HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Carolyn Kuan, music director
HOLIDAY CIRQUE!
Saturday, December 16, 2023 / 3:00 p.m.
Mortensen Hall, The Bushnell Center
for the Performing Arts
ADAM BOYLES, conductor
CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE, guest performers
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Arr. Bob Krogstad |
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The Bells of Christmas |
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Orchestra Only |
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Vaughan Williams |
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Fantasia on Greensleeves |
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Aubrey Lawrence-Aerial Lyra |
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Anderson |
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Sleigh Ride |
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Vladimir Tsarkov - Juggling Rings |
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Respighi-Rossini |
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Can Can from The Magic Toy Shop |
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Irina Burdetsy – Ribbon Dance |
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Bizet |
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L”Arlesienne Suite No. 2, IV Farandole |
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Aleksandr Deev – Spinning Shapes |
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Offenbach |
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Overture to Orpheus |
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Orchestra Only |
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Case |
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Rocket Sleigh |
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Brandon Grimm – Aerial Pole |
INTERMISSION |
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Arr. Sheldon |
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A Most Wonderful Christmas |
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Orchestra Only |
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Gardel |
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Por Una Cabezza from Scent of a Woman |
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Nelson Pivaral & Goulia Rozyeva-Adagio |
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Ellington-Tyzik |
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Antheil: Hot Time Dance |
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Aleksandr Deev – Cyr Wheel |
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Tchaikovsky |
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Trepak from The Nutcracker |
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Vladimir Tsarkov – Electric Juggling |
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Rimsky-Korsakov |
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Danse des Buffons from The Snow Maiden |
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Irina Burdetsky – Hula Hoops |
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Silvestri |
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Polar Express Suite |
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Orchestra Only |
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Rimsky-Korsakov |
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Capriccio Espagnol IV & V Scena E Canto Gitano |
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Brandon Grimm & Aubrey Lawrence – Aerial Duo on Fabrics |
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Anderson |
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Sleigh Ride (finale with bows) |
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CIRQUE de la Symphonie artists |
The post of Music Director is endowed by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation.
We kindly request that you refrain from using flash photography and video recording during the performance, however we encourage you take photos and share them on your favorite social media platforms- be sure to tag us so we can join in on the excitement!
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Specialty Rigging by United Staging & Rigging, LLC
Cirque de la Symphonie is an exciting production designed to bring the magic of cirque to the music hall. For more than 15 years, it has thrilled and bedazzled veteran concert goers and new patrons as they see accomplished aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers, and strongmen perform to live symphony music. They include world record holders, gold-medal winners of international competitions, Olympians and some of the most experienced cirque talent ever seen. Their performances are uniquely adapted to stage accommodations shared with the symphony, and each artist’s performance is choreographed to the music arranged in collaboration with the maestro. When the artists of Cirque de la Symphonie perform in front of the full orchestra, an incredible fusion of these two great art forms takes place. The aerialists and acrobats turn the concert into a three-dimensional entertainment extravaganza, and the orchestra seems to play with enhanced enthusiasm.
