Missouri All State Orchestra History 

2008

 

Dr. Paul Phillips, Conductor

Academic Festival Overture,  Brahms

Missouri River Songs and Dances, Commissioned work by John Cheetham

Night on Bald Mountain, Moussorgsky

 

2007

 

Dr. Mark Parker, Conductor

An Outdoor Overture, Copland

Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23A, Barber

Polovtsian Dances from the Opera Prince Igor, Borodin

 

2006
 

Dr. David Barg, conductor

Overture to Candide - Leonard Bernstein

Scherzo Fantastique - Commissioned Work by Michael McLean

Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy - Peter I. Tchaikovsky

2005  
 

Dr. Timothy Russell, Conductor
Carnival Overture - Dvorak
Love Duet from Merrymount - Hanson
An American in Paris - Gershwin

2004  

Margery Deutsch, conductor

Cappriccio Bohemian, OP 12, Rachmaninoff

Out of Adullum, commissioned work by Kirt Mosier

Symphony No 5, Finale, Shostakovich

 

2003  

Ken Kiesler, conductor

Academic Festival Overture, Brahms

Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky

 

2002 
 

Emily Freeman Brown, conductor

Pines of Rome, Respighi

Mysterious Mountain ( Symphony #2), Hovhaness

Commissioned work by Chris Theofanidis

 

2001  

Alastair Willis, conductor

Symphonic Dances, from West Side Story, Bernstein

Adagio for Strings, Barber

Prelude to Die Meistersingers, Wagner

2000   

Dr. Robert Culver, conductor

Rienzi Overture, Wagner

Missouri Dreamscape, commissioned work by Andrew List

Komm Susser Tod, Bach

Soirrees Musicales, Britten

 

1999 

Dr. Harry Dunscombe, Conductor 
Symphonie Nr. 6, Opus 68 in F Major ("The Pastorale Symphony"), Ludwig van Beethoven

 

1998 

Dr Gerald Fischbach, Conductor 
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, J. S. Bach/Leopold Stokowski 
Colas Breugnon Overture, Op. 24,  Dimitri Kabelevsky 
Waltz from Sleeping Beauty, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky 
Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34, Edvard Grieg 
Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila, Camille Saint-Saens

 

1997 

Dr. William LaRue Jones, Conductor 
Overture to LaForza del Destino, Giuseppe Verdi 
Octet, Op. 20, Allegro moderato, Felix Mendelssohn 
Horizons, Robert Charles Howard (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1997 Missouri All-State Orchestra)
Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Finale, Vassili Kalinnikov

 

1996 

Dr. William LaRue Jones, Conductor 
Divinum Mysterium, W. Thomas McKenney (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1996 Missouri All-State Orchestra) 
Aria (Air from Overture No. 3 in D Major), J. S. Bach/Stokowski 
Symphony No. 5, Op. 47, Allegro non Troppo, Dimitri Shostakovich

 

1995

Dr. Robert Gillespie, Conductor 
Festival Overture, Op. 96, Dimitri Shostakovich 
Three Binghams for String Orchestra, John Cheetham (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1985 Missouri All-State Orchestra; published by Shawnee Press) 
Symphony No. 5, Op. 64, Finale, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

 

1994


Kenneth Andrews, Conductor
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80, Johannes Brahms
Concertino #3 for String Orchestra, Samuel Adler (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1994 Missouri All-State Orchestra)
Firebird Suite, (Infernal Dance & Berceuse and Finale), Igor Stravinsky

 

1993


Sandra Dackow, Conductor
String Sinfonie No. 9 in C (Grave-Allegro), Felix Mendelssohn
Rhythmic Variations on Two Ancient Hymns, Howard Hanson
Revelation, Kirt N. Mosier (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1993 Missouri All-State Orchestra)
St. Paul's Suite, Gustav Holst
 

1992
 

Michael Allard, Conductor

Serenade for Strings, Tchaikovsky

Overture for Strings, Paul Whear (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1992 Missouri All-State Orchestra)


 

1991

Niklaus Wyss, Conductor 
Three Divertimenti, No. 1 in D Major, K. 136, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Invocation and Exultation 1791-1991, Michael Horvit (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1991 Missouri All-State String Orchestra, Financial assistance provided by the Missouri Arts Council)
Serenade in G Major, K. 525 ("Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

1990

Stephen Shipps, Conductor 
Adagio and Fugue, K. 546, W. A. Mozart 
Two Tableaux, Prairie Vista, Festival, Walter J. Halen (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1990 Missouri All-State String Orchestra, Financial assistance provided by the Missouri Arts Council) 
Holberg Suite, Op. 40, Edvard Grieg

 

1988


Paul Vermel, Conductor
Chacony in G minor for strings, Henry Purcell
Overture: "Our Creed is Our Shield," Claude T. Smith (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1981 Missouri All-State Orchestra)
Divertimento in C major, K. 157, W.A. Mozart
String Triptych, Ulysses Kay
Pizzicato Polka