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The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra invites all local artists to collaborate with us on our upcoming Program Book for our season of Music & the Dance. Participating artists would create artwork that reflects the music of DANCE. Each of our concerts has specific music relating to dance and participating artists may consider designing their work around that particular concert or piece. Artworks for a particular concert are given an opportunity to, not only appear in the section of our book highlighting the artists, but may also be chosen for a particular concert’s page. All artwork pertaining to dance will be acceptable.

Selected artwork will appear in our Program Book and a reception will be held during the course of the upcoming season where the participating artists will be able to exhibit/sell their artwork.

In addition to traditional artwork, the orchestra has violins and cellos available for painting. Any artist wishing to paint one of these may call the orchestra office and obtain one, and use the instrument as their canvas.

All artwork must be to the HHSO office by Wednesday, June 30, 2010 for inclusion in the Program Book.

The parameters are as follows:
All artwork for insertion in the book must be in our office by June 30, 2010
(we will accept original artwork – unframed - or a digital copy)

Artist’s name, address, telephone #, email address and title of artworkmust accompany the artwork

All original artwork must be picked up from our office by July 12, 2010

Our address is:
Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra
32 Office Park Road
Suite 214
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
(digital copies may be mailed to the above address to arrive no later that Wednesday, June 30)

To participate or for further information, please call Sarah Bergin at the Symphony office at 843-842-2055 or email her at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Please view the season’s offerings below for each concert’s dance music.

Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra
Mary Woodmansee Green, Music Director & Conductor
2010-11 29th Season
Music and the Dance

#1 OPENING NIGHT –
Monday, October 4, 2010 8 pm FPC

Weber’s Romantic Opera Overture, Dvořák’s Bohemian Dances and Brahms’ symphonic Second Piano Concerto in the hands of a German virtuoso opens our 29th Season.

Benjamin Moser, Piano

* Smith/Ormandy: Star-Spangled Banner
* Weber: Overture to “Der Freischütz”
* Dvořák: Slavonic Dances from Op. 46 and Op.72
* Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op.83

#2 Halloween!
Monday, October 25, 2009 8 pm FPC

A concert of Halloween favorites: a musical portrait Robert Burns’ legendary scoundrel, Wagner’s epic ride, Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King”, plus pits, pendulums, tricks, treats and the Parisian can-can. Come as you are or wear a costume!

Regina Helcher Yost, Piccolo

* Arnold: Tam O’Shanter Overture
* Broughton: Piccolo Concerto
* Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
* Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46
* Wendel: A Halloween Trilogy
* Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld

#3 LEOPOLD’S VIOLIN
Monday, November 15, 2010 8 pm FPC

Internationally-known violinist Christopher Collins Lee plays his 1680 Cremona violin which once belonged to Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang’s father and teacher. Rounding out the program are Bartók’s Dances, Arensky’s lush variations and Shostakovich’s Quartet rescored for string orchestra.

Christopher Collins Lee, Violin

* Bartók: Rumanian Folk Dances
* Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a
* Shostakovich: Symphony for Strings
* Mozart: Violin Concerto No.3 in G Major

#4 WELCOME YULE!
Family Concert: Sunday, December 5, 2010 4-5 pm FPC (With a special appearance by Santa Claus!)
Monday, December 6, 2010 8 pm FPC

Welcome the Season with music from Hansel & Gretel with children singing and dancing, a symphony of well-known Christmas Carols, dazzling playing by young competition winner, and Frosty the Snowman with the Hilton Head Dance Theatre.

Jocelyn Zhu, Violin 2010 HHSO Youth Concerto Competition Winner
Hilton Head Dance Theatre Celebration of HHDT 25th Anniversary
HHCS Youth Chorus, Lori Maurer, Director
Humperdinck Prelude, Evening Prayer and Dream Pantomime from “Hansel & Gretel”

* Hely-Hutchinson: Carol Symphony
* Barber: Violin Concerto: I
* Meyerbeer: Les Patineurs- Frosty the Snowman
* Gruber: Silent Night

#5 The Russians are Coming
Sunday, January 16, 2011 8 pm FPC
Monday, January 17, 2011 8 pm FPC

An all-Russian program to open the New Year: Glière’s athletic Sailors’ Dance, Tchaikovsky contemporary Vassili Kalinnikov’s moving symphony, and Rachmaninoff’s fiendishly difficult Third Concerto as the 2010 HHIPC Winner returns.

___________, 2010 HHIPC Winner.

* Glière: Russian Sailors’ Dance from “The Red Poppy”
* Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1 in G minor
* Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30

#6 A NIGHT IN OLD VIENNA
Monday, January 31, 2011 8 pm FPC

Winter in Vienna is the time for the Strausses! We open with Suppé’s beloved Overture and hear a 17 year old virtuoso play Haydn’s tuneful Trumpet Concerto. The rest of the evening is devoted to the music of “the Waltz King”. Prosit!

Austin Williams Trumpet 2010 HHSO Youth Competition Concerto Winner

?___________, Soprano

Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Chorus

* Suppé: Poet & Peasant Overture
* Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
* Strauss Jnr: Emperor Waltzes, Op. 437
* Strauss Jnr: Overture and Ball Scene from “Die Fledermaus”

#7 STARCROSSED LOVERS –
BERNSTEIN to BOLÉRO!
Sunday, February 13, 2011 8 pm FPC
Monday, February 14, 2011 8 pm FPC

Musical settings of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers for the Broadway stage and the Bolshoi Theatre open this romantic program. Borodin’s Dances were encored in the Broadway hit “Kismet”, and Ravel’s masterful Boléro concludes our musical Valentine.

* Bernstein/Mason: West Side Story Medley
* Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1 op. 64bis
* Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from “Prince Igor”
* Ravel: Boléro

#8 RITE of SPRING
MONDAY, March 28, 2011 8 pm FPC

The profound effect of Stravinsky’s 1913 tale of a young girl dancing herself to death has not diminished. The rhythms and syncopations are visceral and is a milestone of Western music. We open with a charming suite of Renaissance dances by a 20th century French master and Tchaikovsky’s beloved Serenade for Strings.

* Poulenc: Suite Française
* Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, op. 48
* Stravinsky: Rite of Spring

#9 Three Centuries of Music
Monday, May 2, 2011 8 pm FPC

We conclude our season with three symphonic classics from three centuries: the Bach Double with our concertmaster and principal second violinist, Verdi’s great operatic march, and Holst’s famous and brilliantly inventive seven-movement score, which evokes the astrological characteristic of each planet: Mars, the Bringer of War – Venus, the Bringer of Peace – Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity…

Terry Moore and Angela Loizides, Violins

Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Chorus
* Verdi: Triumphal March & Ballet from “Aida”
* Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor
* Holst: The Planets