Orchestra’s Greatest Hits
Audience Choice Concert
Thank you for helping us program the opening Masterworks concert of the 2025/26 Season.
THE RESULTS ARE IN!
OVERTURE
Rossini William Tell Overture
CONCERTO
Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
SYMPHONY
Dvořák Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS!
Caron Farmer - Coffee with Music Director Scott Speck
Lynne Greening - Pair of tickets for the 24/25 Season Finale May 30, 2025
Stephanie DeLeeuw - Pair of tickets for the Audience Choice Concert Nov 14, 2025
Preview the Music You Voted For!
OVERTURE
Rossini: William Tell Overture
This overture to the opera William Tell - the last of Rossini's 39 operas - is a major part of the concert and recording repertoire. It's famous finale, "March of The Swiss Soldiers," is particularly familiar from its use in the radio and television shows of "The Lone Ranger." Several portions of the overture were also used prominently in the films "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Eagle Shooting Heroes."
CONCERTO
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
There are four piano concertos in Rachmaninoff’s body of work. However, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini might be regarded as his unofficial fifth piano concerto. The work is composed of 24 variations of a hauntingly beautiful melody. Its most-famous moment, Variation No. 18, creates pure magic and has been used throughout popular culture including the romantic fantasy film, Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.
SYMPHONY
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Dvořák wrote this symphony while he lived in the US between 1892 and 1895, teaching composition at a new music school in New York. Dvořák was impressed with American folk music and started to incorporate American sounds into his music (there are even some parts in this symphony which sound like they could be a cowboy strolling through the wild west!)
