Celebration Concert Program

Celebration Concert Program

Welcome to Greenacres

Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
John Morris Russell, conductor

Cincinnati Ballet Second Company – CB2
Cervilio Amador, Interim Artistic Director
Yoshihsa Arai, Director of Second Company – CB2

May Festival Chorus
Matthew Swanson, Director of Choruses

Members of the Cincinnati Opera
Heidi Middendorf, soprano
Victoria Okafor, soprano
Evans Mirageas, Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director

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John Stafford Smith
The Star-Spangled Banner

Aaron Copland
John Henry

Felix Mendelssohn
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
 “They Said Farewell Forever”
from Hiawatha’s Departure

Douglas Moore
“Gold is a Fine Thing” (Silver Aria)
from The Ballad of Baby Doe

James M. Stephenson
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Narrated by Joe Zerhusen, Public Address Announcer at Great American Ballpark

Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 5

James P. Johnson
The Charleston

Ludwig Van Beethoven
Finale of Mvt. 5 from Symphony No. 6 , Pastoral

Harold Arlen
“Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz

Charlie Smalls
“Home” from The Wiz

Stephen Schwartz
“For Good” from Wicked

Luther Ronzoni Vandross
“Brand New Day” from The Wiz