Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (Johannes Brahms) – Upcoming Concerts

Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Frederick Delius — "The Walk to the Paradise Garden" from A Village Romeo and Juliet
Claude Debussy — Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune ("Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun")
Jean Sibelius — Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue (piano four-hands version)
Jessie Montgomery — Strum
Franz Schubert — Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 "Unfinished"
Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Benjamin Britten — Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a

Program includes works by Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Jean Sibelius, Modest Mussorgsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten, and Ottorino Respighi.

Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Jean Sibelius — Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Robert Schumann — Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17

Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Robert Schumann — Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17

Program includes works by John Williams, Nancy Ives, Pierre Leemans, John Philip Sousa, Michael Giacchino, Farhad Poupel, Johannes Brahms, Leroy Anderson, and James M. "Jim" Stephenson.

Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Georges Bizet — Carmen Suite No. 2

Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Felix Mendelssohn — Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (Blake Pouliot, violin)
Alexander von Zemlinsky — Die Seejungfrau ("The Mermaid")

Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Felix Mendelssohn — Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (Blake Pouliot, violin)
Alexander von Zemlinsky — Die Seejungfrau ("The Mermaid")

Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Felix Mendelssohn — Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (Blake Pouliot, violin)
Alexander von Zemlinsky — Die Seejungfrau ("The Mermaid")

Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Mary D. Watkins — Five Movements in Color ("II. Soul of Remembrance")
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Scheherazade, Op. 35

Felix Mendelssohn — String Symphony No. 9 in C major, MWV N 9 "Swiss"
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Camille Saint-Saëns — Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 "Organ Symphony"

Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Alexander Borodin — In the Steppes of Central Asia
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29

Sergei Prokofiev — Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 "Classical"
Melia Watras — A brazen butterfly alights (Melia Watras, viola; Valerie Muzzolini, harp)
Giovanni Bottesini — Gran duo concertante for violin and double bass (Rachel Lee Priday, violin; Jordan Anderson, double bass)
Giuseppe Battista Sammartini — Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 5, No. 6 ("Pastorale")
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 (Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello)
Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (Daren Weissfisch, conductor)

Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Lowell Liebermann — Flute Concerto, Op. 39
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Ferruccio Busoni – Eine Lustspielouvertüre ("Comedy Overture"), Op. 38, BV 245
Richard Strauss – Serenade in E-flat major, Op. 7
Johannes Brahms – Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Roupen Shakarian – Whimsy
Camille Saint-Saëns – Suite algérienne, Op. 60

A spectacular music and visual presentation by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and Washington's National Park Fund, including stunning visuals by Adrian Wyard from all three of Washington's national parks.

Music by John Williams, Aaron Copland, Richard Rodgers, Richard Wagner, Antonio Vivaldi, and others; with visuals of National Parks by Adrian Wyard.

Brahms – Academic Festival Overture
Debussy – Ballet from The Petite Suite
Dvořák – Slavonic Dance No. 8
Puccini – Crisantemi
Elgar – Imperial March
Selections from South Pacific, Porgy and Bess, Fiddler on the Roof, and West Side Story