SEPTEMBER 3, 1978 @ 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

The Light Opera of Manhattan
William Mount-Burke, conductor

Lehar
Merry Widow

New English translation by Alice Hammerstein Mathias

Broadcast live over WNYC

JULY 30, 1978 @ 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Naumburg Orchestra
Jacques Singer, conductor
Leslie Parnas, cello soloist

Bernstein      
Overture: Candide

Beethoven    
Symphony no. 7 in A Major

Haydn         
Cello Concerto in D

Rimsky-Korsakov  
Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34

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JULY 2, 1978 @ 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

The Empire Brass
Rolf Smedvig & Charles Lewis trumpets, David Ohanian F. horn, Norman Bolter trombone, Samuel Pilafian tuba

Three Fanfares for Two Trumpets (anon.)

Handel         
Two Arias

Hovaness    
Sharagan and Fugue

Ives             
Five Songs

Bernstein     
Suite from West Side Story

Corelli         
Concerto Grosso no. 11

Ewald          
Brass Quintet

American Brass Suite including works by Stephen Foster

Scott Joplin    
Rag (unspecified)

Brian Fennelley   
Premiere of  “Empirical Rag”

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MAY 28, 1978 @ 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Naumburg Orchestra
Richard Woitach, conductor
Benita Valente, soprano

Mozart      
Symphony no. 25 in G Minor

Arias of Mozart and Puccini, works of Schubert and Granados

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