Rockford Symphony Orchestra Steven Larsen, Music Director October 23, 2021 7:30 p.m.
The Last Night of the Proms Christopher Brady, Master of Ceremonies Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Wolfgang Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C Minor, K. 551 “Jupiter” IV. Molto allegro
Richard Wagner
Finale to Act III of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Nicolai Janitsky, baritone
Igor Stravinsky Sergei Prokofiev Dmitri Shostakovich
Berceuse and Finale from The Firebird (1919 version) Finale of Alexander Nevsky (”Alexander’s Entry into Pskov”) Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 IV. Allegro non troppo
—INTERMISSION— Stig Anderson, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, arr. Gary Fry
Mamma Mia Medley Karen Manley Kahler, vocals
W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
“As Someday It May Happen” (I’ve got a little list) from The Mikado
John Williams
Selections from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone “Nimbus 2000” “Harry’s Wonderful World”
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, arr. Bruce Healey Traditional, arr. Percy Grainger Thomas Arne, arr. Malcolm Sargent
“Mary Poppins” Medley Irish Tune from Country Derry (“O Danny Boy”) “Rule, Britannia”
Gustav Holst
“Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity” from The Planets, Op. 32
Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D, Op. 39
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