15 September 2002
Founder's Day Concert in the Park
"Everyone Loves a March"
E. E. Bagley: National Emblem
Julius Fucik: The Florentiner
Pieter Leemans: March of the Belgian Paratroopers
Karl King: Barum and Bailey's Favorite
Percy Grainger: Gum Sucker's March
John Philip Sousa: Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (1924)
Edwin Franko Goldman: On the Mall
Camille Saint Saëns: Marche Militaire Française
Johannes Hanssen: Valdres
John Williams: Midway March
Paul Hindemith: March from Symphonic Metamorphois of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Karl King: The Melody Shop
Naohiro Iwai: Yagi-Bushi
Jaime Texidor: Amparito Roca
Kenneth Alford: Colonel Bogey
15 October 2002
William Schuman: Chester
Steven Bryant: Chester Leaps In
Michael Weinstein: Serenade for 12 Instruments
James Beckel, Jr.: The Glass Bead Game, with Alex Shuhan, horn
John Harbison: Three City Blocks
Paul Hindemith: Symphony in B-flat (1951)
4 December 2002
Eric Whitacre: Noisy Wheels of Joy
Warren Benson: Danzon Memory
Andreussen Jurraan: Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble, with Lee Goodhew, bassoon
Igor Stravinsk:y Symphonies of Wind Instruments (rev. 1947)
Nigel Clarke: Samurai
Percy Aldridge Grainger: The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart, with Timothy Reynish,
Conductor Emeritus, Royal Northern Conservatory of Music, Guest Conductor
19 February 2003=
W. A. Mozart: Excerpts from Don Giovanni
Michael Djupstrom: Homages (2002 Walter Beeler Composition Prize Winner)
Joseph Schwantner: . . . and the mountains rising nowhere
Jesus Guridi Diez: Melodias Vascas
Donald Grantham: Fantasy Variations
23 March 2003
James Miller, Graduate Conducting Recital
Richard Strauss: Serenade for Winds, op. 7
Jayce Ogren: Symphony No. 1 (World Premiere)
Shawn Allison: Passage to Dawn
Dimitri Shostakovich (arr. H. Robert Reynolds): Prelude No.14, op. 34
Charles Ives (arr. Richard E. Thurston): "The Alcotts" from Piano Sonata No. 2
Dan Welcher: Zion
6 April 2003
"Music of Fantasy"
Howard Shore: selections from the Lord of the Rings Symphony
Herbert Stothart, et al: Selections form "The Wizard of Oz"
Eric Whitacre: Godzilla Eats Las Vegas
John Williams: Selections from "E. T."
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Selections form "Robin Hood"
26 April 2003
Malcolm Arnold: Tam 'O Shanter
W. A. Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet, with Richard Faria, clarinet
John Barnes: Chance Elegy
Igor Stravinsky: Suite from the Firebird