Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
Based on The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon Runyon

Songs like Adelaide's Lament, A Bushel and a Peck,

Beethoven’s Ninth is the unquestioned champion of the concert hall, a work that sums up the Classical age, looks forward to what would follow �" and has come to represent courage, hope and triumph around the world.  SSV performed it in 2007-08 to packed houses. The concert opens with Bach’s first Brandenburg Concerto, itself a supreme masterpiece of the Baroque. This combination was the first program ever conducted by our returning Maestro George Cleve; as he says, “How can you do better?”

This concert originally scheduled for October 1 & 2, 2011

Bartok’s magnificent Concerto for Orchestra is the perfect choice for our season of celebration, -- a piece that spotlights each section of the orchestra in turn, full of melody, crackling rhythms and emotion. Popular Maestro Vajda pairs his Hungarian compatriot’s masterwork with Brahms’s rich, warm Second Symphony, which SSV first performed in 2004-05.  Together, these works showca...

Works from the Far North close our anniversary year.  Grieg’s dramatic Suite, filled with memorable tunes, conjures up tales straight out of Norwegian folklore. Ning An, ‘a formidable keyboard talent,’ takes on Rachmaninoff’s masterpiece. Melody was in Rachmaninoff’s bones, and the Rhapsody includes one of the greatest ever written for orchestra (Variation #18 -- but you’ll know it instantly).  Maestro Boughton, longtime conductor in Finland, ends with Sibelius’s heroic Second Symphony.  This passionate work highlighted Symphony Silicon Valley’s op...