2006-07 Season

Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra

Sunday, October 1, 4:00pm

Talley Student Center Ballroom

- Mozart, Overture to “Abduction to the Seraglio”

- Mozart, Symphony no. 40 (G minor)

- Wagner, Siegfried Idyll

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Gregory McCallum, piano
Jennifer Foster, soprano

Saturday, November 4, 2:00pm

NC Museum of History, Raleigh

Free Admission!

- Bela Bartok, Andante Religioso from Piano Concerto no. 3

- Kenneth Frazelle, Selections from Appalachian Songbook

- Kenneth Frazelle, Blue Ridge Airs (for piano)

Pianist Greg McCallum has performed across the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe in some of the world's most prestigious concert halls including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago, New York's Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London. A versatile musician, McCallum plays a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Brubeck, and has been praised by critics for his “deeply felt, sensitive playing” (Die Main Post, Germany) and “consummate technical and artistic skill” (The Spectator, Raleigh, N.C.). Internationally acclaimed composer Kenneth Frazelle was born in Jacksonville, NC, and teaches at the NC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.

Raleigh Civic Symphony, Randolph Foy, conductor
Gregory McCallum, piano

Sunday, November 12, 4:00pm

Stewart Theatre, NC State University

- Robert Ward, Jubilation – An Overture

- John Cage, Suite for Toy Piano, arr. by Lou Harrison

- Kenneth Frazelle, Laconic Variations

- Bela Bartok, Piano Concerto no. 3, with soloist Gregory McCallum

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Pulitzer Prize winning composer Robert Ward taught at Duke for many years and still resides in Durham. John Cage’s charming and whimsical “Suite for Toy Piano” was premiered at the experimental Black Mountain College, NC, in 1948. A few summers later at Black Mountain, his friend Lou Harrison arranged the pieces for large orchestra. Internationally acclaimed composer Kenneth Frazelle was born in Jacksonville, NC, and teaches at the NC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Bartok’s lovely, final Piano Concerto of 1945 was composed in part in Asheville, NC, when Bartok was living in New York and sent to Ashville for his health.

Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra, Randolph Foy, conductor
NC State Concert Choir, Alfred Sturgis, conductor
Katherine Williams, narrator

Sunday, November 19, 4:00pm

Stewart Theatre, NC State University

- Johann Fr. Peter, Four Moravian Anthems from Salem, NC (1780’s)

- Ted Gellar, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (premier)

- Lou Harrison, Pastorales for Chamber Orchestra

- J. Mark Scearce, Ouroboros

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The eighteenth-century music of the Moravians in what is now called “Old Salem” represented the earliest and most sophisticated music of the southern colonies. “Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl is a setting by Ted Gellar, a recent NC State graduate, of the famous narrative by Harriet Jacobs, slave in Edenton, North Carolina. Lou Harrison completed his Pastorales at Black Mountain College, NC, in 1952, where he experienced a “complete conversion to country living.” “Ouroboros” is a ballet score about the numerous powerful legends of snakes and serpents, by the award-winning composer J. Mark Scearce, Director of Music, NC State University.