Ruby Anniversary Celebration

Saturday, September 26, 2009 • 7:30 p.m.

McDowell Auditorium

        Bach                     Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, Mvt. 1

                                      Aaron Berofsky, violin; Julie Castor, violin

Mendelssohn              Concerto for Violin, op. 64 in E Minor

                                      Aaron Berofsky, violin

Tchaikovsky                Symphony No. 4, op. 36 in F Minor

The ASO kicks off the 40th anniversary season and commemorates the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth with a performance of his violin concerto featuring Aaron Berofsky.  This was Mendelssohn's last large orchestral work and one of the most popular and frequently performed violin concertos of all time.  Local violinist Julie Castor will join Berofsky for a movement of Bach's double violin concerto.

Underwritten by Packaging Corporation of America

Soloist sponsored by Samaritan Regional Health System

Soloist sponsored by O.E. & Betty J. Hawkins

Program printing sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Ingmand and Fran Lavender