2019/20...our 67th Season

Season Opening Concert -- Sunday, October 20, 2019 - 4:00 p.m. 

Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church

7530 W 38th Ave, Wheat Ridge, CO

 Kara Guggenmos, soprano 

Our Season Premiere opens with Beethoven's "Leonore Overture No. 3" -- a grand orchestral work and concert hall favorite. JSO guest artist Kara Guggenmos, adds lyrical brilliance as soloist in Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915." An exhilarating performance of Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony anchors the program and adds a masterwork of the genre to our season opening.  

Holiday Concert -- Sunday, December 08, 2019 - 3:00 p.m. 

Green Center, Colorado School of Mines

924 Sixteenth St, Golden, CO  

 Christie Conover, soprano 

Symphony No. 2 (Romantic)

Festivities

Howard Hanson

Peter Boyer

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...and holiday music, seasonal favorites -- an annual tradition!

A Christmastime tradition and audience highlight continues with our Holiday Concert features. JSO musicians share the stage with vocalists Christie Conover and James Baumgardner in December for our second concert and return to the newly-designed Green Center at Colorado School of Mines. Howard Hanson's musical homage to the 19th-century Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") is programmed alongside Peter Boyer's bold and brassy "Festivities."

 James Baumgardner, tenor 

 Don Hilsberg, harp 

Carl Nielsen's "Helios Overture" contributes an elegant showpiece to the repertoire list and offers the audience a musical setting of Greek god Helios and his chariot of the sun and sky. As a tribute to the composer, JSO programs two works by William Grant Still during Black History Month, annually observed in February. Known as "the Dean" of African-American composers, William Grant Still was also a major cultural contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. JSO peforms Still's Second Symphony and includes artist Don Hilsberg as featured soloist in "Ennanga" Harp Concerto. Alberto Ginastera, often inspired by his Argentine landscape and folk-culture, wrote "Estancia" to idealize gaucho life on grassy plains. 

William Grant Still

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Carl Nielsen

Alberto Ginastera

Symphony No. 2 (Song of a New Race)

"Ennanga" Harp Concerto

Helios Overture

Estancia: Ballet Suite

 2020 JSO Young Artist 

 Daniel Gostein 

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

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Eric Sammut

Symphony No. 5 in E Minor

"Sugaria" Concerto for Marimba

...twelve finalists...one grand-prize performance...Each year JSO invites to our stage sensational, rising talent for a debut with our ensemble. Results of JSO*YAC determine our repertoire, which is added to a concert already robust with a pinnacle of romantic-era symphonies. The 2020 Young Artists Competition winner, Daniel Gostein, adds his prize-winning concerto performance to our winter program in a line-up paired with Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.    

 dir. Christine Gaudreau 

Evergreen

 Women's 

  Chorale  

Danzon No. 2

Rapsodie espagnole

The Planets, Suite for Large Orchestra

Arturo Marquez

Maurice Ravel

Gustav Holst

...Neptune the Mystic, Jupiter the Bringer of Jollity... JSO collaborates with the Evergreen Women's Chorale to bring you Holst's "The Planets" -- a heavenly seven-movement work for extended orchestra. Also programmed is one of Maurice Ravel's first major works, "Rapsodie espagnole," which draws dance-like inspiration from the French composer's fascination with Spain. "Danzon No. 2" keeps the symphony dancing with Mexican composer Arturo Marquez' tribute to Afro-Cuban culture and urban rhythms. 

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