Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
Central Lutheran Church
333 S 12th St, Minneapolis

Osmo Vänskä, Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra, is the featured soloist in Mozart’s beloved Clarinet Concerto on this concert of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under the baton of William Schrickel. The Bridge, a Vänskä composition created in response to the 2007 collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, was commissioned and premiered by Schrickel and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in 2008. The concert opens with the world premiere of Stephen Heinemann's Metropassacaglia, commissioned by the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra to celebrate William Schrickel's tenth season as the orchestra's Music Director. Franz Joseph Haydn, who died 200 years ago, is represented by the overture to his opera The World on the Moon. Felix Mendelssohn, born in Hamburg the same year that Haydn died in Vienna, wrote his electrifying First Symphony when he was only 15. Samuel Barber, born in 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, composed his Mutations from Bach for brass choir and timpani in 1967

Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
St. Matthew’s Catholic Church
490 Hall Avenue, St. Paul

Music composed for celebrations will delight listeners of all ages in this special 1-hour family-friendly concert of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra conducted by Music Director William Schrickel. Explore the 300-year-old tune that has been the national anthem of no fewer than seven different countries and is known in the USA as America or My Country ‘Tis of Thee. Thrill to Mendelssohn’s joyful Wedding March. Let Shostakovich’s blazing Festive Overture transport you back in time fifty-five years to Russia for a huge political celebration. Bask in Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and revel in American composer Joan Tower’s equally powerful Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. Experience the swagger of the Olympic Fanfare and relive the excitement of the final scene of the first Star Wars movie.

Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
1310 Mainstreet, Hopkins

Music composed for celebrations will delight listeners of all ages in this special 1-hour family-friendly concert of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra conducted by Music Director William Schrickel. Explore the 300-year-old tune that has been the national anthem of no fewer than seven different countries and is known in the USA as America or My Country ‘Tis of Thee. Thrill to Mendelssohn’s joyful Wedding March. Let Shostakovich’s blazing Festive Overture transport you back in time fifty-five years to Russia for a huge political celebration. Bask in Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and revel in American composer Joan Tower’s equally powerful Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. Experience the swagger of the Olympic Fanfare and relive the excitement of the final scene of the first Star Wars movie.

Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.
Hopkins High School
2400 Lindbergh Drive, Minnetonka

The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the Minnesota Chorale join forces to present Carl Orff’s monumental Carmina Burana in this special ticketed concert. MSO Music Director William Schrickel leads the chorus, orchestra and 3 vocal soloists in Orff’s 1937 magnum opus and continues the MSO’s salute to the 100th anniversary of Samuel Barber’s birth with a performance of the composer’s Second Essay for Orchestra. Kathy Saltzman Romey, Artistic Director and conductor of the Minnesota Chorale, conducts soloists, chorus and orchestra in British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music, a breathtakingly beautiful setting of text from Act V of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
4100 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis

Dance numbers from operas by Russian composers Mikhail Glinka and Peter Tchaikovsky open the final concert of The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra’s 2009-2010 season, the MSO’s tenth year under the musical direction of William Schrickel. Takako Seimiya–Senn is the featured soloist in Armenian composer Alexander Arutiunian’s Trumpet Concerto, and mezzo soprano KrisAnne Weiss sings the premiere of Minneapolis composer John Tartaglia’s Dark Night–Glad Day, a work incorporating poetry taken from the late Bill Holm’s final book, The Windows of Brimnes. The program concludes with Russian Easter Overture, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s radiant symphonic tour de force.