30 - Sunday, August 28, 1988 - North Shore News By way of welcoming you to the Vancouver Symphony's 88/89 season, | will ask you this. What's your favourite Broadway number? Memory from Cats? Tonight from West Side Story? Or maybe you're more attuned to the electrifying high notes af soprano Hei-Kyung Hong, or the flying fingers of Vancouver violinist Corey Cerovsek. In either case, you're in for some serious entertainment. For this, our most ambitious and dynamic musical presentation ever, will whisk you from the romance of renaissance Vienna to the pounding rhythms of Richard Hayman’s Dance Fever - and more of the world’s greatest music in between. With a subscription to the Symphony's 88/89 season, you won't miss a single beat. Peter MeCoppin Music Advisor and Conductor (Bl) FEB. 18, 20, 21 - Sergiu Comissiona, conduc- tor; James Campbell, clarinet; Berlioz - Le Corsaire; Debussy - Rhapsody for Clari- net and Orchestra; Weber - Clarinet Con- certo No. 1; Brahms - Quartet arrange- ment by Schoenberg (B2) MAR. 11, 13,14 ~ Hermann Michael, con- ductor; Cyprien Katsaris, piano; Brahms -Variations on a theme by Haydn; Liszt -Piano Concerto No. 2: Mendelssohn - Scherzo, Intermezzo, and Nocturne from a Midsummer Night's Dream; Mozart - Symphony No. 39. (BI) APR. 15,17, 18 ~ Peter McCoppin, conductor; Young Uck Kim, violin; Schubert - Overture to Rosamunde; Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D Minor: Schumann - Symphony No. 2 (B2) MAY 20, 22, 23 - Peter McCoppin, conduc- tor; Louis Lortie, piano; Mozart - Magic Flute Overture; Beethoven - Piano Con- certo No. 1; Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 Note: Mozart lovers may wish to subscribe to Masterworks Series B2, The “Mazart Plus” series. MASTERWORKS B Saturday and Monday 8.00pm MASTERWORKS A Sunday 2:30 pm, Monday 8:00pm CT] (Al) OCT-t6,17- Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor: Anton Kuerti, piano; MeKay- Dance Over- ture; Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3: Stravinsky ~ Petroushka (1947} OCT. 30, 31 - Peter McCoppin, conductor; Hei-Kyung Hong, soprano; Bizet - Sym- phony in C; Berlioz- Les Nuits D'été: Ravel - Daphnis and Chloe No. 2 NOV. 13, 14 ~ Bernard Klee, conductor; Cecile Ousset, piano; Ravel - Rhapsodie Espagnole; Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1; Mendelssohn ~ Symphony No. 4 “Italian” DEC. 4,5 - Georg Tintner, conductor, Kyoko Takezawa, violin; Prevost - Evanescence, Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 3; Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” JAN. 8, 9- Neeme farui, conductor; Matt Haimovitz, cello; Dvorak - Cello Concerto; R. Strauss - Symphonia Domestica FEB. 5, 6 - Zdenek Macal, conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano; Smetana - The Moldau; Bartok - Piano Concerto No. 2; Mussorgsky- Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition FEB, 26, 27 - Karl-Anton Rickenbacher, conductor; Robert McDuffie, violin; Weber - Oberon Overture; Bruch - Concerto in G Minor; Mahler - Symphony No.5 APRIL 2, 3 - Peter McCoppin, conductor; Jon Kimura Parker, piano; Mendelssohn - Ruy Blas Overture; Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No, 2; Sibelius- Symphony No. 2 APRIL 23, 24 - Peter McCoppin, conductor, Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Beethoven - Coriolan Overture; Beethoven - Violin Concerto; Weisgarber- Musica Serena; Janacek - Sinfonietta MAY 28, 29 - Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conduc- tor; Julian Lioyd Webber, cello; Takemitsu ~ Green; Egar- Cello Concerto, Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2 CHORAL MASTERPIECES Saturday and Monday 8:00 pm Presented in association with the Vancouver Bach Choir [1] Nov, 26, 28 - Peter McCoppin, conductor: Nancy Argenta, soprano; Jean Stilwell, alto; Bruce Pullan, tenor; Gary Relyea, bass; Haydn - Symphony No. 93 in D Major; Brahms - Alto (4) (B)) ocr. 22, 24 -Franz-Paul Decker, conductor; Angela Cheng, piano; Ridout - Fall Fair; Brahms - Piano Concerto No. t; R. Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra (B2) NOV.5,7 ~ Peter MeCoppin, conductor: Nigel Kennedy, violin; Mozart - Don Giovanni Overture; Mozart - Symphony No. 40; Ridout - George {II His Lament; Elgar ~ Violin Concerto [3] (Bl) Nov19,21- Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor; Norbert Kraft, guitar; Rossini - William Tell Overture; Rodrigo - Guitar Concerto; Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade (B2) DEC. 40, 12 - Victor Feldbrill, conductor: Corey Cerousek, violin; Mozart - Symphony No. 26 in E-Flat; Somers - Passacaglia and Fugue; Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 4: Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 (Bl) JAN. 14, 16 - Kazimierz Kord, conductor; Arthur Ozolins, piano; Wagner - Rienzi Overture; Grieg - Piano Concerto; Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 (B2) JAN. 21,23, 24 ~ Stanislav Skrowaczewski, conductor; Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Weber - Overture, Der Freischutz; Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 5; Stravinsky - Rite of Spring GRAND MATINEE Tuesday 2:30pm Five delightful Tuesday afternoon performances of Masterworks B Series 6 to 10, see above. TEA & TRUMPETS Rhapsody: Haydn - Lord Nelson Mass FEB. 1, 13 ~ Peter McCoppin, conductor; Heidt Geddert, soprano; Lisa Monheit, contralto, Richard Margison, tenor; bass, (t.b.a); Mozart - Symphony No. 41; Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 MAR. 18, 20 ~ Bruce Pullant, conductor; Henriette Schellenberg. soprano; Sandra Graham, alto, Glyn Evans, tenor, Daniel Lichti, baritone; Bach - Mass in B Minor Tuesday 2:30 pm (41 oct. 25 - Peter McCoppin, conductor: The Strauss Family NOV. 8 - Peter McCoppin, conductor; A Walk in Prague [31 Nov. 22- Peter McCoppin, conductor, Franz Lehar - A Tribute (4) vec. 6 - Glen Fast, conductor, Love in Bath Call now to subscribe: VSO-3434