Concert Schedule

2006-2007 Season

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September 30, 2006 - Cascade Theatre, Redding, 7:30 pm
October 1, 2006 - Laxson Auditorium, Chico, 2:00 pm

Verdi - Overture to La Forza del Destino
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 27, K. 595, B-flat Major - Roy Bogas, Piano
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5, Op. 47, D Minor

The best of the music of three centuries, this program opens the North State Symphony’s 101st season. Verdi’s masterful Overture to La Forza del Destino, and the profound elegance of Mozart’s final Piano Concerto, lead to a shattering experience with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. Pianist Roy Bogas brings decades of insight, thought and acclaim to his performance of Mozart’s masterpiece.

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November 18, 2006 - Laxson Auditorium, Chico, 7:30 pm
November 19, 2006 - Cascade Theatre, Redding, 2:00 pm
November 19, 2006 - State Theater, Red Bluff, 7:30 pm

Honegger - Pacific 231
Tower - Made in America
Young Artist Audition Winners
Saint Saens - Violin Concerto #3, lst movement - Garrett Openshaw, violin
Griffes - Poem - Heidi Lohse, flute
Copland - Billy the Kid

Thanksgiving is the time to appreciate and reflect upon our past. This concert will make you think you’ve thrown open a train window and found yourself in the 19th century West, with Aaron Copland’s Billy the Kid. The sound of a steam train is captured in amazing detail by Arthur Honegger’s Pacific 231. Award-winning student soloists Heidi Lohse and Garrett Openshaw play works by American Charles Griffes and Frenchman Camille St-Saens.

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February 17 , 2007 - Cascade Theatre, Redding, 7:30 pm
February 18 , 2007 - Laxson Auditorium, Chico, 2:00 pm

Strauss - Don Juan, Op. 20
Verdi - Preludes to Act I and III of La Traviata
Korngold – Violin Concerto - David McCarroll, violin
Bernstein - West Side Story Symphonic Dances

Music of the heart and the senses for Valentine’s week! Leonard Bernstein’s Dances from the immortal American classic West Side Story are only the most contemporary of these tributes to those who love, and are burned by the love that they feel. Also included are the Preludes from Verdi’s La Traviata, the Strauss tone poem Don Juan, and a lush violin concerto by Vienna’s (and Hollywood’s) Erich Korngold. Soloist David McCarroll is a young Northern Californian who’s beginning a major career.
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May 12, 2007 - Laxson Auditorium, Chico, 7:30 pm
May 13, 2007 - Cascade Theatre, Redding, 2:00 pm

Brahms - Nänie, Op. 82
Brahms – Song of Destiny (Schicksalslied) Op. 54
Beethoven - Symphony No. 3, Op. 55, E-flat Major "Eroica"

Maestro Pickett leads the orchestra and choruses from Redding and Chico in two favorites by Johannes Brahms, the Song of Destiny and Naenie. The Symphony season concludes with the dramatic power of Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the Eroica. You will feel in your heart how music speaks, across the divide of centuries and continents, to all who are open to hear. More info...