50% off (Sale price $15.00, Reg. Price $30.00) :: General admission Concerts are Sunday beginning at 3 p.m. A pre-concert discussion with WBJCs Jonathan Palevsky takes place 45 minutes before every performance. Students receive free admission. Click to view the full program notes for each performance.2018–2019 Season Sunday, September 30, 2018: The season opener features Netanel Draiblate, the first of four concertmaster candidates, performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. Before it, Jonathan Leshnoff performs Four Dances and Beethovens Symphony No. 2. Sunday, November 18, 2018: Jonathan Palevsky livens this bass-focused concert with his annotated narration. Bass player William McGregor, the 18-year-old 2017 Stulberg International String Competition Gold Medalist, brings his virtuosity to the 18th-century concerto by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf and to Moses Variations by Niccolò Paganini. Sunday, February 10, 2019: Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring opens this concert by playing music written for Martha Grahams ballet. Karen Johnson, the second concertmaster candidate, performs Mozart’s Violin Concerto no.5, the so-called Turkish concerto. Sunday, March 24, 2019: Denmark, Austria, and Bohemia are represented in this concert featuring concertmaster candidate Audrey Wright taking Mozart’s third concerto to new heights. Carl Nielsen’s early work and the Eastern European melodies of Antonin Dvořák’s Serenade round out the program. Sunday, May 5, 2019: BCOs final concertmaster candidate Peter Sirotin masterfully takes on Beethovens renowned Violin Concerto. This program includes Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, Gioachino Rossinis Overture to The Barber of Seville, and Sergei Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony.
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