2007-08 Season


THE CLASSICAL-POPS CONTINUUM
Sunday, Nov 4, 3:00 pm
We explore the boundaries of classical and pop music, and the places they overlap. You may be surprised at some of the connections.
  • Darius Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit (The Bull on the Roof; the name comes from a saucy nightclub in Paris)
  • Max Steiner: Tara, from Gone With the Wind
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Adagio, from Symphony No.2
  • Richard Wagner: Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from The Ring of the Nibelung
  • John Williams: Star Wars Suite
Warren Woods Community Theatre
13400 12 Mile Road (just west of Schoenherr)


A GLADSOME CHRISTMAS
Sunday, December 2, 3:00 pm
with the Detroit Lutheran Singers (Eric Freudigman, director)
  • The Majestic counterpoint of J.S. Bach's Magnificat plus everyone's favorite carols and Christmas music
Macomb Center for Performing Arts
44575 Garfield (at Hall Road)


ITALIAN-AMERICAN VALENTINE
Sunday, February 10, 3:00 pm
Frances Brockington, soprano, singing world-famous arias.
Half of this concert is Italian music, and other half American - but all of it is glorious melody!
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny)
  • Luigi Dallapiccola: Piccola musica notturna (Little Night Music)
  • Luciano Berio: Ritirata notturna di Madrid (Nocturnal Retreat from Madrid)
  • Giacomo Puccini: Signore, ascolta (Lord, Hear Me), from Turandot
  • Gioacchino Rossini: Una voce poco fa (A Secret Little Voice Inside Me), from The Barber of Seville
  • Edward Macdowell: Indian Suite (Orchestral Suite No.2)
  • Carlisle Floyd: The Trees on the Mountains, from Susannah
  • Gian Carlo Menotti: Telephone Aria, from The Telephone
Warren Woods Community Theatre
13400 12 Mile Road (just west of Schoenherr)


CELEBRATING ROBERT WARD
Sunday, March 16, 3:00 pm
The Pulitzer Prize winning composer, at the age of 90+, will be with us to hear and comment on some of his stirring and uplifting music.
  • Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz (The Free-Shooter)
  • Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.94 ("Surprise")
  • Robert Ward: Prairie Overture
Warren Woods Community Theatre
13400 12 Mile Road (just west of Schoenherr)


A FIERY FINALE
Sunday, April 13, 3:00 pm
Erik Asgeirsson, brilliant young cellist, who as a high school student, soloed in our Youth Concerts not too many years ago. This will be his second appearance on a Warren Symphony subscription concert.
  • Manuel de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat (El sombrero de tres picos) - the complete ballet, in all its exhilarating rhythms and colors
  • Antonin Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B minor - one of the Czech composer's last works, composed here in America,
Warren Woods Tower High School
Bunert at Martin Road