The 2009-10 Powder River Symphony season is a season of change with 2 international guest artists for our fall and spring concerts, a unique and memorable holiday concert, chamber ensembles in the schools in February and an added outdoor concert in the summer.

The season opens with our Fall Classic featuring guest trombonist, Dr. James Lebens, from Laval University in Quebec performing the Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra by Eric Ewazen and with funding from a grant from “Meet the Composer” the composer himself will also join us for the week of the performance. The concert features the brass players in Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Symphony #2 “the Romantic” of Howard Hanson with an additional treat of a performance of Eric Ewazen’s Colchester Fantasy by one of our brass quintets.

The Holiday Concert features the works of Johann Sebastian Bach with his Orchestra Suite #3 with the familiar “Air in G”, The Sheep may Safely Graze and Wachet Auf from Cantata 140. These along with other traditional goodies make a wonderful beginning to your holiday season.

During February our brass, woodwind and string ensembles will be visiting our schools to give chamber music performances. This is a great opportunity for students to interact with our musicians and ask the questions they always wanted to ask.

Pianist, Dr. Tânia Cançado, from Belo Horizonte, Brazil will join us in April for a performance of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Other American works will be partnered with the Rhapsody including Il Guarany by Gomez and Charles Ive’s Variations on America.

We will end the season with an outdoor Summer Pops Concert. This is a new addition and we hope you enjoy this extension of our season. Look for dates and location later this year.

Finally, don’t forget to bring your family to the symphony. Children and students 18 and under have free admission to all Powder River Symphony concerts.

Leadership support for Meet The Composer's MetLIfe Creative Connections program is genersouly provided by MetLife Foundation. Additional support is provided by The Amphion Foundation, Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, BMI Foundation, Inc.., Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The WIlliam & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Jerome Foundation, mediaThe foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Virgil Thompson Foundation, Ltd.