Carnival of the Animals:” 2026 Young People’s Concert

Adams City High School

Our soloist for this concert is Jacqueline Rodenbeck, a Tucson native and winner of the  most recent Sphinx Concerto Competition. Jackie will perform one of the all-time favorite  solo works in the repertoire, Felix Mendelssohn’s violin concerto. This concerto gets off  to a fiery start, so appropriately enough, we’ll lead into it with Gluck’s “Dance of the  Furies” from his opera Orpheus and Eurydice.

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Discovery

Sedona Performing Arts Center

The first half of this program presents works by the husband-and-wife team of Robert  and Clara Schumann presented side-by-side. Clara’s “Three Romances” for violin have  been re-arranged for orchestral accompaniment by yours truly, and will be performed by Sedona Symphony’s own concertmaster, Sarah Schreffler. For Robert Schumann’s  cello concerto, we’ve got the great young cellist Gabriel Martins joining us — who, as  luck would have it, has a strong Sedona connection!

The Romantics

The marimba is a beautiful, fascinating instrument that doesn’t always get the spotlight,  but in this concerto by the contemporary American composer Kevin Puts, we get to hear it in all its glory. The concert opens with Nancy Galbraith’s Midnight Stirring, another work that shows just how refreshing contemporary composition can be when a composer  embraces a straightforward American sound.  The second half of this concert takes us back to the classics, with music by the little known Italian composer Nicola Porpora (Haydn’s teacher) and the great Wolfgang  Amadeus Mozart writing at the height of his powers.

Mozart & Marimba

Our season kicks off Jon Nakamatsu, truly a “pianists’ pianist,” performing Beethoven’s  first concerto, a work that the composer created for himself to make a splash when he left his sleepy hometown of Bonn and took up residence in big city Vienna. Beethoven’s  favorite composer was Handel, so we’ll open the season with one of the Baroque master’s indelible overtures (brought up-to-date by none other than Mozart), but it’s Papa Haydn  — Beethoven’s teacher — who gets the final say with his mighty 99th symphony.

William White

Events

Past events

Mar 28, 2026

Carnival of the Animals:” 2026 Young People’s Concert · Aurora Symphony Orchestra

Mar 15, 2026

Discovery · Sedona Symphony

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn

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Conductor in Piano Concerto No. 1 by Beethoven

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Conductor in Orchestral Suite No. 3 by Bach

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Conductor in Three Romances for Violin and Piano by Schumann

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Conductor in Acis and Galatea by Handel

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Conductor in Symphony No. 99 by Haydn

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Conductor in Symphony No. 3 by Mendelssohn

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Conductor in Cello Concerto by Schumann

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Conductor in Marimba Concerto by Puts

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Conductor in Symphony No. 36 by Mozart

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Conductor in Midnight Stirring by Galbraith

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Conductor in Carlo il Calvo by Porpora

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Conductor in Dance of the Furies by Gluck

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Conductor in Symphony in D major by Bach

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