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Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra and Master Chorale | Antelope Valley College Concert Choir

David Newby, Artistic Director

The Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra and Master Chorale and the Antelope Valley College Concert Choir celebrate the
Antelope Valley Master Chorale’s 25th Anniversary with four great programs.

Autumn Romance Classical Christmas Stars of Tomorrow Ode to Joy

October 17, 2015 | 8 pm December 12, 2015 | 8 pm March 26, 2016 | 8 pm May 21, 2016 | 8 pm
Frederic Chopin, Piano Concerto Johann Sebastian Bach, Bac h Competition Winners
No. 1 in E Minor, Op.11 Cantata 147, “Herz und Mund Beethoven, Symphony No. 9
und Tat und Leben” Recital | 7 pm in D Minor, Op. 123
Leah Kang, piano Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hodie Con certo Competition Winners, Antelope Valley
Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 With its timeless chorus “Jesu, Joy of Symphony Orchestra
in B Minor, Op. 74 (“Pathètique”) Man’s Desiring,” Bach’s Advent cantata TBA Antelope Valley
Former Antelope Valley College offers a beautiful start to the holiday Winners of the AVSOMC’s 2016 Master Chorale
music instructor Leah Kang performs season. Vaughan Williams’s final work Gail Newby Concerto Competition Antelope Valley College
Chopin’s first piano concerto, which for chorus and orchestra, Hodie join the orchestra. Concert Choir
the composer premiered as a farewell (“This Day”), is a masterwork of Bach Competition winners
to his native Poland. Tchaikovsky sonority and color. perform a prelude recital at Beethoven’s inclusion of
acknowledged a “private and personal” 7 pm. choir in his final symphony
program for his Sixth Symphony and helped establish it as a unique
considered it his greatest composition. Tickets for each performance: masterwork. Based on Friederich
Premiered only nine days before his $20 | Senior, Military, AVC Staff $18 | Youth (Under 18), AVC Students $10 Schiller’s An die Freude, the
death, the work has been a cornerstone symphony is a universal
of symphonic repertoire ever since. The AVSOMC concert season is sponsored in part by Los Angeles County Supervisor acclamation of brotherhood.
Michael D. Antonovich