NOTE: ALL REHEARSALS AND CONCERTS ARE AT FALLS CHURCH EPISCOPAL. PLEASE PLAN TO BRING STANDS.


Concert 4: Saturday, February 8. 2025, 7:30 pm
Mozart Returns, Haydn Appears, with Betty Bley, clarinet

Rehearsals (Saturdays at 10 am unless otherwise specified):
January: 11, 18, 25
February: WEDNESDAY 5th, 7:30pm
Dress rehearsal: FRIDAY, February 7, 7:30 pm
Preconcert call: SATURDAY, February 8, 6:00 pm

Program

Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music: "Mauerische Trauermusik", K. 477
Instrumentation: 0-2-1+basset horn-0+contrabassoon, 2-0-0-0, no percussion or timpani, strings.
https://imslp.org/wiki/Maurerische_Trauermusik%2C_K.477%2F479a_(Mozart%2C_Wolfgang_Amadeus)
Use the FIRST set of parts [Breitkopf, 1985]

Mozart: Concerto for Basset Clarinet, K 622
Instrumentation: 2-0-0-2, 2-0-0-0, no percussion or timpani, strings
https://imslp.org/wiki/Clarinet_Concerto_in_A_major%2C_K.622_(Mozart%2C_Wolfgang_Amadeus)
Use the FIRST set of parts [Luck's reprint of Breitkopf]

Haydn: Symphony No. 75
Instrumentation: 1-2-0-1, 2-2-0-0, timpani, strings
Parts to be distributed, perhaps PDF in advance.


Concert 5: Saturday, April 26, 2025, 7:30 pm
with Ava Pakiam, violin, and Alon Goldstein, piano

Rehearsals (Saturdays at 10 am unless otherwise specified):
March: 22, 29
April: 5, 12, WEDNESDAY 23rd, 7:30 pm (no rehearsal April 19th)
Dress rehearsal: FRIDAY, April 25, 7:30 pm
Preconcert call: SATURDAY, April 26, 6:00 pm

Program

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Instrumentation: 1-1-2-1, 2-1-0-0, no timpani or percussion, strings
Parts: https://imslp.org/wiki/Siegfried-Idyll%2C_WWV_103_(Wagner%2C_Richard)
Use the Kalmus reprint of Breitkopf.

Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Instrumentation: 2-2-2-2. 4-2-0-0, timpani, strings
Parts: https://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_No.1%2C_Op.26_(Bruch%2C_Max)
Scroll down for the First Edition parts.

Dvorak: Two Legends Op. 59, Nos. 2 and 7
instrumentation, No. 2: 1-2-2-2, 4-0-0-0, no timpani or percussion, strings.   No. 7: 2-2-2-2, 2-0-0-0, timpani, strings
Parts: https://imslp.org/wiki/Legends,_Op.59_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k,_Anton%C3%ADn)
Scroll down for Kalmus reprints of Simrock parts, print out only the two Legends we will play.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 16, K. 451
Instrumentation: 1-2-0-2, 2-2-0-0, timpani, strings
Parts to be distributed, PDF in advance [the IMSLP material is unacceptable].


Concert 6: Saturday, June 14, 2025, 7:30 pm
with Marcolivia, violin duo

Rehearsals (Saturdays at 10 am unless otherwise specified):
May: 10, 17, 31 (no rehearsal May 24)
June: WEDNESDAY 4th, 7:30 PM, WEDNESDAY 11th, 7:30 PM (no rehearsal June 7)
Dress rehearsal: FRIDAY, June 13, 7:30 pm
Preconcert call: SATURDAY, June 14, 6:00 pm

Program

Bologne: Symphony in G
Honegger: Pastorale d’été
Bologne Symphony Concertante Op. 13 No. 2
Elgar: Elegy
Marsh: Symphony No. 6

Music links/details to follow. Elgar and Honegger from IMSLP,  rest to be distributed later in the season, possibly PDF.