Season 1999-2000
Full Orchestra and Opera performances
October, 1999
(Full Orchestra)
BEETHOVEN Overture to Prometheus
DEBUSSY Prélude à “l’aprés-midi d’un faune”
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9
Johann STRAUSS, Jr. Perpetual Motion
November, 1999
(Full Orchestra with Festival Choirs)
WOLF-FERRARI Overture to “The Secret of Suzanne”
BARTÓK Dance Suite
FAURÉ Requiem
December, 1999
(Candlelight Concert with Choirs)
G. GABRIELI/O.Smith Canzona per Sonare No. 2
DEBUSSY The Children’s Corner (excerpts)
VIVALDI “Laudamus Te” from “Gloria”
J. S. BACH Magnificat
December, 1999
Orchestration Class (MUS 323) Projects: Reading and Recording
February, 2000 WGRE-FM “Live” Radio Broadcast
James BECKEL “The American Dream”
COPLAND Lincoln Portrait
(100th anniversary of Copland’s birth, 1900)
James Lincoln, narrator
March, 2000 DePauw Opera (4 Performances, Double Cast)
PURCELL Dido and Aeneas
V. GIANNINI The Beauty and the Beast
March, 2000 Student Conductors: Rehearsing and Video Taping
BEETHOVEN Symphonies No. 2 and 4
April, 2000 DePauw Concerto Competition Winners’ Concert
LISZT Totentanz
*BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 3
FLOYD “The Trees on the Mountains”
PUCCINI “Mi Chiamano Mimi” from “La Bohème”
*VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oboe Concerto
(* selected movements)
April, 2000
DePauw’s “Leadership for a New Century” Campaign Finale
GALA CELEBRATION in the RCA DOME with alums Nancy Ford, David Cryer, Shannon Forsell and the DePauw Choirs, and the DePauw Gospel Choir
ORCENITH SMITH “Gala Intro”
JAMES BECKEL “The American Dream”
O. SMITH “Nancy Ford Charles Intro”
O. SMITH “David Cryer Intro”
MITCH LEIGH “The Impossible Dream”
SONDHEIM “Everybody Says Don’t”
SONDHEIM “Children Will Listen”
RODGERS/HART “Where or When”
O. SMITH “Letters Home”
(music underscore for letters read from the DePauw Archives)
BERNSTEIN “Make Our Garden Grow”
NOLAN WILLIAMS “Just for Today”
O. SMITH Ever Worthy
(Premiere)
VIVIEN BARD The Toast to DePauw
May, 2000 Choral/Orchestral Concert
HAYDN “Nelson” Messe
For more information, contact:
Orcenith Smith, Conductor
(765) 658-4388
osmith@depauw.edu