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With additional funding from the Ohio Arts Council
Live & Local
SATURDAYS @ 10AM and SUNDAYS @ 8PM
Every weekend, 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.
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5/24
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Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra
Keitaro Harada, conductor
Zulfiya Bashirova, violin
"An American Portrait"
Recorded in March 2026 at the Schuster Center
George Gershwin: An American in Paris
William Bolcom: Violin Concerto
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
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5/30
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Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
Maureen Hickey Haitch and Keitaro Harada, conductors
"Rhythms of Wonder: United by the Beat"
Recorded March 8, 2026, at the Schuster Center
Antonin Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Aram Khachaturian: Suite from Masquerade
Manuel de Falla: Danza from The Three Cornered Hat
"From Sea to Shining Sea"
Recorded May 3, 2026, at the Schuster Center
William C. White: Acadia Fanfare
Florence Price: Dances in the Canebrakes
Leonard Bernstein: Selections from West Side Story
Ferde Grofe: Mississippi Suite
Aaron Copland: Hoe-Down from Rodeo
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5/31
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Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
Maureen Hickey Haitch and Keitaro Harada, conductors
"Rhythms of Wonder: United by the Beat"
Recorded March 8, 2026, at the Schuster Center
Antonin Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Aram Khachaturian: Suite from Masquerade
Manuel de Falla: Danza from The Three Cornered Hat
"From Sea to Shining Sea"
Recorded May 3, 2026, at the Schuster Center
William C. White: Acadia Fanfare
Florence Price: Dances in the Canebrakes
Leonard Bernstein: Selections from West Side Story
Ferde Grofe: Mississippi Suite
Aaron Copland: Hoe-Down from Rodeo
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6/6
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Chamber Music Yellow Springs
Annual Competition for Emerging Professional Ensembles
Recorded April 26, 2026, at First Presbyterian Church of Yellow Springs
Trio Timia
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Bohuslav Martinu: Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor
Trio Caspar
Igor Stravinsky: Selections from Histoire du Soldat
Libby Larsen: Slang
Robert Schumann: Marchenerzahlungen - III. and IV.
Paul Schoenfeld: Trio
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6/7
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Chamber Music Yellow Springs
Annual Competition for Emerging Professional Ensembles
Recorded April 26, 2026, at First Presbyterian Church of Yellow Springs
Trio Timia
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Bohuslav Martinu: Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor
Trio Caspar
Igor Stravinsky: Selections from Histoire du Soldat
Libby Larsen: Slang
Robert Schumann: Marchenerzahlungen - III. and IV.
Paul Schoenfeld: Trio
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6/13
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Musica
Ginger Minneman, director
Steven Aldredge, accompanist
Tom Sobieski, Cynthia Schindler, William Ayers, Cyerra Pemberton, Gary Brooks and Wes Alexander, soloists
"American Tapestry"
Recorded May 3, 2026, the Dayton Art Institute
Aaron Copland (arranged by Glenn Koponen): Zion's Walls
Steven Aldredge: A Few More Years May Roll
Steven Aldredge: Hymn from "Variations for Violin and Piano"
Richard Hundley: The Astronomers (An Epitaph)
Samuel Barber: Under the Willow Tree
19th Century Shaker Hymn: Lay Me Low
Carlisle Floyd: The Trees on the Mountain
Whitney Perez: Spring in the Hollow
Stephen C. Foster: Some Folks Do
Stephen Sondheim (arranged by Robert Page): Sondheim Medley
Simon and Garfunkel: The Sound of Silence
Frank Wildhorn: Tell My Father
Traditional Spiritual (arranged by Shawn Kirchner): O, What a Beautiful City