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About the orchestra The story of Special concerts |
Special concertsMay 1995: A musical history commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, with a salute to veterans, a memoir by Humbert Rees and a show featuring popular and patriotic tunes of the era with singers and dancers. May 1996: Young People's Concerts, featuring Tubby the Tuba. February 1999: Hits of the 20th Century, featuring popular tunes from every decade and special guests, The Glenwood Hot Strings Band and the Rocky Tops Barbershop Quartet. February 2000: 100 Years of Broadway, with guest conductor David Dyer and 28 guest vocalists February 2002: Children's Concerts, featuring Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals and Russell Peck's Playing With Style, with narrator Richard Lyons February 2004: the first Symphony Swing, a dinner dance held at the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, featuring guest conductors Kirk Jones and Kelly Thompson and a variety of flashy vocalists, including the Rocky Tops, the Sophisticated Ladies, the Mood Elevators, and Julie Paxton, Brad Vierheller, John Goss, Jeanie Walla and Debbie Dawson December 2004: Holiday Concerts with the Kokopelli Bells Choir of Grand Junction February 2005: Symphony Swing, featuring the Sophisticated Ladies, the Rocky Tops, Mosaic and vocalists Lorraine Curry, Debbie Dawson, John Goss and Kelly Thompson. December 2005 and 2006: Dancing Into Christmas, featuring excerpts from The Nutcracker Suite with the Danse Arts Theatre Company. May 2006: Peter and the Wolf, narrated by Steve Cole. October 2006: John Denver Tribute Concert, with friends of the late John Denver, hosted by the MUSE Foundation. February 2007: Best of Aspen Community Theatre, with guest conductor David Dyer, celebrating 30 years of musical productions and a reunion of original cast members from 1977 to 2006. May 2007: Excerpts from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, with a choir of 80 adults and children. October 2007: Comedy Tonight, a program featuring humorous music from W.A. Mozart's Musical Joke to PDQ Bach and the Concertino for Cellular Phones and Orchestra by David Baker. December 2007: Amahl and the Night Visitors, starring Corbin Grainger, Maureen Jackson, Paul Dankers, Scott MacCracken, Lee Sullivan. Directed by John Goss. © 2008 Symphony in the Valley www.sitv.org Hosted by Thompson Computer Services, Rifle, Colorado |
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