Beach Music Celebration
October 4, 2009
Let the Good Times roll! Come relive classic hits by some of the most popular performers in the Beach Music world -- The Tams, Craig Woolard and Billy Scott -- singing tunes like I've Been Hurt, What Am I Gonna Do without You and My Kind of Girl with full symphonic accompaniment!

Nationalistic Fervor
November 8, 2009
During the upheaval of the "Age of Revolution", national cultural identities also began to emerge from the landscape. Experience some of symphonic music's finest examples of this musical independence in Sir William Walton's regal Crown Imperial Coronation March, the Spanish folk music-based Three-cornered Hat: Suite No. 1 by Manuel de Falla, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's beloved Symphony No. 8, and the ethereal Violin Concerto No. 1 by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (featuring internationally acclaimed violinist Judith Ingolfsson).

Classical Masters
January 31, 2010
A program of famous masterpieces by the three great composers from the Age of Enlightenment who defined the mature Classical style: the popular Cello Concerto in C of Franz Joseph Haydn (featuring outstanding young Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan), the enchanting Magic Flute Overture of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the unsurpassed energy and drama of Ludwig van Beethoven's iconic Symphony No. 5.

Late Romantics
March 14, 2010
The Romantic Period, initially inspired by the dramatic power of Beethoven's music, gradually developed its own even greater depth of emotion and more brilliant orchestral palette. Richard Wagner's majestic Die Meistersinger Overture, Giuseppe Verdi's somber Stabat Mater and Anton Bruckner's joyous Psalm 150 (both featuring the Carolina Master Chorale), plus the epic Symphony No. 5 of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky combine to make this program an exciting showcase of the mature Romantic spirit.