October Overtures

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 – 7:30pm
Meyerson Symphony Center

October Overtures

Welcome Fall with Eric Whitacre’s lovely October and John Wesley Gibson’s We Will Always Share the Stars, then kick it up a notch with two martial favorites: Holst’s First Suite in E-flat for Military Band, and Tchaikovsky’s classic 1812 Overture.  It’s gonna get loud!
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky – Overture to Colas Breugnon
  • Eric Whitacre – October
  • Holst – First Suite in Eb for Military Band
  • John Wesley Gibson – We Will Always Share the Stars
  • Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture
  • Sousa – Belle of Chicago (encore)