Concert Schedule

2007-2008 Season

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September 15, 2007 (7:30 PM) - Laxson Auditorium, Chico
September 16, 2007 (2:00 PM) - Cascade Theatre, Redding

Prokofiev - Classical Symphony, op. 25
Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 1, op. 15, D Minor

Brian Ganz, Piano

NORTH STATE SYMPHONY begins its season with pianist Brian Ganz, a “fabulous musician who lives music with generous urgency and brings his public into a state of intense joy.” Ganz will join the NSS and Music Director Kyle Wiley Pickett in Brahms’ First Piano Concerto, a monument work of musical grandeur and profundity. The concert opens with a 20th Century salute to Mozart’s era, the Classical Symphony of Prokofiev, and an homage to a new-born son, Richard Wagner’s surprisingly intimate Siegfried Idyll.

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Resurrection - Sublime Voices

November 17, 2007 (7:30 PM) - Cascade Theatre, Redding
November 18, 2007 (2:00 PM) - Laxson Auditorium, Chico

Mahler - Symphony No. 2, C Minor - Resurrection

Elizabeth Madsen Bradford, Mezzo Soprano
Joyce Parry Moore, Soprano
University Choir

Music expressing the depths of human sorrow and hope is found in Gustav Mahler’s immense and beautiful Second Symphony, as the North State Symphony joins with chorus and soloists.

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Holiday Concerts!

November 30 (7:30 PM) - Anderson High School, Anderson
December 1 (7:30 PM) - State Theatre, Red Bluff
December 2 (2:00 PM) - All Saints Episcopal Church, Redding
December 2 (7:30 PM) - Orland Evangelical Free Church, Orland

Join Kyle Wylie PIckett and soloist Candace LiVolsi, Harp

Start the Christmas season with Baroque beauty, Classical grace, and traditional favorites.

Corelli - Christmas Concerto
Dan Pinkston - Woman, Why Are You Crying?
Bach – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

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Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves
Handel - Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, Op. 4, No. 6

Candace LiVolsi, Harp

Sing-a-long Christmas songs

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Dance Mix

February 15, 2008 (7:30 PM) - State Theatre, Oroville
February 16, 2008 (7:30 PM) - Laxson Auditorium, Chico
February 17, 2008 (2:00 PM) - Cascade Theatre, Redding

Dvorak - Slavonic Dances
Piazzolla - Tangazo
Bartok - Hungarian Sketches
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Suite

Celebrate the age-old linkage between two art forms, music and dance. North State Symphony plays music which will make you tap your toes. From ballet to tango, it’s all about the beat -- and the melody -- and the lift your spirits will receive from this high-stepping line-up of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Dvorak and Bartok’s colorful folk dances and Argentina’s Tango Master, Astor Piazzolla.

Final Frontier

April 19, 2008 (7:30 PM) - Cascade Theatre, Redding
April 20, 2008 (2:00 PM) - Laxson Auditorium, Chico
April 20, 2008 (7:30 PM) - State Theater, Red Bluff

Debussy - Nocturnes

Arutunian - Trumpet Concerto, Mvt. 1

Young Artist Winner
Ayako Nakamura, Trumpet

Kabalevsky - Violin Concerto, Mvt. 1

Young Artist Winner
Chelsea Morden, Violin

Holst - The Planets

Outer space -- and the furthest reaches of the human imagination. The North State Symphony and Music Director Kyle Wiley Pickett proudly present The Planets, a musical trip through the zodiac by Gustav Holst. The symphony’s season finale begins with Debussy’s lovely Nocturnes, then opens a window to the future by featuring two brilliant student soloists, Chelsea Morden and Ayako Nakamura, winners of the 2007 Young Artists Auditions.