Sponsored by the Wright State University School of Fine and Performing Arts
With additional funding from the Ohio Arts Council
Every Saturday morning, Discover Classical presents recorded concerts by many of the region's finest performing arts ensembles, like the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Bach Society of Dayton, Chamber Music Yellow Springs and others.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra
Young People's Concert
Neal Gittleman, conductor
Will Hemmelgarn, clarinet
Gabrielle Flannery, soprano; Isabel Randall, mezzo-soprano; Carl Rosenthal, tenor; Randell McGee, baritone
"Pure Imagination"
Recorded October 30, 2024, at the Schuster Center
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Concertino in E-flat Major, Op.26
Anthony Newley: "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Arthur Sullivan: "Modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Bedrich Smetana: The Moldau
Bach Society of Dayton
David Crean, director; R. Alan Kimbrough, accompanist
Kettering Children's Choir Chorale
Bruce Swank, director; Linda Kessler, accompanist
Kettering Advent Ringers
Joan Ulloth Dorgan, director
Rachel Lammi, organ; Pam Rauch, flute; Jon Blaza, Lonnie Dorgan and Rachel Lammi, percussion
"Sweet Sounds of the Holidays"
Recorded December 3, 2023, at Kettering Adventist Church
Henry Gauntlett (arranged by David Willcocks): Once in Royal David’s City
Traditional Carols (arranged by Lloyd Larson): Noel Festival
Traditional English (arranged by Stephen Hatfield): The Boar's Head Carol
Austrian Carol (arranged by Norman Luboff): Still, Still, Still
English Carol (arranged by Gerald Near): My Dancing Day
Rex Isenberg: Ravta et rivam
Traditional Hebrew (arranged by Betty Bertaux): S'vivon
Traditional African American Spiritual (arranged by Carolyn Jennings): Go Tell It on the Mountain
Traditional African American Spiritual (arranged by Robert L. Jefferson): Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
Traditional African American Spiritual (arranged by Ruth Elaine Schram): Children, Go Where I Send Thee
Felix Mendelssohn (arranged by David Willcocks): Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Traditional Andalusian Villancico (arranged by Ruth Morris Gray): Gatatumba
Traditional Polish Carol (arranged by Ruth Dwyer and Martin Ellis): Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
Joan Beckow: Oseh Shalom (A Prayer for Peace)
Andy Beck: Under Winter Moon
Greg Gilpin: This Twenty-Five of December
Traditional German Carol (arranged by Linda Steen Spevacek): Kling, Glockchen
Traditional English (arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams): O Little Town of Bethlehem
Edmund Sears (arranged by Sandra Eithun): It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Michael Praetorius: Psallite (Singt und klingt!)
Traditional German (arranged by Dick Hattershire): Es ist ein Ros Entsprungen
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus Natus Est
John Francis Wade (arranged by David Willcocks): O Come, All Ye Faithful
Franz Xaver Gruber (arranged by Trevor Manor): Silent Night
Eleanor Farjeon (arranged by Craig Courtney): People, Look East
Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
Patrick Reynolds, conductor
"Winter Concert"
Recorded December 1, 2024, at the Roger Glass Center for the Arts
Edward "Duke" Ellington: Three Black Kings - I. The Magi and III. Martin Luther King
Kamille Austin: Thee Surrender
Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 "From the New World"