FOLKTALES AND FOLKTUNES

A concert for all audiences. Be transported to Eastern Cultures with Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre and Brahms' Hungarian Dances. Leading to the great orchestral masterwork: Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
With narrator, Kathleen Dennehy-Taylor.

Planned repertoire:

• Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances 5 and 6
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre, Op. 40
• John Williams: Harry Potter Suite (arr. Jerry Brubaker)
• Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

Kathleen Dennehy-Taylor

Kathleen Dennehy-Taylor grew up in North Hertfordshire, England. She has performed commercial voiceover and voice work for on-hold and auto-attendant telephone messages, marketing and promotional spots, and legal tutorials. Kathleen is a parishioner of Holy Trinity Catholic church in Dallas where she is a lector and a member of the Schola Cantori. She is a supporter of the arts and is delighted for the opportunity to perform with the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving.

HOLIDAY CLASSICS WITH THE ARTS DISTRICT CHORALE

Celebrate the holidays with NPOI and our friends from the Arts District Chorale with holiday classics old and new.
Holiday classics with the Arts District Chorale - Blaire King, conductor.

SYMPHONIC MASTERWORKS

Our own Sheri Oestreich leads the way in a glorious evening culminating in Beethoven's indelible Symphony No. 5.
Masterworks for the Orchestra with principal flute, Sheri Oestreich.

Planned repertoire:

• Carl Nielsen: Helios Overture, Op. 17
• Jacques Ibert: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

FROM COMMON MEN

Titans of their countries, Aaron Copeland and Rimsky Korsakov bookend Rachmaninov's indelible Concerto No. 2.
Masterworks for the piano with pianist, Thiago Nascimento.

Planned repertoire:

• Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff: Russian Easter Overture
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

PIÈCES DES RÉSISTANCE

Close out the NPOI season playing some of the greatest in music: Beethoven, Mozart, Weber, Wagner, and more!
Season finale with students of Irving ISD orchestras.

Planned repertoire:

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K. 621
• Carl Maria von Weber: Jubel Overture, Op. 59
• Severiano Briseño: El Sinaloense
• Richard Wagner: Lohengrin Prelude (Act 3)
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Wellington's Victory