2016-2017 season

John Williams’ Movie Masterworks

September 24, 2016

Kleinhans Music Hall

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, John Morris Russell, conductor

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)

Call of the Champions (2002 Winter Olympics)

"Dry Your Tears Afrika" from AMISTAD (1997)

Lehrer Dance with the BPC

Lehrer Dance Company (UB Center for the Arts)

[Composer not yet identified] - "Rhapsody" (World Premiere)

Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture!

October 15 and 16, 2016

Kleinhans Music Hall

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 1812, Overture Solonelle, Op. 49

(Also performed: Tchaikovsky, "Polonaise" from Eugene Onegin; Tchaikovsky, Rococo Variations; Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings)

Handel’s Messiah

November 27, 2016

Our Lady of Victory Basilica

Buffalo Philharmonic Choir with Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Adam Luebke, conductor

Joyce Yin, soprano

Katie Hannigan, mezzo-soprano

Tim Schuman, tenor

James Wright, baritone

Classical Christmas

December 9 and 10, 2016

Kleinhans Music Hall

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Stefan Sanders, conductor

Eric Whitacre - "Winter"

J.S. Bach - "Nun said ihr wohl gerochen" from Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248

Randol Bass - "Festival Magnificat"

John Rutter (arr.) - "I Saw Three Ships"

John Rutter - "Mary's Lullaby"

Hander/Rutter - "Joy to the World"

*Handel - Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah

*Soloists:

Emily Helenbrook, soprano

Mitchell Huchings, baritone

Ayden Herreid, boy soprano

Holiday Pops

December 16, 17, and 18, 2016

Kleinhans Music Hall

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, John Morris Russell, conductor

Willcocks - "Ding Dong Merrily On High"

Shaw/Bennett - The Many Moods of Christmas, Suite 4

"Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light"

"The First Noel"

"O Little Town of Bethlehem"

"I Saw Three Ships"

"Deck the Halls"

John Williams - "Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone

*Leontovich/Barlow Bradford - "Carol of the Bells"

***Jeff Tyzik - "Mis zeh Hidlik" (Behold the Lights)

**K. K. Davis - "Little Drummer Boy"

Arr. Michael Braz - "A Suite of Carols" (Sing-Along)

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (unlisted on program)

*[In collaboration with] Westminster Presbyterian Church Bell Choir, dir. Steven Mayo

**[In collaboration with] African American Cultural Center

***[In collaboration with] Anna Mattix, English Horn

Brahms' Requiem

February 18 and 19, 2017

Kleinhans Music Hall

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor

Johannes Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 [A German Requiem]

Deborah Selig, soprano

Darren Stokes, bass

(Also performed: Kodály, Dances Marosszek; Kodály, Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song, "Peacock Variations")

Belshazzar’s Feast

June 3 and 4, 2017
Kleinhans Music Hall

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor

William Walton - Belshazzar’s Feast

Kevin Deas, baritone

(Also performed: Edward Elgar, In the South; Peter Maxwell Davies, An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise)

Broadway Comedy Tonight

June 10, 2017

Kleinhans Music Hall

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Stefan Sanders, conductor
Loesser - Guys and Dolls Overture

Sondheim - "Comedy Tonight" from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Gershwin - "By Strauss" from Nice Work If You Can Get It

Loesser - "Adelaide's Lament" from Guys and Dolls

Willson - "You Got Trouble" from The Music Man

Porter - "Friendship" from Anything Goes

Willson - "76 Trombones" from The Music Man

Kander & Ebb - "Ring Them Bells" from Liza with a 'Z'

Rodgers - "My Funny Valentine" from Babes in Arms

Sondheim - "Getting Married Today" from Company

Menken - "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid

Strouse - "Easy Street" from Annie

Kander & Ebb - "When You're Good to Mama" from Chicago

Schwartz - "Popular" from Wicked

DuPrez, Idle, Innes - "Diva's Lament" from Spamalot

Bernstein, Overture from Candide

Bernstein, "Glitter and Be Gay" from Candide

Parker, Stone, Lopez - "You and Me, But Mostly Me" from The Book of Mormon

Fekaris & Perren - "I Will Survive" from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Shaiman - "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray

Soloists:

Christiane Noll, soprano

Christine Pedi, soprano

Madeline Harts, soprano

West Richter, tenor

Jason Graae, tenor