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Leif Bjaland
Music Director & Conductor

 
2008-09 Season

2009-2010 Season

Leif Bjaland

Dear Fellow Music Lovers,
Music can be a source of inspiration and entertainment, introspection and sorrow.  With the Waterbury Symphony’s 2009-10 Season, it is cause for joy and celebration!

Each of the composers we will be performing this season has strived to express the whole range of human emotion, with stirring results.

Rhapsody, a virtuostic, ‘in the moment’ kind of music opens our season with an evocation of exotic places and an air of festivity.  Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is a journey from darkness to light, a symphonic hero quest culminating with a call for universal brotherhood.  Antonio Vivaldi celebrates life and nature in his masterpiece The Four Seasons, a vivid depiction of earth’s annual cycle featuring the brilliant young violinist, Dan Zhu.  And finally, the joy of friendship is at the heart of Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, a series of intimate musical portraits of friends and loved ones.

But of music’s many powers, perhaps the greatest is its ability to bring us together.  We enter a concert as a collection of individuals and leave changed, the many becoming one.  Music unites and transforms us in a way that few experiences in life can.

Come share in the joy and celebration!

Leif Bjaland
Music Director and Conductor

 

 

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Summer Pops

Woodbury Hollow - 6 pm Gates open at 5 pm

Join us for a summer evening filled with music in Woodbury Hollow Park, Woodbury.

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September 19

 

Rhapsody

NVCC - 8 pm

Alven, Holst, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, Enescu

November 22

 

 

Ode to Joy

NVCC - 3 pm

Beethoven -

Symphony No. 1 in C Major,

Symphony No. 9, op. 125, in D minor

Featuring Guest Artists:
Amanda Hall, soprano
Gala El Hadidi, mezzo-soprano
Michael Paul Krubitzer, tenor
Tyler Simpson, baritone

 

 

 

January 24

 

 

The Four Seasons

NVCC - 3 pm

 

Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" with guest violinist Dan Zhu .

 

March 20

A Community Celebration of Dance!

Palace Theater - 8 pm
Featuring music that moves you to dance, with local professional dance companies.

May 8

Enigmatic
NVCC - 8 pm

Tchaikovsky, Salinas and Elgar's "Enigma"

 
 
 

 

 
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