Mankato Symphony Orchestra : Concerts and Tickets

The 2010-2011 Concert Season

6OTH bIRTHdaY baSH
Date: Time: Location:	October 10, 2010 3 pm Mankato West HS auditorium
Come kick off our 60th Birthday Bash with Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Peter McGuire brings a personal blend of poetry and power to Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, an epic and sublime work. Mendelssohn’s journey to Italy promises sunny lyricism and joyful melodies. A brass fanfare by the late MSO Music Director Rolf Scheurer opens the season celebrating sixty years of beautiful music and connecting our future to our past.
Scheurer - Beethoven - Mendelssohn -	Scherzo for Brass and Tympani Violin Concerto in D 2 Peter McGuire, Violin Italian Symphony

PICTURES aT an ExHIbITIOn
Date: Time: Location:	November 21, 2010 3 pm Mankato West HS auditorium
Hear the passion and mysticism of the Russian soul in the exquisite and wild music of Russia’s masters. Minnesota Orchestra Principal Horn Michael Gast will dazzle you with his virtuosity.
Borodin - Stravinsky - Gliere - Mussorgsky/Ravel -	In the Steppes of Central Asia Firebird Suite Horn Concerto Michael Gast, Horn Pictures at an Exhibition

Candy Cane Concert
Date: Time: Location:	December 5, 2010 3 pm Mankato West HS auditorium
Our Mankato Ballet dazzles in the Nutcracker Suite! Back by popular demand, Mezzo Eleda Blair and Baritone Kimm Julian will sing selections from Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and the old chestnuts roasting on an open fire, before leading us in the traditional sing-a-long. Candy canes for the kiddies!
Tchaikovsky - Kimm Julian Eleda Blair	Nutcracker featuring Mankato Ballet

La TRaVIaTa
Date: Time: Location:	February 27, 2011 3 pm Mankato West HS auditorium
Verdi’s eternally popular opera tells the tale of a conflicted courtesan, her devoted lover and his disapproving father. Hear singing actresses and actors from the Minnesota Opera’s Young Artist Program in the title roles in this semi -staged production featuring the Minnesota Valley Chorale and soloists. Kenneth Freed conducts the emotionally evocative score.

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Date: Time: Location:	May 22, 2011 3 pm Mankato West HS auditorium
Ravel’s Mourner’s Kaddish frames the sublime lyricism of native composer Brent Michael Davids who gives voice to the musical spirit of the Dakota people. Award winning composer Geoffrey Hudson’s Meeting Ground also finds new sacred space in the mix of northern plains pow-wow music with the symphonic sound. The Maze Kute Drummers, high school choirs, and Minnesota Orchestra Principal Trumpeter Manny Laureano will inspire. Finally, hear Dvorak’s hope for America in his uplifting classic, the New World Symphony.
Ravel - Hudson - Davids - Davids - Dvorak -	Mourner’s Kadish Meeting Ground Trumpeting The Stone Black Hills Olowan New World Symphony
Maza Kute Drummers The Maza Kute Drummers are a traditional singing group from the Santee Indian Reservation. Santee, Nebraska is located in the Northeast corner of Nebraska along the banks of the Missouri river. The Maza Kute drum group has been singing for over 30 years, the group was formed in 1979. This drum group has kept the music alive in the Santee community with the help of many great singers. They have singers and relatives scattered throughout Indian Country and have traveled extensively.