Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Saturday, 7 September 2019 - 6:30 PM

This elegant black-tie evening features intimate cabaret style seating, fine fare, a short live auction and a Baton Drawing - one lucky guest will conduct the ASO! All to benefit the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, a community-sponsored organization.

Many have been attending Champagne Pops for years and know how quickly the premier tables and seats sell out. To our returning guests, thank you for your continued support of the Anchorage Symphony and this opportunity to bring our community together. To our new guests, welcome. We know you will feel at once at home with great music, great fun, and great friends.

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Program TBA

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

A French Connection

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Saturday, 21 September 2019 - 8:00 PM

- Van Cliburn medalist, Daniel Hsu returns to the Atwood Stage after his commanding performance in March 2019. This time he tackles Chopin's spirited Piano Concerto No. 1.

- Inspired by his trip to the French capital, Gershwin's An American in Paris evokes the sights and energy of the City of Lights. He even brought back Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere!

- Described as "a tribute to the waltz", Ravel's La valse reveals the depths of his romanticism, power, and vigor.

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Berlioz: Rob Roy Overture

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Chopin: Concerto for Piano no 1 in E minor, B 53/Op. 11

Artist: Daniel Hsu (Piano)

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Gershwin: An American in Paris

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Ravel: La valse

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

The Cheechakos Silent Film

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Saturday, 5 October 2019 - 8:00 PM

An engineer saves a shipwrecked girl from a gambler in this dramatization of the lives of Alaskan settlers. The Cheechakcos was the first feature filmed entirely in Alaska and the only film by Cap Lathrop’s Alaska Moving Pictures Co. According to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library Alaska Film Archives, “the film boasted Alaska cast members and spectacular location shooting that vied with the best Hollywood productions.” In 2003, The Cheechakos was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Program TBA

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Trailblazers

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Saturday, 9 November 2019 - 8:00 PM

- The Egmont Overture commissioned for a play by the same name by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe. Composed during the Napoleonic Wars, Beethoven used this piece to express his political opinion against Napoleon's oppressive government.

- Anchorage audiences may remember Zach DePue as a founding member of the jazz trio, Time for Three. He returns to the Atwood Stage to perform Dvorák's Violin Concerto, a masterpiece from his Slavic period.

- An undeniable trailblazer, Florence Beatrice Smith Price's Symphony No. 1 was the first symphony by an African-American woman to be performed by a major American orchestra (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1933).

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: Egmont Overture

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Dvorak: Concerto for Violin in A minor, Op. 53

Artist: Zach DePue (Violin)

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Price: Symphony No. 1

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Young People's Concert - Symphony Under Construction

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Tuesday, 12 November 2019 - 10:00 AM

With wit and enthusiasm, Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer and the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra present Symphony Under Construction. This Young People’s Concert explores elements of musical composition through performances of Tchaikovsky, Strauss and other masters, including a finale surprisingly written by the audience during the concert!

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Program TBA

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Young People's Concert - Symphony Under Construction

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Tuesday, 12 November 2019 - 12:00 PM

With wit and enthusiasm, Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer and the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra present Symphony Under Construction. This Young People’s Concert explores elements of musical composition through performances of Tchaikovsky, Strauss and other masters, including a finale surprisingly written by the audience during the concert!

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Program TBA

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Silent Film Double Feature

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Saturday, 11 January 2020 - 8:00 PM

BUSTER KEATON - Sherlock Jr.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN - The Pawnshop

- When his fiancée is robbed, a kindly movie projectionist (Buster Keaton) is framed, but uses his amateur sleuthing skills to solve the case, clear his name, and win back the girl.

- Chaplin plays an assistant in a pawnshop where he goes about his job in his usual comic manner. When a customer brings in an alarm clock to be pawned, Chaplin engages in one of his most famous solo sustained comedy bits.

Program TBA

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Moonrise

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Saturday, 25 January 2020 - 8:00 PM

- Elgar described his popular overture as "cheerful and Londony...honest, healthy, humorous and strong, but not vulgar". Listen out for cockneys, church bells, couples in love, and various brass bands.

- Sibelius' lush and romantic Symphony No. 1 is thought to have one of the most unique openings in the genre with a lone clarinet underscored by a rumbling timpani, creating a theme out of which the entire symphony develops.

- Dr. Jose´ Francisco Salgado returns to the Atwood stage with Moonrise, a film comprised of NASA images celebrating man's landing on the moon set, to Ravel's beautiful orchestral suites from Daphnis et Chloé.

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Elgar: Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40 "In London Town"

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Sibelius: Symphony no 1 in E minor, Op. 39

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suites No. 1 and 2

Artist: Dr. Jose Francisco Salgado

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone™ in Concert

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Friday, 7 February 2020 - 7:30 PM

Learning on his 11th birthday that he is a wizard destined for greatness, Harry leaves for wizarding school for the first time in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone™. This concert presents the first movie of the unforgettable series while a live orchestra performs John Williams’ enchanting score. Join us for an evening of music and magic.

HARRY POTTER characters, names and related indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WIZARDING WORLD trademark and logo © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s19)

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Williams: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Young People's Concert - Symphony Under Construction

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Tuesday, 11 February 2020 - 10:00 AM

With wit and enthusiasm, Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer and the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra present Symphony Under Construction. This Young People’s Concert explores elements of musical composition through performances of Tchaikovsky, Strauss and other masters, including a finale surprisingly written by the audience during the concert!

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Program TBA

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Young People's Concert - Symphony Under Construction

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Tuesday, 11 February 2020 - 12:00 PM

With wit and enthusiasm, Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer and the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra present Symphony Under Construction. This Young People’s Concert explores elements of musical composition through performances of Tchaikovsky, Strauss and other masters, including a finale surprisingly written by the audience during the concert!

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Program TBA

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Musical Fantasies

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Saturday, 29 February 2020 - 8:00 PM

- In his tribute to Thomas Tallis, Vaughan Williams composed an ethereal piece that involves a full string orchestra, a smaller orchestra of nine players, and a string quartet to all perform at the same time.

- Anchorage Symphony principal clarinetist, Karl Pasch performs the premiere of his new concerto.

- Written over a decade before Howard Shore scored the films, Johan de Meij’s first symphony The Lord of the Rings is based on the trilogy of the same name by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Pasch: Clarinet Concerto

Artist: Karl Pasch (Clarinet)

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Meij: Symphony no 1 "The Lord of the Rings"

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Season Finale

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: Atwood Concert Hall

Anchorage, Alaska

Saturday, 4 April 2020 - 8:00 PM

- One of Rossini’s most memorable and exciting opera overtures, The Thieving Magpie opens with an aggressive and militaristic theme followed by the drama and intrigue surrounding the theft of a silver spoon.

- This year's Musica Nova composer is Vivian Fung, an award-winning composer with a unique talent for combining idiosyncratic textures and styles into large-scale works, reflecting her multicultural background. Her new Trumpet Concerto features Classical Trumpeter and Gold Medal Global Music Award-Winner Mary Elizabeth Bowden .

- Vivaldi's Gloria is one of sacred music's most uplifting choral works - a piece of high drama and hidden performers. We are thrilled to be joined by Concert Choirs from Bartlett, Dimond, South, and West High Schools.

Presenter: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Rossini: Overture to La gazza ladra, The Thieving Magpie

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Fung: Trumpet Concerto

Artist: Mary Bowden (Trumpet)

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Debussy: General Lavine - eccentric, from Preludes Book II

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Debussy: Rêverie

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Debussy: Golliwog's Cakewalk

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

Vivaldi: Gloria in D major, RV 589

Artists: Bartlett High School Concert Choir (Vocals); Dimond High School Concert Choir (Vocals); South Anchorage High School Concert Choir (Vocals); West Anchorage High School Concert Choir (Vocals)

Ensemble: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Randall Craig Fleischer

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