Concert Details
The Rio Hondo Symphony performs four ADMISSION-FREE classical music concerts each season at the Vic Lopez Auditorium at Whittier High School, Whittier Ave. in Whittier California. The concerts start at 3 PM, have one intermission, and are completed before 5 PM.
September 30, 2012
Co-sponsored by Claudia and Bob Orpin
Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copland
Lincoln PortraitAllan Hunt, Director and Actor, Narrator
Duke Ellington
New World A-Comin'Bill Cunliffe
"To Ruth"Imaginacion Trio Bill Cunliffe, Ryan McGillicuddy, Jake Reed
Leonard Bernstein & Bill Cunliffe
Westside Story MedleyGeorge Gershwin & Bill Cunliffe
"I Got Rhythm"
Jazz it up with Grammy award-winner Bill Cunliffe in music that celebrates
truly American sentiment from Copland's stirring Lincoln Portrait to Gershwin's
upbeat "I Got Rhythm."
October 28, 2012
Sergei Prokofiev
Peter and the WolfNouveau Chamber Ballet
Elizabeth Lauritsen, Narrator
Aaron Copland
Appalachian SpringNouveau Chamber Ballet
Benjamin Britten
Soirees Musicales(Based on Gioacchino Rossini's Suite No. 1)
The beautiful lines of Music, Story and Dance are interwoven together
in this Program featuring the Nouveau Chamber Ballet with
Elizabeth Lauritsen, narrator.
February 10, 2013
Co-sponsored by Rio Hondo Symphony Guild
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Marriage of Figaro OvertureJohann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring from Cantata No. 147
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4George Frideric Handel
Hornpipe from The Water MusicRichard Wagner
Siegfried IdyllJohannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme of Haydn
From the grand Baroque style of JS Bach to the monumental music dramas
of Wagner, German composers dominated Western art music. Composers and
critics alike have praised Beethoven's least known 4th Symphony.
May 5, 2013
Co-Sponsored by Hennings-Fischer Foundation
Antonin Dvorak
Carnival Overture
Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4PLUS
Young Artists Competition Winner
John Sywulka
Alexander Artunian
Trumpet Concerto in A-flat major
Tchaikovsky's brilliant yet personal 4th Symphony caps off a spectacular season.
Although it evokes that inexorable force, Fate, and a sense of melancholy, the finale brings the symphony
and the season to a triumphant conclusion.