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2007-2008 Concert Season Schedule
East Campus Quad

Sunday, August 31, 2008
6 PM, East Campus Main Quad

Labor Day Weekend Outdoor Pops Concert

Harry Davidson, music director

Bring a picnic and welcome in the new academic year with the DSO on Duke's East Campus! Featuring show tunes, patriotic works, and music from your favorite movies.

(Rain location: Baldwin Auditorium)

Admission is free and open to the public.

Hsiao-mei Ku
Hsiao-mei Ku
Jonathan Bagg
Jonathan Bagg

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
8 PM, Baldwin Auditorium

Czech This Out

Harry Davidson, music director
Hsiao-mei Ku, violin
Jonathan Bagg, viola

VORÍSEK Symphony in D Major
STAMITZ Sinfonia Concertante in D Major
DVORÁK Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88

Admission is free and open to the public.

Directions to Baldwin Auditorium [links to Google Maps]

CVNC Logo "The students played their hearts out and Maestro Davidson led with courage and conviction, dosing tempos and crescendos with mastery."
Read the full review at the Classical Voice of North Carolina.

Duke Chapel

Saturday, October 25, 2008
8 PM, Duke Chapel

Parents' and Family Weekend Concert

Featuring the Duke University Chorale, Duke Symphony Orchestra, and Duke Wind Symphony

General Admission $5.00; students/senior citizens free with ticket or I.D.

Directions to Duke Chapel [links to Google Maps]

Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
8 PM, Baldwin Auditorium

A Salute to Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

on the 50th anniversary of his death

Harry Davidson, music director
Brian Johnson, baritone

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in E minor
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Songs of Travel
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5 in D Major

Admission is free and open to the public.

Directions to Baldwin Auditorium [links to Google Maps]

CVNC Logo "The accompaniments provided by the orchestra [in the Songs of Travel] were as secure as Johnson's singing, and as a result the cycle took on a sense of greatness that made this reading truly special."
Read the full review at the Classical Voice of North Carolina.

Anthony Kelley
Anthony Kelley Richard Zhu
Richard Zhu

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
8 PM, Baldwin Auditorium

Salute to 'Papa'

Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, 1732-1809

Harry Davidson, music director
Anthony Kelley, piano soloist
Richard Zhu, 2008-2009 Student Concerto Competition winner

HAYDN Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor
KELLEY Africamerica: Sound Images for Piano and Orchestra (2001)
HAYDN Symphony No. 104 in D Major, "London"

KORNGOLD Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Admission is free and open to the public.

Directions to Baldwin Auditorium [links to Google Maps]

CVNC Logo "Co-concertmaster Richard Zhu, winner of the 2008-09 student concerto competition, turned in an assured and confident performance with a full, rich tone and impeccable intonation. His playing would have been impressive for a conservatory major, and even more so for a Biology major with a minor in Music who will start medical school in Fall 2009."
Read the full review at the Classical Voice of North Carolina.

Beaufort, South Carolina

March 27-29, 2009

Beaufort, South Carolina

The Duke Symphony travels to Beaufort, South Carolina for a concert to benefit Beaufort Memorial Hospital's Keyserling Cancer Center.

Jung Oh
Jung Oh Teresa Buchholz
Teresa Buchholz

Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 8 PM
Baldwin Auditorium

Happy Birthday, Felix Mendelssohn! (1809-1847)

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth

Harry Davidson, music director

MENDELSSOHN Overture and Incidental Music to William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Op. 21 and 61)

Presented with an abridged version of the play prepared under the supervision of R. Larry Todd, Daryl W. Palmer, Jay O'Berski

Featuring
Jung Oh, soprano (first fairy)
Teresa Buchholz, soprano (second fairy)
Durham Children's Choir, Scott Hill, Director (fairy chorus)

With Duke's "Antic Shakespeare Company", Jay O'Berski, Director

Admission is free and open to the public.

Directions to Baldwin Auditorium [links to Google Maps]

CVNC Logo "It was, in a word, terrific. If you weren't there, you ought to have been!"
Read the full review at the Classical Voice of North Carolina.
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