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