Theatrical Roots, November 23, 2024, Ford Hall, Ithaca College

Aaron Burgess, Music Director
Reuben Foley, Assistant Conductor​

• Gioachino Rossini: Overture to Semiramide

• Aram Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504 "Prague"

Music of Our Time, May 11, 2024, Ford Hall, Ithaca College

Aaron Burgess, Music Director
Reuben Foley, Assistant Conductor

• Catherine Likhuta: Through Healers' Eyes (2022)

• Aaron Copland: Down a Country Lane, conducted by Reuben Foley

• Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

Fate, Love, and Hope, December 10, 2023, Lansing Middle School

Aaron Burgess, Music Director
Reuben Foley, Assistant Conductor

• Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino

• Gustav Holst: St. Paul's Suite, Op. 29, conducted by Reuben Foley

• Gustav Mahler: Um Mitternacht, movement 4 from Rükert-Lieder
  Tamara Acosta, soprano

• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy-Overture

Carmina Burana, May 6, 2023, Ford Hall, Ithaca College

Aaron Burgess, Music Director
Reuben Foley, Assistant Conductor
With the Ithaca High School Chorale, directed by Kristin Zaryski

Ithaca Community Orchestra

• Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

Ithaca High School Chorale

• Nathaniel Finke: “Compré Pocas Copas”

• Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley: “Pure Imagination,” arranged by Ben Bram and Tehillah Alphonso

• Reena Esmail: “TaReKiTa”

Ithaca Community Orchestra and Ithaca High School Chorale

• Carl Orff: Carmina Burana, Selections
  Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna, Fortune Plango Vulnera
  Primo Vere: Veris Leta Facies, Omnia Sol Temperat*, Ecce Gratum
  Uf dem Anger: Tanz, Were Diu Werlt Alle Min
  In Taberna: Estuans Interius*, Ego Sum Abbas
  Cour D'Amours: Amor Volat Undique**, Stetit Puella**, In Trutina**,  Dulcissime**
  Blanziflor et Helena: Ave Formosissima
  Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna
  Anthony Nasto, baritone
  Olivia Brice, soprano

 
Best of the Best, December 11, 2022, Lansing Middle School

Aaron Burgess, Music Director
Reuben Foley, Assistant Conductor

• Emily Mayer: Faust Overture, conducted by Reuben Foley

• Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 103 ("The Drumroll")

• Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
   

Homage, April 30, 2022, Hangar Theatre

Aaron Burgess, Music Director

• Franz Schubert: Little Symphony for Winds (4 movements)

• Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Overture in C Major

• Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, Prélude, Forlane, Menuet, Rigaudon

• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 “Reformation”

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Winter Concert, December 8, 2021, First Congregational Church

Aaron Burgess, Music Director

• Maurer: 12 Kleine Stüucke (movements 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12)
  Performed by the ICO brass ensemble

• Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (3 movements)
  Performed by the ICO string ensemble

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (4 movements)
  Performed by the Ithaca Community Orchestra
   

Classical Meets Jazz, December 14, 2019, Lansing Middle School

Madeline Schatz-Harris, Music Director
Aaron Burgess, Assistant Conductor

• Leonard Bernstein: Selections from West Side Story, conducted by Aaron Burgess

• Henry Wolking: Powell Canyons (East Coast Premiere)
       The Dirty Devil
       Dark Canyon
       White Canyon
       Featuring the Paul Merrill Quartet:
       Paul Merrill, trumpet; Dave Solazzo, piano; Joey Arcuri, bass; Tom Killian, drums

• George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
  Andrea Merrill, pianist

Music Inspired by Nature, April 27, 2019, Hangar Theatre

Madeline Schatz-Harris, Music Director
Aaron Burgess, Assistant Conductor

• Antonio Vivaldi: La Primavera (Spring), from The Four Seasons
  Sophia Werner, violin

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, "Pastorale", movement 1

• Bedřich Smetana: Má Vlast (Vltava): Die Moldau, conducted by Aaron Burgess

• Henri Wieniawski: Polonaise Brillante
  Sophia Werner, violin

• Gioacchino Rossini: William Tell Overture

 
Beethoven and His Influences, December 1, 2018, Lansing Middle School

Madeline Schatz-Harris, Music Director
Aaron Burgess, Assistant Conductor

• Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 94 (The Surprise Symphony), movements 1 and 2, conducted by Aaron Burgess

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 3

Romantically Inclined: Music from the Heart, May 5, 2018, Hangar Theater

Madeline Schatz-Harris, Music Director
Aaron Burgess, Assistant Conductor

• Richard Wagner: Overture from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, conducted by Aaron Burgess

• Camille Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
  Miranda Werner, violin

• Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor
  Owen Cummings, cello

• Alexandra Kemp: Fragments (world premier)

• P. Tchaikovsky: Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin
  Tamara Acosta, soprano

Fall Concert, November 18, 2017, Hangar Theater

Madeline Schatz-Harris, Music Director
Aaron Burgess, Assistant Conductor
In collaboration with the Opus Ithaca School of Music

• Aaron Copland: Fanfare for Common Man

• Niccolò Paganini: Moses Variations for Solo Cello and Strings
  Noam Ginsparg, violoncello

• Edward Elgar: Nimrod from Enigma Variations

• Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, conducted by Aaron Burgess

• INTERMISSION: With entertainment by students of Opus Ithaca

• Max Bruch: Violin Concerto in G Minor (3rd movement)
  Maya Johnson, violin

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony #5, movements 3 and 4

Spring Concert, April 22, 2017, Hangar Theater

James Mick, director
Brian Diller, assistant conductor

• P. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Ballet Suite, Op. 20a, movements 1 and 2, conducted by Brian Diller

• Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, Op. 11, movement 1
  Dave Unland, tuba soloist

• Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite

• Antonín Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 "New World", movement 4, conducted by Madeline Schatz-Harris

 

Collaboration with the Ageless Jazz Band:
Nick Pauldine, director
Josh Oxford, orchestral arrangements

• Cole Porter: Easy to Love
  Performed by the Ageless Jazz Band

• Ennio Morricone: Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso
  Nikola Tomić, trumpet soloist

• Antonio Carlos Jobim: Meditation

• Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby

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Winter Concert, December 10, 2016, Hangar Theater

James Mick, director
Brian Diller, assistant conductor

• Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, movement 1, conducted by Brian Diller

• Oxford: Concerto for Electric Guitar
  Michael Caporizzo, soloist

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, movement 2

• Stravinsky: Berceuse and Finale from The Firebird

 
Overtures and Opera, May 14, 2016, Hangar Theater

James Mick, director
Travis Carpenter, assistant conductor

Collaboration with Opera Ithaca

• Beethoven: Egmont Overture

• Hérold: Overture to Zampa, conducted by Travis Carpenter

• Verdi: Overture to Nabucco

• Mozart: "Là ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni
  Kate Clemons* and Nathan Haltiwanger* (Richard Montgomery, piano)

• J. Strauss, Jr.: "Csárdás" from Die Fledermaus
  Lynn Craver (Richard Montgomery, piano)

• Offenbach: "Barcarolle" from Tales of Hoffmann
  Kate Clemons* and Ryan Kennedy* (Richard Montgomery, piano)

• Mozart: "O, wie will ich triumphieren" from Abduction from the Seraglio
  Zachary James (Richard Montgomery, piano)

• Puccini: "Vissi d'arte" from Tosca
  Tamara Acosta (orchestral accompaniment)

• J. Strauss, Jr.: "Champagne Song" from Die Fledermaus
  Zachary James, Lynn Craver, Tamara Acosta, Ryan Kennedy*, Kate Clemons*, Nathan Haltiwanger*, Stephen Tzianabos*, and Sarah Welden* (orchestral accompaniment)

• Wagner: Overture to Rienzi

* Opera Ithaca Young Apprentice
 

Orchestral Soundscapes, December 5, 2015, Hangar Theater

James Mick, director
Travis Carpenter, assistant conductor

• Bizet: L'Arlesienne, Suite No. 2, conducted by Travis Carpenter
  Pastorale
  Intermezzo
  Farandole

• Josh Oxford: Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra
  Emily Ickes, marimba

• Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre, Op. 40, conducted by Travis Carpenter
  Samanta Hecht, violin 

• Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36

Much Ado about Shakespeare, May 2, 2015, Hangar Theater

James Mick, director
Travis Carpenter, assistant conductor

• Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance No. 4, conducted by Travis Carpenter

• Bach: Komm Süsser Tod (arr. Stokowski), conducted by Travis Carpenter

• Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico, Op. 3, Concerto No. 11 in D minor (RV 565)

• Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Montagues and Capulets (Dance of the Knights)
  Suite No. 2, Movement 1, Op. 64

• Othello, Act 4, Ave MariaVerdi:
  Ivy Walz, mezzo soprano

• Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, movement 4, March to the Scaffold

The concert featured performances by members of the Ithaca Shakespeare Company (ISC) of scenes from Shakespeare's plays that inspired several pieces on the program. ISC Artistic Director Stephen Ponton has generously devoted time and effort to this collaboration with the orchestra.    
 

Places of Inspiration, November 22, 2014, First Baptist Church

James Mick, director
Travis Carpenter, assistant conductor

• Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, conducted by Travis Carpenter

• Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, I. Prelúdio

• George Gershwin: An American in Paris, arranged by John Whitney

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, KV. 313 (285c)
  Elizabeth Shuhan, flute

• Antonín Dvorák: Symphony No. 9, "New World", movement 1

 

Postcard from France, May 3, 2014, First Baptist Church

James Mick, director
Travis Carpenter, assistant conductor

• Berlioz: Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust (also known as Rákóczy March) 

• Bizet: Carmen, Suite #1
  Prelude
  Aragonaise
  Intermezzo
  Les Toréadors
  Suite #2
  Habanera
  Chanson du Toréador
  Danse Bohème

• Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, conducted by Travis Carpenter

• Josh Oxford: Concertino di camera pour basse électrique et cordes
  Sam Shuhan, electric bass

• Saint-Saëns: Symphony #3 "Organ Symphony", Finale
  Erik Kibelsbeck, organ

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Classical Masters, November 23, 2013, First Baptist Church

James Mick, director
Travis Carpenter, assistant conductor

• Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni

• Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture, conducted by Travis Carpenter

• Stamitz: String Symphony in A

• Dittersdorf: Sinfonia Concertante in D
  Cassandra Sulbarán, viola
  Heather Miller Lardin, bass

• Schubert: Symphony #9 "The Great," first movement

    

Spring Concert, April 27, 2013, First Baptist Church

Diana Geiger, music director
James Mick, assistant conductor

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

• Max Buckholtz: Wails for Whales

• Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor
  Zachary Sweet, soloist

A collaboration with the Museum of the Earth, with opening remarks by Dr. Warren Allmon,
director of the Paleontological Research Institution.
 

Winter Concert, December 8, 2012, First Baptist Church

Diana Geiger, music director
James Mick, assistant conductor

• Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

• Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3, K. 447
  Alex Shuhan, French Horn

• Vaughan Williams: An English Folk Song Suite, conducted by James Mick

• Saint-Saëns: Danse Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah

    

America! May 5, 2012, First Baptist Church

Diana Geiger, music director
Leah Kaller, assistant conductor

• Morton Gould: American Suite

• Jay Ungar: “Ashokan Farewell”
  With readings by Ken Campbell of WSKG from Dear Friend Amelia

• Antonin Dvořák: Suite in A Major (American Suite), Op. 98a

• Sally Lamb McCune: Fast Freight Dream (world premiere)

• Aaron Copland: Saturday Night Waltz and Hoedown from Rodeo

• Irving Berlin: Symphonic Portrait

 

The Music of Dances, December 10, 2011, First Baptist Church

Diana Geiger, music director
Leah Kaller, assistant conductor

• Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite 1

• Erik Satie: Gymnopédie No. 2

• Camille Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 61, mvt. 3

• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
  Aaron Buck, violin

• Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, Nos. 6, 7, and 8

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The Pictures Project, May 14, 2011, First Baptist Church

Cayenna Ponchione, music director
Diana Geiger, assistant conductor

• Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Cellos in G Minor, RV 531
  Claude Lamothe and Leah Kaller, soloists

• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
  Christopher Morgan Loy, organist

• Carly Rhodes: Anima Magnificat*

• Max Shuhan: Sand Girl*

• Kay Adams: Havana II*

• Christopher Morgan Loy: Imagining a Distant World*

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Fall Concert, December 11, 2010, First Baptist Church

Cayenna Ponchione, music director
Diana Geiger, assistant conductor

• Edward Elgar: Serenade in E for Strings, Selections

• Johannes Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Selections

• Mer Boel: Celebration of the Deep, a concerto featuring the ICO horn section

• Camille Saint-Saens: Sonata for Bassoon and Piano, arranged for chamber orchestra by Cayenna Ponchione
  David Ressig, bassoonist

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Sound of Words, May 9, 2010, St. Paul’s Methodist Church

Cayenna Ponchione, music director
Diana Geiger, assistant conductor
Collaboration with Gerald Wolfe and the Ithaca Community Chorus

• Felix Mendelssohn: Song Without Words, Nos. 1, 3, arranged by Doran Brandy and Cayenna Ponchione

• Zachary Wadsworth: Green Knolls*
  Set to a poem by Amy Li, winner of the ICO Ithaca High School Poetry Competition
  Judith Kellock, vocalist

• Tom Schneller: Afterlife*
  Set to a poem by Jay Leeming
  Judith Kellock, vocalist

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Choral Fantasy
  With Blaise Bryski, pianist, and the Ithaca Community Chorus

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Winter Concert, December 12, 2009

Cayenna Ponchione, music director
Diana Geiger, assistant conductor

• George Frideric Handel: Water Music, movements. I, IV, VI, arranged by Hamilton Harty

• Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, movements I, III

• Joseph Haydn: Piano Concerto in D, movements, I, II, III
  Graeme Bailey, pianist

• Maurice Ravel: Paveane pour un infant defunte

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Spring Concert, May 3, 2009, First Baptist Church

Cayenna Ponchione, music director
Diana Geiger, assistant conductor
Collaboration with the Family Reading Partnership and Tompkins County Library​

• Charles Gounod: Petite Symphonie in Bb for Wind Instruments, Selections

• “The Philharmonic Gets Dressed,” read by Graeme Bailey

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Double Violin Concerto and Violin Concerto in E major
   “Fiddler’s Crabs,” a story written and narrated by Raya Then
  Judy Hyman and Laurie Hart, soloists

• Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  Judy Hyman and Laurie Hart, soloists

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Fall Concert, December 7, 2008, First Baptist Church

Cayenna Ponchione, music director
Bryan Lilley, guest conductor

• Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)

• Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F
  Graeme Bailey, soloist

• Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 6 (“Little C Major”)

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Music from the Stage, May 4, 2008, First Congregational Church

Cayenna Ponchione, music director
Leah Kaller, guest conductor
Loralyn Light, vocalist

• Franz Schubert: Overture to Rosamunde

• Cole Porter Salute: “The Wizard of Oz,” “My Fair Lady”

• Giuseppi Verdi: Overture to Nabucco

• Selection of Vocal Music:
  “All of Me”
  “They Can’t Take That Away from Me”
  “Love is Here to Stay”
  “The Girl from Ipanema”​​

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Holiday Suites and Musical Treats, December 9, 2007, First Congregational Church

Cayenna Ponchione, music director

• Gioachino Rossini: Barber of Seville Overture

• Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite, 1, 2, 5, 6

• Georges Bizet: Carmen Suite, Selections, edited by Tom Kennedy

• Martin Blessinger, Ithaca College composer: Piano Concerto, No. 1, movement III
  Joseph Pepper, soloist

• Gustav Holst: Christmas Day, with First Congregational Church Choir

• Holiday sing-a-long

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Mozart and Mayflowers, May 6, 2007, First Congregational Church

Cayenne Ponchione, music director
Joshua Horsch, assistant conductor
In cooperation with Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program

• Mer Boel: Ann 

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto in G Major, movement I
  William Cowdery, pianist

• Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1, movement I

• Aaron Copland: Down a Country Lane

• Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5

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Little Delights and Cake Bites, December 1, 2007, First Congregational Church

Cayenna Ponchione: music director
Joshua Horsch, assistant conductor
Renee Senne, pastry chef caterer 

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Dubinushka

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik

• Antonio Vivaldi: Winter from The Four Seasons
  Barbara Lundy, soloist

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2, movement I

• Holiday sing-a-long

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Spring Concert, May 19, 2006, First Baptist Church

Cayenna Ponchione, music director

• Gioachino Rossini: Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri

• Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in Re Maggoior for string orchestra and guitar, arranged by D. Visser
  Jennie Herreid, marimba

• Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 35 in Bb Major

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Fall Concert, December 18, 2005, Women’s Community Building

Cayenna Ponchione, conductor

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony in D Major

• Antonin Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, I, II

• Holiday selections

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Fall 2001 – Spring 2005

During this time, John Webber was music director and Annette Vogels was assistant music director and director of chamber music. Zach Levi was music director in spring 2005.

 

*Works commissioned by the Ithaca Community Orchestra.