CLAREMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

51^th Season, 2003-2004

Dr. James Fahringer, Music Director and Principal Conductor

Prof. Larry Lowder, Associate Conductor

Dr. Gary Iida, Associate Conductor

All concerts are held at Bridges Hall of Music (Fourth and College), Pomona College

Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 3:30 p.m.

Larry Lowder, Conductor

Carnival Overture by Antonin Dvorak

Suite No. 1 from Carmen by Georges Bizet

Symphony #1 in c minor by Johannes Brahms

Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 3:30 p.m.

Larry Lowder, Conductor

Maria Perez-Goodman, Piano Soloist

Overture to Rosamunde by Franz Schubert

Piano Concerto #3 in d minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Symphony #2 (“Romantic”) by Howard Hanson

Sunday, December 22, 2003, at 3:30 p.m.

Annual community sing of “The Messiah” by Georg Frederich Handel

Gina Shaw, Conductor

Holly Shaw Price, soprano

Becky Dornon, alto

Cahen Taylor, tenor

Jim Brown, bass

Saturday, January 24, 2004, 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Concert, conducted by Gary Iida and Larry Lowder

Featuring Romantic era concertos for clarinet and violin

Performed by members of the CYSO:

Chester Howard, clarinet (LA County HS of the Arts)

Oliver Fu, violin (11^th grade)

Saturday, January 24, 2004, 7:30 p.m.

Claremont Youth Symphony Winter Concert

Conducted by Bill Bohannan and Ray Walden

Vivaldi Violin Concerto, 3rd mvt., Abraham Kim, 9^th grade

Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 3:30 p.m.

James Fahringer, Conductor

Spectrum:  Darryl Grant, Freddie House,

David Prescott, Cushney Roberts

Orchestral music from Leonard Bernstein and Isaac Hayes,

and classic songs in the Motown and Rhythm and Blues traditions

Sunday, April 25, 2004, at 3:30 p.m. in Garrison Theater

James Fahringer, Conductor

Marjorie Cofer Marth, Violin Soloist

Phaeton by Camille Saint-Saens

Violin Concerto No. 3 in b minor by Camille Saint-Saens

Symphony #2 by Jean Sibelius

Saturday, May 22, 2004, 7:30 p.m.

Claremont Youth Symphony Spring Concert

Bill Bohannan, Ray Walden and James Fahringer

Violin Concerto in E by Johann Sebastian Bach

Tommy Tedesco, 11^th grade

Sunday, June 6, 2004, at 3:30 p.m.

James Fahringer, Conductor

Genevieve McDowell, soprano

Overture to Oberon by Carl Maria von Weber

Songs and arias including works by

Nicolai, Richard Strauss, and Wagner

Capriccio Espagnol by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Monday, July 13, 2004

Monday night concert in Memorial

Norton Bandshell, Indian Hill Blvd. and 8^th Street, Claremont