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DANCE
MIX
DANCE MIX TOPEKA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
THE 2O21-2O22 SEASON
TOPEKA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
DANCE
THE 2O21-2O22 SEASON
ARTURO MARQUEZ RACHEL LEE PRIDAY
Danzon No. 2 VIOLIN
MIX
PABLO SARASATE
Carmen Fantasy
WITH RACHEL LEE PRIDAY, VIOLIN
PABLO SARASATE
Zigeunerweisen
WITH RACHEL LEE PRIDAY, VIOLIN
IGOR STRAVINSKY
WE’RE BACK IN WHITE CONCERT HALL AND YOUR
TOPEKA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IS READY TO DANCE! Firebird (1945)
After an unusual year of limited audiences, smaller orchestras, and
KYLE WILEY PICKETT
MUSIC DIRECTOR maybe a lot of time alone on our couches or in front of our screens,
& CONDUCTOR
it’s time to get back together, get on our feet, and dance! Dance
is universal and is an important part of many celebrations and social
HOMECOMING
gatherings. What better way to celebrate a year when we are all gathering
DANCE
again than with a collection of dances from around the world?
This season is full of energetic and upbeat music that was either
written for or inspired by dance, and we know it’s going to have us
all tapping our toes and itching to dance along. We’ll be treating Don’t miss the Homecoming Dance!
our audiences to an eclectic orchestral Dance Mix of music from a Our opening night of the season will be
diverse group of composers. We’ll be playing a variety of selections a joyful celebration of thrilling dance
from very traditional classical ballet like Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and rhythms to usher in our new year. There will
Johann Strauss’s Voices of Spring Waltz, to less familiar but just as be orchestral fireworks with Stravinsky’s Firebird ballet
dance-able pieces like Summerland by William Grant Still and the score and you’ll have a hard time not dancing along
show-stopping Danzon No. 2 by Arturo Marquez. With pieces ranging to Marquez’s Danzon No. 2. We will also feature a true
from dramatic Flamenco romances to elegant French court minuets, star soloist — virtuoso violinist Rachel Lee Priday will
to Cuban and Russian and African and Italian dances, we will hear thrill you with sultry, ecstatic, and spectacular dances
dance styles from across many cultures and see them emerge in for violin and orchestra.
thrilling symphonic forms.
We look forward to seeing you at the dance!
—KYLE WILEY PICKETT OCTOBER 2, 2021
ANNA SHELEST SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
PIANO
Petite Suite de concert
ANTONIN DVORAK
Slavonic Dances, Op.46
CLARA SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto PYOTR IIYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
WITH ANNA SHELEST, PIANO Nutcracker Selections
WITH THE K-STATE TAP DANCE ENSEMBLE
CECILE CHAMINADE
Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra Other holiday favorites
WITH ANNA SHELEST, PIANO
FANCY EN
FOOTWORK POINTE
Don’t look at your feet! Enjoy an eclectic evening We’ll be right en pointe for the holiday season with
of orchestral and piano show-stoppers, music from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. This ballet
including Dvorak’s high-spirited Slavonic has become a beloved part of the season and it
Dances and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lively is especially thrilling to hear this music played by
Petite Suite de concert. We also welcome to our stage a full symphony orchestra. Our Holiday concert
for the first time the wonderful pianist Anna Shelest, is always one of our biggest hits of the season,
who will play two amazing and neglected works and this year will be no exception! Get your tickets
for piano and orchestra — Clara Schumann’s Piano early so you won’t miss your seasonal favorites
Concerto and Cecile Chaminade’s Concert Piece for and a return of our audience carol sing!
Piano and Orchestra.
NOVEMBER 13, 2021 DECEMBER 1, 2021
GABRIELLA LENA FRANK AMY BEACH
Coqueteos — from Leyendas Bal Masque
WILLIAM GRANT STILL DAVID BRIGGS
Summerland Organ Concerto
BENJAMIN BRITTEN MAURICE RAVEL
Simple Symphony Daphnis and Chloe
ANTONIN DVORAK
Serenade for Winds
SENTIMENTAL PAS
SARABANDE DE DEUX
We’ll start off 2022 with an intimate concert of The Pas de Deux is a grand duet — a love story
romantic and soulful dances, including Gabriella in ballet form — and at this concert we present the
Lena Frank’s flirtatious Conqesteos from Leyendas epic love story of Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe.
and William Grant Still’s transcendent and Gorgeous and lush, this orchestral masterpiece
enchanting Summerland. The Topeka Symphony’s tells an impressionistic story. We are also excited
wind section will get a chance in the spotlight to present American composer Amy Beach’s
with Dvorak’s Serenade for Winds, and the string courtly and elegant Bal Masque for the first time in
section is featured in Benjamin Britten’s playful Topeka. Our soloist David Briggs is one of the
Simple Symphony, full of dance-motifs and charm. preeminent organists of our time, and we are pleased
to feature him playing his own organ concerto
on the magnificent organ in White Concert Hall.
JANUARY 22, 2022 FEBRUARY 12, 2022
JOHANN STRAUSS, JR.
Voices of Spring Waltz
Young Artist Competition Winner
GUSTAV MAHLER
Symphony No. 1 — The Titan
DANCE
AROUND,,
AROUND FLAMENCO!
AROUND AN EVENING OF FLAMENCO DANCE
WITH ENSEMBLE IBERICA
At our final masterworks concert of the year, we bring We will finish our season of dance
Europe’s many dance traditions together. You’ll hear music with a Spanish flourish!
a traditional elegant, swirling Viennese Waltz, by Join us for a thrilling evening
Johann Strauss, Jr., who was, of course, the of Flamenco music with Kansas
“Waltz King.” You’ll enjoy the City’s own Flamenco group
exciting performance of our Ensemble Iberica. Hear the
Young Artist Competition rhythms and melodies of Spain
winner. We conclude our concert with Mahler’s epic First Symphony, as the orchestra is joined by guitar, percussion,
which includes foot-stomping dances and yodeling that Mahler had and vocals. Watch as the drama of the Flamenco
already put to good use in one of his first songs, Hans und Grete. dance is brought to our stage. It will be a great
“Dance around, around!” the song goes. “Let whoever is happy way to cap a season of Dance Mix!
weave in and out! Let whoever has cares find his way home.”
APRIL 9, 2022 MAY 14, 2022
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SYMPHONY SUPPERS
Enjoy a pre-concert dinner with your friends
on Oct. 2, Nov. 13, Jan. 22, Feb. 12, Apr. 9,
and May 14. Maestro Pickett will present “Concert
Conversations” at 6:30 pm.
All Symphony Suppers will be in the Bradbury Thompson
Alumni Center with the exception of the October 2nd supper
which will be in Washburn’s Memorial Union.
Please arrive for dinner by 5:30 p.m. Seating for the Concert
Conversations begins at 6:15 p.m.
$33.00 per person
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