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2008-2009 Season

CHASE Summer Park Concerts
Kalamazoo Barbershop Chorus
Raymond Harvey, Conductor

Wednesday, July 9, 8:15 pm Sherman Lake YMCA
Sunday, July 13, 8:00 pm Kalamazoo
Monday, July 14, 8:00 pm Parchment
Wednesday, July 16, 8:00 pm Plainwell
Thursday, July 17, 8:00 pm Three Rivers
Friday, July 18, 8:00 pm Portage


Opening Night Dance

Friday, September 19, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Miller Auditorium
Christopher Ruud and Christiana Bennett, Ballet WestPrincipal Dancers
Raymond Harvey, Conductor

Tchaikovsky Dance from The Oprichnik

Tchaikovsky “White Swan” from Swan Lake

Rachmaninoff Capriccio bohemien

Gershwin “The Man I Love” from Who Cares?
choreography by George Balanchine

Ravel Daphnis & Chloe Suite No. 2


Concertmaster Diana Cohen in Recital

Sunday, September 21, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
WMU Dalton Center


Fall Evening

Friday October 3, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 4, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Epic Theatre

Danzi Woodwind Quintet Op. 68, No. 1, A Major

Beethoven String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4


Perfect Purple Feather

October 11, 2008, 10:00 a.m.
Epic Center


Horacio Gutierrez

Friday, October 17, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Miller Auditorium
Horacio Gutierrez, Piano
Raymond Harvey, Conductor

Debussy Sarabande

Debussy Petite Suite

Elgar In the South

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2


The World of…Debussy

Sunday, October 19, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
Light Fine Arts Center
Raymond Harvey, Conductor


Broadway Hits!

Saturday, October 25, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Chenery Auditorium
featuring Denene Mulay Koch and Jeremy Koch
Kalamazoo Singers, Thomas Kasdorf, Director
Kalamazoo Children’s Chorus, Fred Sang, Director
Raymond Harvey, Conductor


Two by Seuss

Sunday, November 2, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
Chenery Auditorium
with Maria Jette and Annie Kahane
Music by Rob Kapilow
Barry Ross, Conductor


Cirque de la Symphonie

Saturday, November 8, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Miller Auditorium
Scott Terrell, Conductor


Anthony Ross Returns

Friday, November 21, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Miller Auditorium
Anthony Ross, Cello
Raymond Harvey, Conductor

Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)

Rachmaninoff Symphony in D Minor (Youth)

Dvorak Cello Concerto


The World of…Rachmaninoff

Sunday, December 7, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
Light Fine Arts Center
David Peshlakai, Cello
Raymond Harvey, Conductor


Concertmaster Showcase

Saturday, January 17, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Miller Auditorium
Diana Cohen, violin
Raymond Harvey, Conductor

Kenji Bunch World Premiere
Commissioned to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth by the Michigan Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Committee and the KSO

Ives        Symphony No. 3 (Camp Meeting)

Mendelssohn    Violin Concerto

Sibelius      Symphony No. 5


Winter Evening

Friday, February 6, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 7, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Epic Theatre

Webern Langsamer Satz

Bozza Sonatine for Brass Quintet

Schumann Piano Quintet ( Raymond Harvey, Piano)


Valentine Hearts

Saturday, February 14, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Chenery Auditorium
Kathy Wagner, Vocalist
John Varineau, Conductor


Marimba Magic

Friday, February 27, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Miller Auditorium
Makoto Nakura, Marimba
Steven Smith, Guest Conductor

Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music

Pierre Jalbert Marimba Concerto

Schumann Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish)


Mole Music

March 14, 2009, 10:00 a.m.
Epic Center


Orchestra from Planet X

March 22, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Chenery Auditorium
with Magic Circle Mime Co.
Barry Ross, Conductor


Beethoven’s Ninth

Saturday, March 28, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Miller Auditorium

Susan B. Anthony, Soprano
Melissa Parks, Alto
Russell Thomas, Tenor
Anton Belov, Bass
Western Michigan University Grand Chorus, James Bass, Director
Raymond Harvey, Conductor

Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3

Rachmaninoff Cherubic Hymn and Lord’s Prayer (Op. 31)

Rachmaninoff Glory to the Mother of God (Op. 37)

Beethoven Symphony No. 9


The World of…Villa-Lobos

Sunday, April 5, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Light Fine Arts Center
Raymond Harvey, Conductor


Terrence Wilson

Saturday, April 18, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Miller Auditorium
Terrence Wilson, Piano
Raymond Harvey, Conductor

Michael Torke Javelin

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3

Strauss Don Juan

Rossini William Tell Overture


Spring Evening

Friday, April 24, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Epic Theatre

Mark Guthrie Vision for Percussion

Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik for Winds No. 2

Vaughan Williams String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor