2022-23 Season

MainStage 1: Beginnings and Endings

October 20-23, 2022
Ben Simon, Music Director

Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring

Samuel Barber
Knoxville Summer of 1915
featuring Ann Moss, soprano soloist

Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring
arr. for chamber orchestra (2011) by the SFCO’s
Incredible Shrinking Orchestra Project

MainStage 2: Greetings & Farewell

Dec 30, 2022- Jan 01, 2023
Ben Simon, Music Director

Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8, D. 759 (“Unfinished”)

PDQ Bach
Unbegun Symphony

Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Amaryn Olmeda, violin soloist

Franz Josef Haydn
Symphony No. 45 in F# minor (“Farewell”)


MainStage 3: Quartets & Quintets

February 24-26, 2023

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Duo No. 1 in G Major, K 423

Amy Beach
Theme and Variations for flute and string quartet

Jonathan Bingham
Pareidolia
World Premiere for String Quartet commissioned
by the SFCO with NEA and
Emerging Black Composers Project

Edmund Rubbra
Suite from “The Buddha” arr. Peter Lemberg

Jean Francaix
Sérénade for Small Orchestra

MainStage 4: Resilience

May 26-28, 2023
Jory Fankuchen, Conductor

William Grant Still
Danzas de Panama for String Orchestra

Frank Martin
Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments,
Timpani, Percussion and String Orchestra

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 “Italian”