A concert from Columbia gets the month started. The USC School of Music Symphony Orchestra welcomes guest conductors and a soloist to a program from November 2013 featuring beloved Brahms and Tchaikovsky. And highlights from another concert in January 2014 round out the program with a familiar Mendelssohn concert overture and some Slavic Tchaikovsky.
Listen to the entire program
Billboard and introduction to Johannes Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture – Lauren Rico
BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture
USC Symphony Orchestra
Donald Portnoy, conductor
Introduction to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in f-minor – Lauren Rico
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4 in f-minor
USC Symphony Orchestra
Donald Portnoy, conductor
Break and introduction to Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme – Mike McKay and Lauren Rico
TCHAIKOVSKY: Variations on a Rococo Theme
USC Symphony Orchestra
Zhongui Dai, conductor
Jiapeng Nie, cello
Introduction to Felix Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco – Lauren Rico
MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture
VERDI: Nabucco
USC Symphony Orchestra
Donald Portnoy, conductor
Introduction to Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March – Lauren Rico
TCHAIKOVSKY: Slavonic March
USC Symphony Orchestra
Donald Portnoy, conductor
End of the show – Mike McKay and Lauren Rico