Past Concerts

Titan

Saturday, October 5, 2024 • 7:00 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Maxim Eshkenazy, Guest Conductor

Program

• Maxim Eshkenazy — Concert Suite from The Hunt for Salamander
• Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 1 in D Major

Legends & Legacies

Saturday, December 7, 2024 • 7:00 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Geoffrey Pope, Guest Conductor
Gloria Cheng, Piano

Program

• Claude Debussy — Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
• John Williams — Prelude and Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra
• Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 1 in C Minor

Annual MLK Concert

Saturday, January 18, 2025 • 3:00 PM
Barnum Hall

Charles Dickerson, Guest Conductor
Dwayne Burrell, Guest Conductor
Gary Pratt, Guest Conductor

Program

• Margaret Bonds — The Montgomery Variations
• Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 3
• Gary Pratt — Pasture Songs
• Aaron Copland — Lincoln Portrait
• James Weldon Johnson & John Rosamond Johnson — Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
• Traditional — We Shall Overcome

An Eclectic Night

Saturday, March 8, 2025 • 7:00 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Pola Benke, Guest Conductor
Cathy Biagini, Cello

Program

• Felix Mendelssohn — The Hebrides Overture
• Dmitry Kabalevsky — Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 49Cathy Biagini, cello
• Josef Strauss — Sphärenklänge Waltz, Op. 235
• Joseph Haydn — Symphony No. 94 (“Surprise”)

Galactic Horizons

Saturday, May 10, 2025 • 7:00 PM
Barnum Hall

Danko Druško, Guest Conductor

Program

• Richard Strauss — Also sprach Zarathustra (Opening Fanfare)
• Gustav Holst — The Planets
  • I. Mars, the Bringer of War
  • II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
  • IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
  • VI. Uranus, the Magician
• Joe Hisaishi — My Neighbor Totoro
• Joe Hisaishi — Merry-Go-Round of Life
• Joe Hisaishi — One Summer’s Day
• John Williams — Star Wars Suite

Night at the Museum

Saturday, October 14, 2023 • 7:30 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Troy Quinn, Conductor
Roger Wilkie, Violin

Program

• John Williams — The Adventures of Mutt from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• John Williams — Marion’s Theme from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Camille Saint-Saëns — Danse Macabre
  Roger Wilkie, violin
• William Walton — Crown Imperial
• Modest Mussorgsky — Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Maurice Ravel)

Walz and Schumann

Saturday, December 2, 2023 • 7:30 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Troy Quinn, Conductor
John Walz, Cello

Program

• Jean Sibelius — Finlandia, Op. 26
• Camille Saint-Saëns — Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33
• Robert Schumann — Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120

Annual MLK Holiday Concert

Saturday, January 13, 2024 • 3:00 PM
SGI-USA World Peace Ikeda Auditorium

Gary Pratt, Guest Conductor
Bernard Brown, Choreographer & Dancer
John Daversa, Trumpet
Mary Bond Davis, Orator & Vocalist
Mawiyah Dowd, Dancer
Tonoccus McClain, Orator
Jermaine Paul, Double Bass
Darrel Sims, Tenor

Program

• Quinn Mason — Toast of the Town
• George Walker — Lyric for Strings
• James Weldon Johnson & John Rosamond Johnson — Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
• John Clayton — Home
• Traditional — We Shall Overcome

Roman Holiday

Sunday, March 10, 2024 • 7:30 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Troy Quinn, Conductor
Andrew Bain, Horn

Program

• Gioachino Rossini — Overture from William Tell
• Pietro Mascagni — Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
• Eric Ewazen — Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra
  Andrew Bain, horn
• Felix Mendelssohn — Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, “Italian”

A Night at the Oscars

Saturday, May 11, 2024 • 7:00 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Troy Quinn, Conductor

Program

• John Williams (arr.) — Tribute to the Film Composer
• Alan Silvestri — Main Title (Feather Theme) from Forrest Gump
• Jerry Goldsmith — Main Title from Star Trek
• James Horner — My Heart Will Go On from Titanic
• Nino Rota — Love Theme from The Godfather
• Bill Conti — Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky)
• Elmer Bernstein — The Magnificent Seven
• John Barry — Main Title from Out of Africa
• John Powell — Suite from How to Train Your Dragon
• Alan Menken — A Whole New World from Aladdin
• John Williams — Yoda’s Theme from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
• Henry Mancini — Moon River (End Title) from Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• John Williams — Main Title from Star Wars

78th Season Premiere Concert: Brahms and Tom

Saturday, October 15, 2022 • 8:00 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Troy Quinn, Music Director & Conductor
Thomas Hooten, Trumpet

Program

• Mikhail Glinka — Overture from Ruslan and Ludmila
• Franz Joseph Haydn — Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major
• Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98

Fantasy, Firebird, and Fabiola Concert

Sunday, December 4, 2022 • 7:00 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Troy Quinn, Music Director & Conductor
Fabiola Kim, Violin

Program

• John Powell — Suite from How to Train Your Dragon (arr. Sean O’Laughlin)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams — The Lark Ascending
• Igor Stravinsky — The Firebird Suite (1919 Version)

Annual Martin Luther King Holiday Concert

Saturday, January 14, 2023 • 3:00 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Gary Pratt, Guest Conductor
Jason Stoll, Piano
Tonoccus McClain, Orator

Program

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Danse Nègre from African Suite, Op. 35
• George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue
• Florence Price — Symphony No. 1 in E Minor
• Traditional — We Shall Overcome

Bohemian Beethoven

Saturday, March 11, 2023 • 7:30 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Troy Quinn, Music Director & Conductor
Erik Rynearson, Viola

Program

• Bedřich Smetana — Overture from The Bartered Bride
• Freddie Mercury — Bohemian Rhapsody (arr. Tim Olt)
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

May the Fourteenth Be With You: A Tribute to John Williams

Sunday, May 14, 2023 • 3:00 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Troy Quinn, Music Director & Conductor
Roger Wilkie, Violin

Program

• John Williams — Superman March from Superman
• John Williams — Nimbus 2000 from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
• John Williams — Rey’s Theme from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• John Williams — March of the Resistance from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• John Williams — Theme from Schindler’s List
• John Williams — Flying Theme from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• John Williams — Theme from Jurassic Park
• John Williams — With Malice Toward None from Lincoln
• John Williams — Finale from Far and Away
• John Williams — Princess Leia’s Theme from Star Wars
• John Williams — The Imperial March from Star Wars
• John Williams — Throne Room and End Title from Star Wars

77th Season Premiere Concert

Sunday, October 17, 2021 • 3:00 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Troy Quinn, Guest Conductor

Program

• Jules Massenet — Méditation from Thaïs
• Georges Bizet — Farandole from L’Arlésienne
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

Winter Concert

Saturday, December 11, 2021 • 7:30 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

David Avshalomov, Guest Conductor
Roger Wilke, Violin

Program

• Felix Mendelssohn — Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

Annual Martin Luther King Holiday Concert

Saturday, February 19, 2022 • 7:00 PM
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Gary Pratt, Guest Conductor
Leonard Hayes, Piano

Program

• Florence Price — Piano Concerto in One Movement
• Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, “From the New World”, Op. 95
• Traditional — We Shall Overcome

Spring Concert

Sunday, March 27, 2022
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Brian Stone, Guest Conductor
Antonio Lysy, Cello

Program

• Antonín Dvořák — Carnival Overture, Op. 92
• Robert Schumann — Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129
• Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

Memorial Weekend Concert

Sunday, May 29, 2022
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Zain Khan, Guest Conductor
YuEun Gemma Kim, Violin

Program

• Jean Sibelius — Finlandia, Op. 26
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
• Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88

75th Season Premiere Concert

Sunday, October 20, 2019 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Robert deMaine, Cello

Program

• Carl Maria von Weber — Overture to Oberon
• George Gershwin — An American in Paris
• Antonín Dvořák — Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104

Winter Concert

Saturday, December 14, 2019 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor

K–5 Student Outreach: Joy of Music Concert

Friday, December 6, 2019
Edison Elementary School, Santa Monica

Program

• Sergei Prokofiev — Peter and the Wolf

Annual Martin Luther King Holiday Concert

Saturday, January 18, 2020 • 2:00 PM
SGI Auditorium

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Rich Capparela, Narrator

Program

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Overture to Hiawatha
• Aaron Copland — Lincoln Portrait
• William Grant Still — Afro-American Symphony
• Traditional — We Shall Overcome

Chamber Music Virtual Concert

Thursday, June 11, 2020
Virtual Performance

Lily Press, Harp
Simon Linn-Gerstein, Cello

Program

• Camille Saint-Saëns — The Swan
• Camille Saint-Saëns — Fantaisie, Op. 124
• Heitor Villa-Lobos — O Canto do Cisne Negro

Chamber Music Virtual Concert

Saturday, July 18, 2020
Virtual Performance

Julia Yang, Cello
Iris Hsu, Piano

Program

• Frédéric Chopin — Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 65
• Lili Boulanger — Nocturne for Violin and Piano (arr. Paul Van der Reijden)

74th Season Premiere Concert

Saturday, October 20, 2018 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Roman Kim, Violin

Program

• Leonard Bernstein — Overture to Candide
• Roman Kim — Violin Concerto No. 1 in B Minor
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36

Music from the Movies

Sunday, December 2, 2018 • 7:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Harvey Pittel, Saxophone

Program

• Richard Wagner — Ride of the Valkyries (Apocalypse Now)
• John Williams — Escapades from Catch Me If You Can
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Selections from The Nutcracker

Annual Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend Concert

Saturday, January 19, 2019 • 2:00 PM
SGI Auditorium

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Mark Edward Smith, Bass-Baritone

Program

• Evelyn Simpson-Curenton Albert — Courage
• George Walker — Lyric for Strings
• James Weldon Johnson & John Rosamond Johnson — Lift Every Voice and Sing
• William Steffe — Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen from The Magic Flute
• Felix Mendelssohn — Symphony No. 5 in D Major, “Reformation”, Op. 107

Coming to America: Music by Immigrant Composers

Sunday, April 14, 2019 • 7:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Roberto Cani, Violin

Program

• John Stafford Smith, arr. Igor Stravinsky — The Star-Spangled Banner
• Ernesto Lecuona — Malagueña
• Franz Waxman — Carmen Fantasy
• Sergei Rachmaninoff — Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Memorial Day Concert and Season Finale

Sunday, May 27, 2019 • 7:00 PM

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Nicholas Mendez del Valle, Piano
SMS Concerto Competition Winner

Program

• Giuseppe Verdi — Overture to La Forza del Destino
• Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
• Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98

Summer Concert in Reed Park

Saturday, July 27, 2019 • 6:00 PM
Reed Park

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Lauren Wasynczuk, Guest Conductor
Maximo Marcuso, Tenor

Program

• Dmitri Shostakovich — Festival Overture, Op. 96
• Johann Strauss II — Tales from the Vienna Woods
• Ennio Morricone, arr. Vanacore — Nella Fantasia
• Andrew Lloyd Webber — The Phantom of the Opera
• Giacomo Puccini, arr. Vanacore — Nessun Dorma from Turandot
• José Pablo Moncayo — Huapango
• Aaron Copland — Saturday Night Waltz from Rodeo
• Aaron Copland — Buckaroo Holiday from Rodeo
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34

73rd Season Premiere Concert

Sunday, October 22, 2017 • 7:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• Anatoly Lyadov — The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62
• Sergei Prokofiev — Selections from Romeo and Juliet
• Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47

Children’s Outreach Event: Chair-to-Chair Open Rehearsal

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 • 7:00–8:00 PM
Wednesday, October 29, 2017 • 7:00–7:45 PM
Grant Elementary School Auditorium

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor

Young Professionals Outreach Event: Wine, Networking & Music

Monday, November 13, 2017 • 7:00–9:00 PM
Private Residence, Santa Monica

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Featured Speaker

Winter Holiday Concert

Sunday, December 3, 2017 • 7:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Annelle Gregory, Violin Soloist

Program

• Gioachino Rossini — Overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold — Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
• Jean Sibelius — Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39

Annual Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend Concert

Saturday, January 13, 2018 • 2:00 PM
SGI Auditorium

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Cedric Berry, Bass-Baritone Soloist & Narrator

Program

• Aaron Copland — Fanfare for the Common Man
• Duke Ellington — Black, Brown and Beige
• Giacomo Puccini — Te Deum (Scarpia’s Aria from Tosca)
• Joseph Schwantner — A New Morning for the World

Children’s Outreach Event: Chair-to-Chair Open Rehearsal

Wednesday, March 14, 2018 • 7:00–8:00 PM
Grant Elementary School Auditorium

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor

Spring Concert: An Evening of Romantic Music

Saturday, March 24, 2018 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
So-Mang Jeagal, Piano Soloist

Program

• Richard Wagner — Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
• Franz Schubert — Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, “Unfinished”
• Johannes Brahms — Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15

Annual Spring Gala at Mayor Riordan’s Residence

Saturday, May 26, 2018 • 5:00–9:00 PM
Mayor Riordan’s Home, Brentwood Estate

Chamber Music Performed By:

• Guido Lamell — Violin
• Rebecca Reale — Violin
• Eric Rynearson — Viola
• Lynn Harrell — Cello
• Maria Demina — Piano

Annual Memorial Day Weekend Concert

Sunday, May 27, 2018 • 7:00 PM

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• Maurice Ravel — Le Tombeau de Couperin
• George Butterworth — The Banks of Green Willow
• Ralph Vaughan Williams — Symphony No. 3 “Pastoral”
• Manuel de Falla — Ritual Fire Dance

Summer Concert in Reed Park

Saturday, July 21, 2018 • 6:00 PM
Reed Park

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Cedric Berry, Bass-Baritone
Etienne Gara, Violin

Program

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
• Antonio Vivaldi — Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 8, RV 315 “Summer” from The Four Seasons
• Gioachino Rossini — Overture to Semiramide
• Johann Strauss II — Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
• Felix Mendelssohn — Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• George Gershwin — Summertime
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” (Allegro ma non troppo)
• John Sebastian, arr. Ferguson — Summer in the City

72nd Season Premiere Concert

Sunday, October 9, 2016 • 7:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• Bedřich Smetana — The Moldau
• Stephen Boone — Music Without Water: A Drought Symphony
• Claude Debussy — La Mer

Holiday Matinee Concert

Saturday, December 3, 2016 • 3:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Martin Beaver, Violin
Andrew Shulman, Cello

Program

• Johannes Brahms — Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 & 6
• Johannes Brahms — Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102

Annual Martin Luther King Day Concert

Saturday, January 14, 2017 • 2:30 PM
SGI Auditorium, Santa Monica

Annelle Gregory, Violin

Program

• Adolphus Hailstork — Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed
• Samuel Barber — Violin Concerto, Op. 14
• Aaron Copland — Appalachian Spring

Giuseppe Verdi Requiem

Saturday, April 1, 2017 • 3:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Caroline McKenzie, Soprano
Tracy Van Fleet, Alto
Timothy Gonzalez, Tenor
James Raycroft, Bass-Baritone

Program

• Giuseppe Verdi — Requiem

Spring Gala with Mayor Riordan

Saturday, May 27, 2017 • 5:00–9:00 PM

Chamber Music Performed By:

• Vijay Gupta — Violin
• Guido Lamell — Violin
• Dale Hikawa Silverman — Viola
• Dahae Kim — Cello
• So-Mang Jeagal — Piano

Memorial Day Concert and Season Finale

Sunday, May 28, 2017 • 7:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Ronald Leonard, Cello

Program

• Armed Forces Salute
• Sir Edward Elgar — Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85
• Igor Stravinsky — The Firebird Suite

71st Season Premiere Concert

Saturday, October 10, 2015 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Nathan Cole, Violin

Program

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
• Henryk Wieniawski — Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 22
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, “Pathétique”, Op. 74

Winter Concert

Saturday, December 12, 2015 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• Elmer Bernstein — Theme from The Magnificent Seven
• John Williams — Superman March
• John Williams — Theme from Jurassic Park
• John Williams — Star Wars Suite
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, “Eroica”, Op. 55

Annual Martin Luther King Day Concert

Saturday, January 17, 2016 • 2:30 PM
SGI Auditorium, Santa Monica

Caroline McKenzie, Soprano

Program

• Gaetano Donizetti — O Mio Fernando from La Favorite
• Franz Schubert — Ave Maria
• Traditional Spirituals
  • Gospel Train
  • Deep River
  • Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
  • My Soul Is Anchored in the Lord
  • We Shall Overcome
• Aaron Copland — Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes

Spring Concert

Saturday, March 12, 2016 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Mak Grgić, Guitar

Program

• George Gershwin — Cuban Overture
• Joaquín Rodrigo — Concierto de Aranjuez
• José Pablo Moncayo — Huapango
• Leonard Bernstein — Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Memorial Day Concert & Season Finale

Sunday, May 29, 2016 • 7:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Robert Thies, Piano

Program

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36
• Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
• Modest Mussorgsky — Pictures at an Exhibition

70th Season Premiere Concert

Saturday, October 18, 2014 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Robert deMaine, Cello

Program

• Carl Maria von Weber — Overture to Oberon
• Joseph Haydn — Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2
• Camille Saint-Saëns — Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33
• Ottorino Respighi — Pines of Rome

Winter Concert

Sunday, December 7, 2014 • 7:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Elissa Johnston, Soprano
Tracy Van Fleet, Mezzo-Soprano
Ashley Faatoalia, Tenor
Cedric Berry, Baritone

Program

• Georges Bizet — Seguidilla from Carmen
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Là ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni
• Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125

Annual Martin Luther King Day Concert

Saturday, January 17, 2015 • 2:30 PM
SGI Auditorium, Santa Monica

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Niki J Crawford, Vocalist
Ward AME Church Choir

Program

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Ballade in A Minor, Op. 33
• Thomas A. Dorsey — Precious Lord, Take My Hand
• James Weldon Johnson & John Rosamond Johnson — Lift Every Voice and Sing
• Traditional — There Is a Balm in Gilead
• Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
• Traditional — We Shall Overcome (Sing-Along)

Spring Concert

Saturday, March 14, 2015 • 7:30 PM
Wilshire Boulevard Temple

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Vijay Gupta, Violin

Program

• Ludwig van Beethoven — Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
• John Williams — Theme from Schindler’s List
• Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90

Santa Monica Festival

Saturday, May 9, 2015
Clover Park, Santa Monica

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Santa Monica Symphony String Quartet

Program

• Antonio Vivaldi — The Four Seasons
• Samuel Barber — String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11
• Johann Strauss II — The Blue Danube Waltz
• Johann Strauss II — Tales from the Vienna Woods

Season Finale Concert

Saturday, May 23, 2015 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Antoinette Perry, Piano

Program

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467
• Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 1 in D Major

69th Season Premiere Concert

Saturday, October 19, 2013 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Roberto Cani, Violin

Program

• Giuseppe Verdi — Overture to La Forza del Destino
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
• Jean Sibelius — Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

Holiday Concert

Saturday, December 14, 2013 • 3:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Steven Vanhauwaert, Piano
Legal Voices, Cantori Domino & Friends, Choirs

Program

• Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 6 in F Major, “Pastoral”, Op. 68
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Choral Fantasy in C Minor, Op. 80
• Giuseppe Verdi — Va, pensiero from Nabucco
• George Frideric Handel — Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah

Annual Martin Luther King Day Concert

Saturday, January 18, 2014 • 7:30 PM
SGI Auditorium, Santa Monica

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Bryan Pezzone, Piano

Program

• Gioachino Rossini — Overture to William Tell
• James P. Johnson — Harlem Symphony
• George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue
• Traditional — We Shall Overcome

Spring Concert

Sunday, March 9, 2014 • 7:00 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Heidi Hatch, Violin

Program

• Alexander Borodin — Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
• Alexander Glazunov — Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 82
• Sergei Rachmaninoff — Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27

Season Finale Concert

Saturday, May 24, 2014 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Music Director & Conductor
Robert Daggy, Organ

Program

• Carlos Gardel — Por Una Cabeza
• Astor Piazzolla — Libertango
• Camille Saint-Saëns — Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, “Organ Symphony”, Op. 78
• Hector Berlioz — Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14

68th Season Concert

Sunday, November 11, 2012 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Conductor

Program

• Ludwig van Beethoven — Egmont Overture, Op. 84
• Johannes Brahms — Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Scheherazade, Op. 35

Annual Martin Luther King Concert

Sunday, January 20, 2013 • 7:30 PM
SGI Auditorium, Santa Monica

Guido Lamell, Conductor
Ralph Cato, Baritone

Program

• Aaron Copland — Fanfare for the Common Man
• Lee Hoiby — I Have a Dream for Baritone and Orchestra
• Adolphus Hailstork — Three Spirituals for Orchestra
• Adolphus Hailstork — Fanfare on Amazing Grace
• Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, “From the New World”, Op. 95

Spring Concert

Saturday, March 9, 2013 • 7:30 PM
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Guido Lamell, Conductor
Minh Nguyen, Piano

Program

• Hector Berlioz — Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9
• Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
• Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

Tchaikovsky Spectacular: A Farewell Tribute to Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Saturday, May 25, 2013 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Guido Lamell, Conductor
Antonio Lysy, Cello

Program

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — 1812 Overture, Op. 49 (Finale)

67th Season Premiere Concert

Saturday, October 29, 2011 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Tereza Stanislav, Violin
Cecilia Tsan, Cello

Program

• Libby Larsen — Collage: Boogie
• Johannes Brahms — Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102
• Alexander Borodin — Symphony No. 2 in B Minor

Winter Concert

Saturday, December 10, 2011 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• William Mathias — Laudi
• Alberto Ginastera — Pampeana No. 3
• Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Op. 60

Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Weekend Family Concert

Sunday, January 15, 2012 • 3:20 PM
SGI Auditorium, Santa Monica

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• Antonín Dvořák — Three Slavonic Dances
• Chen Yi — Duo Ye
• Miguel del Águila Del Monte — Paisajes, Concerto for Flamenco Guitar and Orchestra (Premiere)
• Georges Bizet — Carmen Suite No. 2

Spring Concert

Saturday, March 10, 2012 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Gloria Cheng, Piano

Program

• Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
• John Adams — Eros Piano
• Richard Strauss — Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24

Season Finale Concert

Saturday, May 26, 2012 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Steven Vanhauwaert, Piano

Program

• Otto Nicolai — Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Edvard Grieg — Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16
• Robert Schumann — Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, “Rhenish”, Op. 97

66th Season Premiere Concert

Saturday, October 30, 2010 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
John Walz, Cello

Program

• Damián Montano — Rhapsody and Scherzo
• Robert Schumann — Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

Family Concert

Saturday, December 11, 2010 • 3:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• Frank Ticheli — Shooting Stars
• Antonín Dvořák — The Noon Witch, Op. 108
• Alberto Ginastera — Four Dances from Estancia
• Joseph Haydn — Symphony No. 94 in G Major, “Surprise”

Annual Martin Luther King Day Concert

Sunday, January 16, 2011 • 3:30 PM
SGI Auditorium, Santa Monica

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Danielle Belen, Violin

Program

• Silvestre Revueltas — Redes
• Henri Vieuxtemps — Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Minor, Op. 37
• Felix Mendelssohn — Symphony No. 5 in D Major, “Reformation”, Op. 107

Fundraiser Piano Recital

Saturday, March 5, 2011 • 6:30 PM

Peter Toth, Piano

Spring Concert

Saturday, March 12, 2011 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Peter Toth, Piano

Program

• Gioachino Rossini — Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri
• Franz Liszt — Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major
• Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54

Season Finale Concert

Saturday, May 28, 2011 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Michael Emery, Violin

Program

• Gustav Mahler — Totenfeier
• Antonín Dvořák — Romance in F Minor, Op. 11
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

64th Season Concert

Saturday, November 8, 2008 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Katia Popov, Violin

Program

• Max Bruch — Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
• Richard Wagner — Good Friday Spell from Parsifal
• Richard Wagner — Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Annual Martin Luther King Concert

Sunday, January 18, 2009 • 3:30 PM
SGI Auditorium, Santa Monica

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Jovanni De Pedro, Piano

Program

• Adolphus Hailstork — Symphony No. 1
• William Grant Still — Danzas de Panamá
• Johannes Brahms — Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83

Spring Concert

Sunday, March 15, 2009 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• Ludwig van Beethoven — Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 124
• Zoltán Kodály — Dances of Galánta
• Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70

Season Finale Concert

Sunday, May 24, 2009 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Michael Emery, Violin
Catherine Del Russo, Oboe
Ernest Ehrhardt, Cello
David Riddles, Bassoon

Program

• Georges Bizet — Jeux d’enfants
• Joseph Haydn — Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat Major, Hob. I:105
• Felix Mendelssohn — Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, “Scottish”, Op. 56

63rd Season Premiere Concert

Sunday, October 7, 2007 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Cecilia Tsan, Cello

Program

• Sir Edward Elgar — Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, Op. 39
• Benjamin Britten — Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
• Sir Edward Elgar — Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85
• Joseph Haydn — Symphony No. 104 in D Major, “London”

Winter Concert

Sunday, December 9, 2007 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
• Christopher Rouse — Flute Concerto
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, “Eroica”, Op. 55

Annual Martin Luther King Concert

Sunday, January 20, 2008 • 3:30 PM
SGI Auditorium, Santa Monica

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Zev Yaroslavsky, Narrator
Kaila Potts, Viola

Program

• Carl Stamitz — Viola Concerto in D Major
• Desby — Spiritual and Famin’ Mamie
• Joseph Schwantner — A New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom
• Musical Setting for the Words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spring Concert

Sunday, March 9, 2008 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• Carl Maria von Weber — Overture to Der Freischütz
• Antonín Dvořák — Czech Suite, Op. 39
• Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98

Season Finale Concert

Sunday, May 25, 2008 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Gary Bovyer, Clarinet

Program

• Alberto Ginastera — Overture to Fausto Criollo
• Maurice Ravel — Pavane for a Dead Princess
• Claude Debussy — Premiere of Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra
• David Newman — Music for Clarinet and Orchestra (Premiere)
• Maurice Ravel — Rapsodie Espagnole

62nd Season Premiere Concert

Sunday, October 8, 2006 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Max Levinson, Piano

Program

• Antonín Dvořák — Carnival Overture, Op. 92
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
• Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 70

Winter Concert

Sunday, December 10, 2006 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Elizabeth Pitcairn, Violin

Program

• Richard Wagner — Overture to The Flying Dutchman
• Édouard Lalo — Symphonie Espagnole, Op. 21
• Jean Sibelius — Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

Martin Luther King Commemorative Concert

Monday, January 15, 2007 • 2:30 PM
SGI Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Juandalynn Abernathy, Soprano

Program

• Adolphus Hailstork — Epitaph for Martin Luther King
• William Grant Still — Afro-American Symphony
• Aaron Copland — Old American Songs
• Traditional — Spirituals

Spring Concert

Sunday, March 11, 2007 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor

Program

• Gioachino Rossini — Overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
• Andre Myers — Shades of Color
• Modest Mussorgsky — Pictures at an Exhibition

Children’s Concert: Music and Pictures

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 • 10:30 AM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor

Theme: Music and Pictures
Featuring excerpts from Pictures at an Exhibition.

Season Finale Concert

Sunday, May 27, 2007 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Darren Mulder, Trumpet

Program

• Ludwig van Beethoven — Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72a
• Joseph Haydn — Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major, Hob. VIIe:1
• Charles Ives — Symphony No. 2

61st Season Premiere Concert

Sunday, October 9, 2005 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Rina Dokshitsky, Piano

Program

• Felix Mendelssohn — Overture to Ruy Blas, Op. 95
• Richard Strauss — Don Juan, Op. 20
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58

Winter Concert

Sunday, December 11, 2005 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Susan Greenberg, Piccolo
Patricia Kindel, Contrabassoon

Program

• Franz Schubert — Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200
• Damián Montano — Concerto for Piccolo and Contrabassoon (West Coast Premiere)
• Aaron Copland — Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo

Spring Concert

Sunday, March 19, 2006 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
Jessica Rivera, Soprano

Program

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 36 in C Major, “Linz”, K. 425
• Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 4 in G Major

Season Finale Concert

Sunday, May 28, 2006 • 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Allen Robert Gross, Music Director & Conductor
David Garrett, Cello

Program

• Ludwig van Beethoven — Leonore Overture No. 1, Op. 138
• Camille Saint-Saëns — Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33
• Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73