Alma Symphony Orchestra
Murray Gross, Music Director
The Alma Symphony Orchestra provides instrumentalists with an exciting and rewarding orchestral experience. Students join together with community members and professionals to perform a wide variety of traditional and modern repertoire. Each season offers artistic challenges, and the ensemble achieves high quality performances while maintaining a relaxed and enjoyable rehearsal atmosphere. Along with four subscription concerts each year, the ASO plays special events such as an annual Children’s Concert, and collaborates with outstanding soloists, choirs and ballet companies.
The Alma Symphony Orchestra performs in the beautiful Oscar E. Remick
Heritage Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Alma College.
Directed by Dr. Murray Gross, former Assistant Conductor of the Detroit
Symphony, the ASO is an ideal opportunity for students at all levels to
experience the thrill of playing in a fine orchestra. Students may also
win the opportunity to solo with the ASO by participating in the
Student Concerto Competition.
Recent seasons have included a wide range of works by Mozart, Bartok, Sibelius, Grieg, Hanson, Elgar, and many others, including:
(click on highlighted pieces to hear excerpts from live performances)
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Copland-Billy the Kid
DeFalla-Scenes and Dances from "The Three-Cornered Hat" Handel-Music for the Royal Fireworks Márquez-Danzón No. 2 Debussy-Afternoon of a Faun Schubert-Symphony No. 8
Tchaikovsky-Polonaise from “Eugene Onegin” Ravel-Mother Goose Suite Brahms-A German Requiem Beethoven-Violin Concerto (performed by Dr. Takeshi Abo, Alma College faculty) Prokofiev-Lt. Kije Suite Sibelius-Finlandia Rossini-Italian in Algiers Overture Dvorak-Serenade Bartok-Rumanian Folk Dances Piazzola-Tangazo, Milonga del Angel Dukas-Fanfare from “La Per Nielsen-Aladdin |
Hovhaness- And God Created Great Whales Maxwell Davies-An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise Beethoven-Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor” Torke-Sax Concerto Mozart-Sinfonia Concertante, K.364 Borodin-Polovtsian Dances Offenbach- Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld Liszt-Totentanz, for piano and orchestra Haydn-Symphony No. 82 “The Bear” Rosauro-Marimba Concerto Orff-Carmina Burana Faure-Pelleas and Melisande Stravinsky-Suite No. 2 Rachmaninoff-Piano Concerto No. 2 Mendelssohn-Overture to The Hebrides Mozart-Clarinet Concerto Arriaga-Symphony in D |
