Music Director
2007-2008 Season
29 September 2007, 3:30PM
South Side Middle School
67 Hillside Avenue (Hillside and Burtis Avenues)
Rockville Centre, NY
Family Concert - -What is an Orchestra?
Overture to La Gazza Ladra
Gioacchino Rossini
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
Scott Jackson Wiley, narrator
Tickets $15, $12 Guild members and seniors, $10 students. Call 516-616-3610 for tickets
Saturday, 17 November 2007 at 8 PM
South Side Middle School
67 Hillside Avenue (Hillside and Burtis Avenues)
Rockville Centre, NY
Two Sides of Opera
Preludio Symphonico
Giacomo Puccini
Tenor Aria
Giacomo Puccini
Soprano Aria
Giacomo Puccini
Rosencavalier Suite
Richard Strauss
Friday, 30 November 2007 at 8 PM
Saturday, 1 December 2007 at 5 PM
Sunday, 2 December 2007 at 4 PM
South Side High School
140 Shepherd St., Rockville Centre, NY
A Joyful Holiday with Leggz Ltd. Dance
The Nutcracker Ballet
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
We usher in the holiday season with Tchaikovsky's classic ballet The Nutcracker. Our production has no equal anywhere on Long Island! The South Shore Symphony, led by Music Director Scott Jackson Wiley, summons all its forces to accompany a 90 member corps de ballet under the artistic direction of Joan MacNaughton of Leggz Ltd. Dance. In addition to the composer's full score and ballet stars of international prestige, featuring principal dancers who have appeared with the American Ballet Theatre, Kirov Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet "Moving Out", Joffrey Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet and Moiseyev Ballet, this magical extravaganza features talented and gifted young dancers from all over the metropolitan area.
Tickets are $22 for adults, $18 for seniors and students under 18. For reservations call Leggz Ltd. Dance at 516-766-7171. Credit cards are accepted.
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008, 7:30PM
St Agnes Cathedral
29 Quealy Place
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
Mighty Sounds: Chorus, Trumpet, and Organ
Festival Overture
Dmitri Shostakovich (1844-1908)
Concerto for Trumpet (world premier)
Scott A. Zarchy (b. 1984)
Walter Fremer, trumpet
Palm Sunday Antiphon
Michael L. Bower (b. 1962)
Alleluia
Randall Thompson (1899-1944)
Alma Redemptoris (St. Agnes premier)
Matthew Koraus (b. 1987)
What Sweeter Music
John Rutter (b. 1945)
What Cheer
William Walton (1902-1893)
Sing Ye Praises
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Cathedral Singers and Schola Cantorum
Michael L. Bower, conductor
Toccata Festiva, op.36, for Organ and Orchestra
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Michael L. Bower, organ soloist
Tickets are $15 General Admission, $12 for Guild Members and seniors, and $10 for students up to 21 years to age. Call the Guild Hotline at (516) 616-3610 to reserve your tickets.
Sunday, April 6th, 2008, at 3:00PM
South Side Middle School
67 Hillside Ave., Rockville Centre, NY
Happy Birthday Leroy Anderson!
El Salon Mexico
Aaron Copland
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin
Jeffrey Biegel, piano
Selected Works
Leroy Anderson
Concerto for Piano
Leroy Anderson
Jeffrey Biegel, piano
Tickets are $15, general admission, $12 for Guild members and seniors, and $10 for students up to 21 years of age. For information or to reserve tickets, call (516) 616-3610.
Saturday, 17 May 2008, 8:00 PM
South Side High School
140 Shepherd St., Rockville Centre, NY
Classical Romantics
Overture to Der Freischutz
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Violin, op 64 in e minor
Felix Mendelssohn
Susan Hytken, violin
Symphony No. 3 in F major, opus 90
Johannes Brahms
Saturday, July 12, 2008, 7:45 PM Fireworks at 9:20 PM
Mill River Park