Name: The First Ladies of Song
Start: 2024-06-15T19:30:00
Location: Rhinebeck High School

Kathleen Beckmann

​Helen Welch

Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra

Our annual “Sounds of the Season” concert is the perfect way to begin your celebrations! This year, we’re honoring the person who makes it all possible—Santa! Enjoy beloved classics like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, and It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, along with music from The Polar Express and Miracle on 34th Street. Don’t miss our perennial kiddie conductors and a special narration of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas by local voice actor Jason Dempsey.

Sounds of the season ​santa baby!

Rhinebeck High School

Liftoff and come explore the final frontier with music inspired by the universe. We begin with Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra which became the opening credits for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Then travel through the cosmos with new music by Julie Giroux, Blue Marble, and Mason Bates, Mothership, before making a stop at our solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter. The themes from Star Trek, E.T., Superman, and Star Wars will complete our interstellar journey.

Out of this world

The Culinary Institute of America

Explore dances throughout the world that will delight and have you moving in your seat. From Europe, we hear the folk-dance influenced Hungarian Dances by Brahms and the eerie spectre of Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens. In Copland’s Rodeo we have the sounds of the American West. To round out our program we have Ginastera’s Estancia Dances bursting with Argentinian rhythms, while Danzon No. 2 by Marquez has the infectious sounds of Mexico.

Let's dance

​Join NDSO and guest artists from the Hudson Valley Saxophone Orchestra for an afternoon of jazz! Big band standards by Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman will have you tapping your toes. Enjoy familiar songs by George Gershwin, along with his orchestral masterpiece An American in Paris, and finally a swinging solo with the Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto performed by Dr. Diego Vásquez, professor of clarinet at Ithaca College.

And All that Jazz

Celebrating the music of the First Ladies of Song from Ella to Adele, from Barbra Streisand to Aretha Franklin and so much more! Featuring singer Helen Welch.