein felt the work was also inspired by Hopper’s “Nighthawks” painting, depicting three lonely souls in an otherwise deserted New York City bar, late in the evening. Scored for piano and orchestra, this work has everything, wandering and lost opening in the clarinets, a jazzy, relentless middle …