Programs have been chosen for the purpose of providing education and enjoyment
for both the audience and the performers.

2008/09 Season (NISO) 1996/97 Season (NISO)
2007/08 Season (NISO)

1995/96 Season (NISO)

2006/07 Season (NISO)

 1994/95 Season (Sioux County Orchestra)

2005/06 Season (NISO)

 1993/94 Season (Sioux County Orchestra)
2004/05 Season (NISO) 1992/93 Season (Sioux County Orchestra)
2003/04 Season (NISO) 1991/92 Season (Sioux County Orchestra)
2002/03 Season (NISO) 1990/91 Season (Sioux County Orchestra)
2001/02 Season (NISO) 1989/90 Season (Sioux County Orchestra)
2000/01 Season (NISO) 1988/89 Season (Sioux County Orchestra)
1999/00 Season (NISO) 1987/88 Season (Sioux County Orchestra)
1998/99 Season (NISO) 1986/87 Season (Sioux County Orchestra)
1997/98 Season (NISO)  

2008/09 New Directions

Fall Concert - November 18
Guest Conductor: Tim McGarvey
Guest Artist: John Thomson, Violin

Entry March of the Boyars Halvorsen
A Visit to the Summer Mountain Pasture Bull
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 4 Grieg
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 Tchaikovsky

Winter Pops Concert - February 7
Guest Conductor: John Thomson
Guest Artists: The Stoneback Brass and the Stoneback Sisters, Trumpet Ensembles


Dordt College Jazz Band, Northwestern College Jazz Band

Obertura from 'Los Esclavos Felices' Arriaga
Intermedio from 'La Boda de Luis Alonso' Gimenez
Spanish Dance No. 1 Falla
Bugler's Holiday Anderson
Flight of the Bumblebee arr. Koff
Por la Espana Cani arr. Mendez

Spring Concert - April 21
Guest Conductors: Jungho Kim, Bradley Miedema


Guest Artist: Gary Reeves

Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Brahms
Villanelle for Horn and Orchestra Dukas
Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner
Symphony No. 8, Op. 88 Dvorak

2007/08 Season of Harmony

Fall Concert - November 27
Guest Artist: Martha Councell, Flute

Fanfare from 'La Peri' Dukas
Flute Concerto in G Stamitz
Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 Enesco
Symphony No. 5, Op. 107, "Reformation" Mendelssohn

Winter Pops - February 2
Guest Artists: Realtime A Cappella Quartet

Balley Music from 'Faust' Gounod
Pavanne Gould
My Funny Valentine Rodgers
Rocky Top Bryant
Superman Returns Williams
Georgia on My Mind Carmichael
Loch Lomond traditional Scottish
Keep the Whole World Singing Dirkema

Spring Concert - April 19
Guest Artist: Maxim Koslov

Egmont Overture Beethoven
Variations on a Rococo Theme Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 3 (Organ) Saint-Saëns

2006/07 Musical Fantasies

Fall Concert - November 7
Guest Artist: David Burgess, Guitar

Patrie! Bizet
Fantasia para un Gentilhombre Rodrigo
Symphony No. 32 Mozart
"Carmen" Suite No. 1 Bizet

Winter Pops - February 3
Guest Artist: David Gluck, Percussion/Composer
Dordt College Jazz Band, Northwestern College Jazz Band

Three Dances from the 'Gayne' Ballet Khachaturian
Movie Spectacular arr. Bocook
Blue Tango Anderson
Nagaina's Nemesis
Premiere performance of this commissioned work		 Gluck

Spring Concert - April 24
Guest Artists: Robert Horton, Organ
Stephen Yarbrough, Composer

Fanfare from 'Also Sprach Zarathustra'

Strauss
Credo Victoria
Serenade No. 1, mvt 1 Brahms
Fantasy for Organ and Orchestra
Premiere performance of this commissioned work 		Yarbrough
Death and Transfiguration Strauss
The Turtle Dove Cassler

 

2005/06 Magnificent Musical Masterpieces

Fall Concert - November 15
The Americans
Guest Artist: Thomas Alexander, Piano

Buckaroo Holiday from 'Rodeo' Copland
Selections from 'Porgy and Bess' Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin
Symphony No. 2 (Romantic) Hanson

Winter Pops - February 5
Broadway on Parade
Guest Show Choirs from Le Mars High School,
MOC-Floyd Valley High School, Sioux Center High School

Slavonic Dance, Op. 46 No.7 Dvorak
Broadway on Parade arr. Sayre
Selections from 'Oklahoma' arr. Rosenhaus
'Oliver' Selections arr. Reed
Selections from 'A Chorus Line' Hamlisch
A Symphonic Portrait Berlin
Give My Regards to Broadway Cohan

April 7 GUEST CONCERT

Rhythm & Brass

Fantasie in C minor J.S. Bach
Norwegian Wood Lennon/McCartney arr. Gluck
The Tao of "Heavy D" Richardson
Two Studies in English Folk Song Williams, arr. Villarubia
Ballet and Film Music Shostakovich, arr. Villarrubia
Awakenings (Tuesday Morning) Shuhan
Selected Music of:
The Beatles
Hank Williams
Led Zeppelin
Duke Ellington
Pink Floyd
Louis Armstrong
Stevie Wonder

Spring Concert - April 11
The Russians
Guest Artist: Elayna Duitman-Verhage, Violin
Guest Choirs from Northwestern College,
Sioux County Oratorio, Dordt College

Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture

Glinka
Adagio from 'Spartacus' Khachaturian
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op.19 Prokofiev
Berceuse and Finale from 'Firebird' Stravinsky
Polovtsian Dances from 'Prince Igor' Borodin

 

2004/05 Kaleidoscope of Sound

Fall Concert - November 16
Guest Artists: Emily Monica Mitzel, Flute and Jessica Shoemaker, Piano

Overture to 'The Barber of Seville' Rossini
Concerto No. 9 for Flute and Orchestra Devienne
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor (Unfinished) Schubert
Piano Concerto in A Minor Grieg
Háry János Suite Kodaly

Winter Pops - February 5
Guest Artists: The Brass Section, The Siouxland Boys Choir

Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld Offenbach
Highlights from Harry Potter Williams/Story
Medley from Aladdin arr. Moss
A Tribute to MGM arr. Nagle
Sonata for Two Trumpets and Brass Purcell/Mills
Highlights from Phantom of the Opera Webber
Somewhere Out There from American Tale arr. Chinn
Newsies Menken/Emerson
Believe from The Polar Express arr. Huff
Pirates of the Caribbean Badelt/Ricketts
Chicago Ebb & Kander/Lopez
The Sound of Music Rodgers & Hammerstein/Bennett

April 13 GUEST CONCERT

The Omaha Symphony Chamber Orchestra
Conductor, Ernest Richardson

Spring Concert - April 26
Guest Artists: James Buswell, Violin and Carol Ou, Cello

La Muse et le Poéte Saint-Saëns
Havanaise Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 5 in e minor Tchaikovsky

 

2003/04 Fantastic Musical Journeys

Fall Concert - November 18

Symphony 104 (London) Haydn
Walk to the Paradise Garden Delius
Evening Prayer from 'Hansel & Gretel' Humperdinck
The Planets (Mars, Saturn, Jupiter) Holst

Winter Pops - January 31
Guest Artist: Rex Richardson, Trumpet

Guest Jazz Bands from
Sioux Center Community High School, MOC-FV Community High School
Northwestern College, Dordt College

Concerto for Trumpet Tartini
The Hollow Men Persichetti
Marche Militaire Francaise Saint-Saëns
Selections from 'Les Mis' Schonberg/Lowden
Summon the Heroes Williams/Custer

March 6 GUEST CONCERT

The St. Olaf Orchestra
Conductor, Steven Amundson

Spring Concert - April 29

Guest Artist: Emily Lodine, Mezzo-soprano

Overture to 'The Marriage of Figaro' Mozart
Der Wesendonck Lieder Wagner
Symphony No. 2* (American Premiere) Villem Kapp

2002/03 Pictures Old and New

Fall Concert - November 12
Pictures from the Old World

Guest Artists: Teresa Walters, piano

Hungarian Dances 5 & 6 Brahms
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana Mascagni
Lieutenant Kije Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor) Beethoven

Winter Pops - January 18
Portraits of Patriotism!

Guest Artists: The Valley Male Chorus and the Sioux Valley Singers

America the Beautiful
Landsighting by Grieg
Armed Forces Salute
Hymn to the Fallen by John Williams
God Bless America
and more

March 25 7:30 GUEST CONCERT

The Omaha Symphony
Conductor, Victor Yampolsky

Spring Concert - April 15
Photographs from the New World!

Alleluias for Orchestra Yarbrough
An Outdoor Overture Copland
The New World Symphony Dvorak

2001/02 A SEASON OF NEW BEGINNINGS

Fall Concert - November 7
Rivers, Horses, and Other Suprises!

Guest Artists: Erika Van Den Hul, violin and Grace Kim, piano

Light Cavalry Overture von Suppe
Introduction and Rondo Capricioso Saint-Saëns
Suprise Symphony (No. 94) Haydn
Piano Concerto No 2, mvt 1 Rachmaninoff
The Moldau Smetana

Nov 27 7:30 GUEST CONCERT

The Omaha Symphony Chamber Orchestra
NISO strings join to play Adagio for Strings by Barber

Winter Pops - January 26
Gershwin and All that Jazz!

Guest Artist: Thomas Brantley, trombone
Conductor, Timothy McGarvey
Area Jazz Bands

Trombone Opener arr. Moore
Selections from Porgy and Bess arr. Sayre
Trombone Concertino David
Gershwin in Concert arr. Sayre

Spring Concert - May 1
Orchestra Showcase!

Distinguished Guest Conductor: Henry Charles Smith

Consecration of the House Overture Beethoven
Pavanne Ravel
Symphony No. 2 Sibelius

2000/01 Season AN INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION...

Fall Concert - November 7
...to Holland!
Guest Artists: Elayna Duitman Verhage, violin and Zeger Verhage, clarinet

Roman Carnival Overture Berlioz
Concerto for Clarinet in A Mozart
Conzon duodecimi toni Gabrieli
Violin Concerto in d Sibelius

Winter Pops Concert - February 3
...to Folk Music of Other Lands!

The Siouxland Boys Choir, Joan Van Holland, conductor,
Joan Van Holland, Soprano and Norman Grimm, Tenor

Dance of the Commedians Smetana
Broadway on Parade  
Themes from 'Fiddler on the Roof'  
Theme from 'New York, New York'  

Spring Concert - April 24
...to Korea!
Guest Artists: Seo Kyoung-Suk, soprano and Kwag Sung-Sup, tenor
and an Opera Chorus

Symphony No. 8 Dvorak
* Fantasie for Flute and Chamber Orchestra Fauré
Dove Sono from Figaro Mozart
Che gelida manina from La Boheme Puccini
O soave fanciulla from La Boheme Puccini
Parigi, o cara from La Traviata Verdi
Recondita armonia from Tosca Puccini
D'amor sull' ali rosee from Il trovatore Verdi
Nessun dorma from Turandot Puccini
Final chorus from Turandot Puccini
Brindisi from La Traviata Verdi

1999/00 SeasonSHOWCASING...

Fall Concert - November 9
...The Music of Spain and Latin America!

Guest Artist: David Burgess, guitar

Ritual Fire Dance de Falla
Concierto de Aranjuez Rodrigo
Malagueña Lecuona
Carmen Suite No. 1 Bizet
Danzón No. 2 Marquéz

Winter Pops Concert - February 5
...A Trumpet Virtuoso!

Guest Jazz Bands from MOC-FV High School,
Sioux Center Community High School, Northwestern College, Dordt College

Hungarian March Berlioz
Trumpet Concerto in Eb Hummel
Mack the Knife Weill/Sayre
Granada Lara/Sayre
Jazz Bands with Rex  

Spring Concert - April 18
...Orchestra Soloists!

Guest Artists: Charles Dibley, tuba; John Erickson, flute; Berta Graham, oboe;
Karen DeMol, clarinet; Julie Hulstein, French horn; Loretta Thomas, bassoon

Concerto in a for Violin, mvt. I (arr for tuba) Bach/Dibley
* Fantasie for Flute and Chamber Orchestra Fauré
Sinfonia Concertante, mvt. I Mozart
Symphony No. 4 Tchaikovsky
*conducted by Assistant Conductor Tim McGarvey  

1998/99 SeasonCATCH THE SPIRIT...

Fall Concert - November 18
...of Russian Music!

Student Artist: Jessica Shoemaker, piano
Guest Artist: Eric Grossman, violin

Gayne: Sabre Dance Khachaturian
Piano Concerto No. 3, mvt 1 Kabalevsky
Violin Concerto Glazunov
Symphony No. 2 Borodin

Winter Pops Concert - February 13
...of the American Spiritual!

Guest Choir: The Valley Male Chorus

Hungarian Dances 5 and 6 Brahms
Gershwin in Concert Gershwin/Sayre
When the Saints and Gimme That Old Time arr David Itkin
Shall We Gather and Down By the Riverside arr David Itkin
Swing Low Sweet Chariot arr David Itkin
An American Spiritual Festival Rosenhaus

Spring Concert - April 20
...of British Music and More!

Guest Artist: Emily Lodine, mezzo-soprano

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 Elgar
Five Variants on 'Dives and Lazarus' Vaughan Williams
Overture to 'Der Freischütz von Weber
*Scherzo alla Marcia Vaughan Williams
Sea Pictures Elgar
*conducted by Assistant Conductor Tim McGarvey  

1997-98 SeasonA YEAR OF CELEBRATION!

Fall Concert - November 18
Celebrate American Music!

*American Salute Gould
Prairie Night & Celebration Copland
The Plow That Broke The Plains Thomson
Hoe-Down Copland
Symphony No. 2 (Romatic) Hanson
*conducted by Assistant Conductor Tim McGarvey  

Winter Pops Concert - January 31
Celebrate Jazz with Rhythm & Brass!

Internationally-recognized artists: Rhythm & Brass
Duke Ellington Tribute  
Bolero Ravel

Spring Concert - April 21
Celebrate the Orchestra!

Egmont Overture Beethoven
An Outdoor Overture Copland
Berceuse and Final from 'Firebird' Stravinsky
Symphony No. 32 Mozart
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 Bizet

1996-97 Season A BANNER YEAR!

Fall Concert - November 19

Guest choirs: The Sioux County Oratorio Chorus & The Unity High School Chamber Singers

Zadok the Priest Handel
The White Peacock Griffes
Karelia Suite Sibelius
The Pines of Rome Respighi

Winter Pops Concert - February 15
Movie Music Classics with a "Tribute to Music Educators"

Dances with Wolves Jurassic Park
Batman Star Wars
2001 A Space Odyssey Robin Hood
The Pink Panther Mr. Holland's Opus

Spring Concert - April 29

Internationally-recognized artist: Chiu-Ling Lin, piano
*Chester Schuman
Piano Concerto in Eb (K. 271) Mozart
Symphony No. 2 in D Major Brahms
*conducted by assistant conductor, Tim McGarvey  

1995-96 Season SPOTLIGHT ON TALENT!

Fall Concert - November 14

Student Artists: Jennifer Van Den Hul, viola; Erika Van Den Hul, violin; Grace Kim, piano
Guest Choirs: The Dordt College Concert Choir and Chorale-- Benjamin Kornelis, conductor

Slavonic Dances, opus 46 No. VII Dvorak
Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished), mvt. I Schubert
Piano Concerto in A Minor, mvt. I Grieg
Sinfonia Concertante in Eb (K. 364), mvt. I Mozart
Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor", No. 17 Borodin

Winter Pops Concert - February 17
Broadway Classics with The Siouxland Boys Choir and Joan Van Holland, soprano

Fiddler on the Roof Give My Regards to Broadway
Oklahoma! Sound of Music
A Tribute to Lerner and Loewe Phantom of the Opera
Oliver  

Spring Concert - April 24

Guest Artist: Elayna Duitman, violin

*Overture for the End of a Century Larsen
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor Bruch
Symphony No. 3 in G Minor (Organ) Saint-Saëns
   
* conducted by assistant conductor, Tim McGarvey  

1994-95 Season

Fall Concert - November 15 The Five-Year Anniversary Celebration of Orchestranimals

Student Artists: Adam Grimm and Ryan Wynia, boy sopranos
Guest Composer: Irene Eugen-Raisen
Narrator: John Hofland
Plus many orchestral soloists

Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 Enesco
Hansel and Gretel--Evening Prayer and Dream Humperdink
Orchestranimals Grieg
Sinfonia Concertante in Eb (K. 364), mvt. I Mozart
Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor", No. 17 Borodin

Winter Pops Concert - February 11

Sweets and Suites
A Night in Old Vienna

Spring Concert - April 26

Guest Artists: The Sioux County Brass Quintet

Canzon duodecimi toni Gabrieli
Overture to 'Poet and Peasant' (Brass Quintet) von Suppe/Mills
Intermezzo from 'Cavalleric Rusticana Mascagni
Lieutenant Kije Suite Prokofiev
Fanfare from 'La peri' (Brass Quintet) Dukas
La Rejouissance from 'Water Music' (Brass Quintet) Handel/Siepp
Symphony No. 8 in F Major Beethoven

1993-94 Season

Fall Concert - November 16

Guest Artist: Roy Samuelsen, bass.
Guest Choirs: Sioux Valley Singers, Lyle Kroon director and the Dordt College Male Chorus, Dale Grotenhuis director.
Also a special appearance by the SCO flute quartet: Lavila Nelson, John Erickson, Kathy Jimenez, and Lisa Vander Wilt

Hoberg Suite Prelude - Allegro Vivace Grieg
Two Songs - The Journey Home , A Vision Grieg
Peer Gynt Orchestra Suites Grieg
Sigurd Jorsalfar Grieg
Rigaudon  Grieg
Three Songs Grieg
Landsighting (Landkjending) Grieg

Winter Pops Concert - February 19

Suites and Sweets Pops in the Sioux Center Mall

Spring Concert - April 24

PATRIE! Overture Dramatique Bizet
Symphony No. 12 in E Major Haydn
*Sheep May Safely Graze Bach
Hary Janos Suite Kodaly
* conducted by assistant conductor, Tim McGarvey  

1992-93 Season

Fall Concert - November 10

Guest Artists:Scott Olson, Richard Bogenrief, Trumpets; Simon du Toit, Jerelyn Schelhass, David Schelhass,
Presenters of Shakespere's tale; and the Sioux County Brass Quintet.

Concerto for Two Trumpets Vivaldi
The Walk to the Paradise Garden Delius
Overture to: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai
Quintet No. 2 Movment II - March Ewald
Symphony No. 36 "Linz" Mozart

Winter Pops Concert - February 13

Valentine Suites and Sweets Pops in the Sioux Center Mall
with the Dordt College Male Chorus and the Sioux County Brass Quintet.

Spring Concert - April 13

Guest Artist: Elayna Duitman, violin

Violin Concerto No. 2 in d minor Wieniawski
Symphony No. 9 in e minor (from the "New World) Dvorak

1991-92 Season
guest conductor, Peter Van Ooyen

Fall Concert - November 5

Overture to "Idomeneo" Mozart
Soiree Musicales (Five Movements from Rossini) Britten
Peterloo (Overture for Orchestra) Arnold
Suite from "The River" Thomson

Winter Pops Concert - February 8

Valentine Sweets and Suites In the Sioux Center Library with Lisa Vander Vliet,
Paul and Jeff Beekhuizen, Leah Schreurs and Elayna Duitman.

Spring Concert - April 14

Guest Artist: Chiu-Ling Lin, Piano

Eight Russian Folk Songs op. 58 Liadov
Pavane Faure
Two Hungarian Dances Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 18 Rachmaninoff

1990-91 Season

Fall Concert - November 14

Overture to "Cosi fan Tutti" Mozart
Overture to "der Freischutz von Weber
Overture to "The Barber of Seville" Rossini
Scherzo [Sioux County Brass Quintet] Cheetham
Suite from the Water Music Handel
Jubilee Nelson

Winter Pops Concert - February 8

Valentine Sweets and Suites In the Sioux Center Library with
Lisa Duitman, Karen De Mol, Lorretta Thomas and Sue Blom

Spring Concert - April 14

Guest Artist: James Buswell, vioin

Scherzo all Marcia for 16 Wind Intruments Vaughan Williams
Concerto No. 1 in A Major Saint-Saëns
Introduction and Rondo Capriccio Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 5 in d minor, "Reformation" Mendelssohn

1989-90 Season

Fall Concert - November 14

Student Artists: Carmen Klungel, Brad Miedema, Lisa Van Vuuren and Elayna Duitman, violin

The Double Violin Concerto in D Minor Bach
The Unfinished Symphony Schubert
The Light Cavalry Overture Suppe
Orchestranimals Eugen

Pops Concert - February 9

Annual Sweets and Suites in the Sioux Center Library, "A Night in Old Vienna"

Spring Concert - April 17

Guest Artist: Herbert Winslow, French Horn

Overture to "Titus" Mozart
Horn Concerto No. 1 in Eb Major Strauss
The Firebird Suite Stravinsky
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor Beethoven

1988-89 Season

Fall Concert - November 16

Sonata from "Die Bankelsangerlieder" anonymous
Gayne: Three Pieces Khachaturian
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 Bizet
Symphony No. 104 in D Major (London) Haydn

Spring Concert - April 17

An Outdoor Adventure Copland
Night on Bald Mountain Mussorgsky
The Emperor Waltzes Strauss
Symphony No. 8 in G. Major Dvorak

1987-88 Season

Fall Concert - November 11

Guest Artist, Sophia Silivos, violin

American Salute Gould
The Plaw That Broke the Plains Thomson
Movements from "Billy the Kid" and "Rodea" Copland
Violin Concerto in e minor Mendelssohn
Hungarian March Berlioz

Spring Concert - April 21

Fanfare from "La Peri" Dukas
Adagio for Strings Barber
Symphony No. 32 in G Major Mozart
Symphony No. 5 in e minor, Op. 64 Tchaikovsky

1986-87 Season

Fall Concert - November 12

Slovanic Dances No. 8 Dvorak
Symphony No. 94 (Surprise) Haydn
Serenade No. 1 (selected movements) Brahms
Finlandia Sibelius

Spring Concert - April 18

Guest Choir: Sioux County Oratorio Chorus

Symphony No. 5 in B flat Schubert
Messiah (selections from parts II and III) Handel