Featured Works for May – First Concert
(*Indicates May birthday)
May 1 W Leo Sowerby*: Florida Suite
May 2 T Henry Purcell: Instrumental Music from The Fairy Queen
May 3 F Francis Poulenc: Concert champêtre
May 6 M Gustav Holst: Symphony in F major; “The Cotswolds”
May 7 T Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky*: Variations on a Rococo Theme
May 8 W Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat; “Dumbarton Oaks”
May 9 T Julius Röntgen*: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Hartmann
May 10 F Richard Strauss: Prelude to “Guntram”
May 13 M Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major; “Italian”
May 14 T Emilie Mayer*: Piano Sonata
May 15 W Lars-Erik Larsson*: Baroroco Suite for Orchestra
May 16 T Gabriel Fauré: Cello Sonata in D minor
May 17 F Ottorino Respighi: Pines of Rome
May 20 M Mikhail Glinka*: Sextet in E flat major
May 21 T Luigi Otto: Trumpet Concerto
May 22 W William Grant Still: Sadjhi
May 23 T Andrea Luchesi*: Piano Sonata in C major
May 24 F Aram Khachaturian*: Dance Suite
May 27 M Margaret Buechner*: The Blue and the Gray
May 28 T Giovanni Sgambati*: Cola di Rienzo Overture
May 29 W Eric Wolfgang Korngold*: Violin Concerto
May 30 T Aaron Copland: Clarinet Concerto
May 31 F Marin Marais*: Suite in D major
Featured Works for May – Siskiyou Music Hall
(*Indicates May birthday)
May 1 W Hugo Alfven*: Symphony No. 3
May 2 T Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Symphony No. 13
May 3 F Alan Rawsthorne*: Piano Concerto No. 2
May 6 M Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst*: Three Rondinos on themes of Meyerbeer
May 7 T Johannes Brahms*: Piano Concerto No. 1
May 8 W Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz*: Harp Concerto No. 6
May 9 T Carl Stamitz*: Orchestral Quartet No. 4
May 10 F Jean-Marie LeClair*: Recreation No. 2 in G minor
May 13 M Sir Arthur Sullivan*: Irish Symphony
May 14 T Johann Peter Emilius Harmann*: “The Valkyrie”
May 15 W Antonin Dvorák: Piano Trio No. 1
May 16 T Henri Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 4
May 17 F Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 50, “Mount St. Helens”
May 20 M Ottorino Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque
May 21 T Felix Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No. 1
May 22 W Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Symphony No. 3, “Lapland”
May 23 T Ignaz Moscheles*: Piano Concerto No. 3
May 24 F Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky*: Souvenir de Florence
May 27 M Joachim Raff*: Symphony No. 3, “Im Walde”
May 28 T Johan Svendsen: String Octet in A major
May 29 W Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
May 30 T Luigi Boccherini: String Quartet in A major
May 31 F Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 34