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We perform hundreds of concerts each year and choosing which to attend can sometimes be difficult. So we’ve assembled a comprehensive selection of music and video clips to help you decide. Many of the classical concert videos feature Music Director Osmo Vänskä and Orchestra musicians sharing their personal connections to the music. They’ll provide you with concert highlights and help you understand what makes each performance unique.

The 2008-09 season concerts below are listed in date order. Enjoy!



Salute to America!
July 5

  • Audio: TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
  • Audio: SOUSA Foshay Tower Washington Memorial March
  • Audio: COPLAND Lincoln Portrait
  • Audio: COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man

Coffee Concert: Chamber Music with Osmo
July 17

  • Audio: BRUCH Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano

A Night in Vienna
July 17

  • Audio: MOZART Horn Concerto No. 4
  • Audio: MOZART Clarinet Concerto
  • Audio: J. STRAUSS, Jr. Thunder and Lightning Polka
  • Audio: J. STRAUSS, Jr. On the Beautiful Blue Danube

Peter and the Wolf
July 18

  • Audio: PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf 4
  • Audio: PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf 3
  • Audio: PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf 2
  • Audio: PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf 1

Beethoven’s Fifth
July 18

  • Audio: BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1
  • Audio: BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5

“1964” The Tribute
July 19

  • Audio: 1964 "Yesterday"
  • Audio: 1964 "Yellow Submarine"
  • Audio: 1964 "Twist and Shout"
  • Audio: 1964 "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
  • Audio: 1964 "I Saw Her Standing There"

Irvin Mayfield Quintet
July 23

  • Audio: MONK Round Midnight
  • Audio: GERSHWIN An American in Paris
  • Audio: ELLINGTON Black, Brown and Beige

Rhapsody in Blue
July 24

  • Audio: SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3, Organ
  • Audio: GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
  • Audio: DUKAS The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
July 25

  • Video: Chad Hoopes on CBS's The Early Show, June 2, 2008
  • Video: Chad Hoopes on CBS's The Early Show, May 1, 2009
  • Audio: TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1

Tom and Dick
The Smothers Brothers Show

July 26

  • Video: SMOTHERS BROTHERS "Jimmy Crack Corn"
  • Video: SMOTHERS BROTHERS "American Boys"
  • Audio: THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS "Tom Dooley"
  • Audio: THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore"

Chamber Music with Andrew
July 26

  • Audio: STRAVINSKY Suite Italienne, for Violin and Piano
  • Audio: FAURÉ Piano Quintet No. 2

The 5 Browns
July 30

  • Audio: SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals
  • Audio: RACHMANINOFF Valse and Romance
  • Audio: HAGAR Aunt Hagar's Blues
  • Audio: DEBUSSY Clair de Lune

Midsummer Mendelssohn
July 31

  • Audio: MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, Italian
  • Audio: MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Audio: MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream

Opera Finale: Aida
August 1

  • Audio: VERDI Aida

Ramsey Lewis Trio
August 13

  • Audio: RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO "Wade in the Water"
  • Audio: RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO "Blues for the Night Owl"

Russian Spectacular: Vänskä, Hough and Sleeping Beauty
September 24, 25, 26

  • Audio: TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty - Act 1, Valse
  • Audio: TCHAIKOVSKY Concert Fantasia: Quasi rondo - Andante mosso

Russian Spectacular: Hough Plays Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
October 2, 3

  • Audio: TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1: Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso
  • Audio: BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin: Introduction

Russian Spectacular: Tchaikovsky's Mighty Fourth
October 8, 9, 10

  • Audio: TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4: Finale
  • Audio: TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4: Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima
  • Audio: KHACHATURIAN Selections from Spartacus:
    Scene and Dance with Crotalums

Ross, Schumann and Shostakovich Five
October 15, 16

  • Audio: SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5: Allegretto
  • Audio: SCHUMANN Cello Concerto

Percussion Spectacular!
October 21, 22

  • Audio: WOMA Gyil Jumbie Concerto
  • Audio: HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis

Broadway Rocks!
October 23

  • Audio: RENT SOUNDTRACK "Seasons of Love"
  • Audio: MAMMA MIA SOUNDTRACK "Dancing Queen"
  • Audio: JERSEY BOYS SOUNDTRACK "Oh What a Night"
  • Audio: HAIRSPRAY SOUNDTRACK "Mama I'm a Big Girl Now"

Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
October 29, 30

  • Audio: BEETHOVEN Allegro ma non troppo, from Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
  • Audio: BEETHOVEN Allegretto, from Symphony No. 6, Pastoral

Vänskä, Hara and Rosenkavalier
November 5, 6, 7

  • Audio: STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier: Con moto agitato
  • Audio: CRUSELL Clarinet Concerto No. 2: Rondo

Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony
November 12, 13

  • Audio: SIBELIUS Pelleas and Melisande: At the Castle Gate
  • Audio: MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5,  Reformation: Andante

Kathy Mattea
November 14

  • Audio: KATHY MATTEA "The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore"
  • Audio: KATHY MATTEA "Red Winged Blackbird"
  • Audio: KATHY MATTEA "Coming of the Roads"

An Afternoon With Kathy Mattea
November 15

  • Audio: KATHY MATTEA "Where've You Been"
  • Audio: KATHY MATTEA "Walking Away a Winner"
  • Audio: KATHY MATTEA "Mary Did You Know"
  • Audio: KATHY MATTEA "Love at the Five and Dime"
  • Audio: KATHY MATTEA "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses"

American Salute
November 18, 19

  • Audio: COPLAND Lincoln Portrait, finale
  • Audio: COPLAND Hoedown

Hansel and Gretel: A Fairy Tale Thanksgiving
November 27, 28, 29

  • Audio: HUMPERDINCK Hansel and Gretel: Prelude to Act II
  • Audio: HUMPERDINCK Hansel and Gretel: Act III: Witches’ Waltz
  • Audio: HUMPERDINCK Hansel and Gretel: Act III, Scene 1: I Bring the Dews of Morning
  • Audio: HUMPERDINCK Hansel and Gretel: Act II:  Evening Prayer
  • Audio: HUMPERDINCK Hansel and Gretel: Act II, Scene 1

Hansel and Gretel
December 2, 3, 4

  • Audio: HUMPERDINCK Evening Prayer, from Hansel and Gretel

An Evening With Chris Botti
December 4, 5

  • Audio: CHRIS BOTTI "The Way You Look Tonight"
  • Audio: CHRIS BOTTI "The Very Thought of You"
  • Audio: CHRIS BOTTI "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"
  • Audio: CHRIS BOTTI "Gabriel's Oboe"

A Scandinavian Christmas
December 11, 12, 19

  • Audio: VOGLER Hosianna
  • Audio: SIBELIUS We Ask for Nothing Rich or Rare
  • Audio: SEFVE Tonttugen Jouluyö
  • Audio: KOTILAINEN The Sparrow at Christmas
  • Audio: HUMPERDINCK Evening Prayer
  • Audio: GRIEG Norwegian Dance No. 4
  • Audio: COTTRAU Santa Lucia

Jingle Bell Doc
December 19, 20

  • Audio: DOC SEVERINSEN "White Christmas"
  • Audio: DOC SEVERINSEN "Sleigh Ride"
  • Audio: DOC SEVERINSEN "Let it Snow"
  • Audio: DOC SEVERINSEN "Jingle Bells"

Sounds of Cinema: The Wizard of Oz
January 7, 15, 16 2010

  • Audio: The Wizard of Oz: Title Theme

Sounds of Cinema: Chaplin's Gold Rush
January 8, 10, 14 2010

  • Audio: CHAPLIN The Gold Rush

Sounds of Cinema: A Night At The Oscars
January 9, 17 2010

  • Audio: Gone with the Wind: Title Theme
  • Audio: Ben-Hur: Overture
  • Audio: An American in Paris: Title Theme

Celebrating Stravinsky: Pulcinella and The Firebird
January 21 2010

  • Audio: STRAVINSKY The Firebird: Variations on The Firebird
  • Audio: STRAVINSKY The Firebird: Conclusion
  • Audio: STRAVINSKY Pulcinella: Overture

Celebrating Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
January 22 2010

  • Audio: STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring:  Introduction
  • Audio: STRAVINSKY Jeu de cartes (A Game of Cards) : First Deal

Debussy’s La Mer
January 27, 28 2010

  • Audio: DEBUSSY From Dawn to Noon on the Sea, from La Mer
  • Audio: DEBUSSY Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea, from La Mer

Sounds of Cinema
January 28, 29 2010

  • Audio: STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
  • Audio: JOHN WILLIAMS Main theme from Star Wars
  • Audio: HANS ZIMMER Pirates of the Caribbean

Judy Garland in Concert
January 30, 31 2010

  • Audio: JUDY GARLAND "The Man That Got Away"
  • Audio: JUDY GARLAND "Stormy Weather"
  • Audio: JUDY GARLAND "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
  • Audio: JUDY GARLAND "Puttin on the Ritz"
  • Audio: JUDY GARLAND "Do it Again"

Mozart, Brahms and Skrowaczewski
February 4, 5, 6 2010

  • Audio: MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3: Adagio
  • Audio: BRAHMS Symphony No 3: Allegro con brio

Nadja, Piazzolla and Copland
February 11, 12 2010

  • Audio: COPLAND Symphony No. 3: Fanfare for the Common Man

John Pizzarelli
February 13 2010

  • Audio: JOHN PIZZARELLI "With a Song in My Heart"
  • Audio: JOHN PIZZARELLI "Our Love is Here to Stay"
  • Audio: JOHN PIZZARELLI "I Have Dreamed"

Beethoven, Chopin and Mozart
February 18, 19, 20 2010

  • Audio: BEETHOVEN Grosse Fuge: Allegro
  • Audio: CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 : Maestoso
  • Audio: MOZART Symphony No. 40: Allegro vivace

Finnish Voices: Vänskä Conducts Sibelius
February 24, 25, 26 2010

  • Audio: SIBELIUS Suite from Karelia: Ballade
  • Audio: SIBELIUS Kullervo:  Kullervo and His Sister
  • Audio: SIBELIUS Kullervo:  Kullervo and His Sister
  • Audio: SIBELIUS Kullervo:  Kullervo’s Death

Carnival of the Animals
March 10, 11, 12 2010

  • Audio: SAINT-SAËNS The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
  • Audio: SAINT-SAËNS The Elephant from Carnival of the Animals
  • Audio: RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Flight of the Bumblebee

Vivaldi and Piazzolla: A Celebration of Seasons
March 10, 11 2010

  • Audio: VIVALDI Spring, No. 1 from The Four Seasons

Rajaton
March 12 2010

  • Audio: RAJATON "We Walk in a Fog"
  • Audio: RAJATON "We are the Champions"
  • Audio: RAJATON "Un-Wishing Well"
  • Audio: RAJATON "Somebody to Love"
  • Audio: RAJATON "Killer Queen"
  • Audio: RAJATON "I Want You to Want Me"
  • Audio: RAJATON "Dobbin's Flowery Vale"
  • Audio: RAJATON "Butterfly"
  • Audio: RAJATON "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Mozart, Bach and Tchaikovsky
March 18, 19, 21 2010

  • Audio: MOZART Symphony No. 38, Prague: Adagio – Allegro
  • Audio: BACH Piano Concerto in D minor: Allegro
  • Audio: TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5: Andante - Allegro con anima

Preservation Hall Jazz Band
March 20 2010

  • Audio: PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND "When the Saints Go Marchin' In"
  • Audio: PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND "Tiger Rag"
  • Audio: PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND "St. Louis Blues"
  • Audio: PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND "Basin Street Blues"

Mozart and Prokofiev
March 26, 27 2010

  • Audio: MOZART Concerto for Flute and Harp: Andantino
  • Audio: PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5: Allegro marcato

Michael Cavanaugh Sings Billy Joel
April 9 2010

  • Audio: MICHAEL CAVANAUGH "Uptown Girl"
  • Audio: MICHAEL CAVANAUGH "The Stranger"
  • Audio: MICHAEL CAVANAUGH "She's Got a Way"
  • Audio: MICHAEL CAVANAUGH "Shameless"
  • Audio: MICHAEL CAVANAUGH "Movin' Out"
  • Audio: MICHAEL CAVANAUGH "An Innocent man"

Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique
April 15, 16, 17 2010

  • Audio: MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23: Allegro
  • Audio: BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique: Reveries – Passions

Duruflé Requiem: St. Olaf Sings
April 22, 23, 24 2010

  • Audio: STRAVINSKY Concerto in D: Vivace
  • Audio: DURUFLÉ Requiem: Introit

Vänskä Conducts Mahler
April 29, 30, May 1 2010

  • Audio: MAHLER Symphony No. 7: Adagio

The Four Seasons
May 5, 6 2010

  • Audio: VIVALDI Spring from The Four Seasons

Bernadette Peters
May 7, 8 2010

  • Audio: BERNADETTE PETERS "You'll Never Walk Alone"
  • Audio: BERNADETTE PETERS "There's Nothing Like a Dame"
  • Audio: BERNADETTE PETERS "If I Loved You"
  • Audio: BERNADETTE PETERS "Being Alive"
  • Audio: BERNADETTE PETERS "Anything You Can Do"

Wagner, Brahms and Haydn
May 13, 14, 15 2010

  • Audio: WAGNER Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music
  • Audio: BRAHMS Double Concerto: Vivace non troppo

Ravel and Strauss
May 20, 21, 22 2010

  • Audio: STRAUSS Don Juan: Excerpt
  • Audio: RAVEL Left Hand Piano Concerto: Allegro

Vänskä, Bartók and Stravinsky
May 27, 28, 29 2010

  • Audio: STRAVINSKY Petrushka: The Shrovetide Fair
  • Audio: BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2: Andante tranquillo

Manhattan Transfer
May 30 2010

  • Audio: MANHATTAN TRANSFER "Until I Meet You"
  • Audio: MANHATTAN TRANSFER "Tuxedo Junction"
  • Audio: MANHATTAN TRANSFER "Route 66"
  • Audio: MANHATTAN TRANSFER "Boy From New York City"
  • Audio: MANHATTAN TRANSFER "Birdland"

Season Finale: Beethoven's Emperor Concerto
June 3, 4, 5, 6 2010

  • Audio: BRUCKNER Symphony No. 7: Scherzo
  • Audio: BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor: Allegro
  • Audio: BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor:  Rondo

The Count Basie Orchestra
June 13 2010

  • Audio: THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA "One O'Clock Jump"
  • Audio: THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA "Blues Backstage"
  • Audio: THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA "April in Paris"
  • Audio: THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA "All of Me"

Patti LuPone in Concert
June 18 2010

  • Audio: PATTI LUPONE "You're the Top"
  • Audio: PATTI LUPONE "The Man I Love"
  • Audio: PATTI LUPONE "I Dreamed a Dream"
  • Audio: PATTI LUPONE "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"