
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”