Giuseppe Verdi - Overture to Nabucco

Wu Zuqiang, Liu Dehai, and Wang Yanqiao - Little Sisters of the Grassland

Libby Larsen - Raspberry Island Dreaming

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien

featuring Angela Bolon, pipa, and Karen Albert, mezzo-soprano

Chambers: World Premiere of DCO Commissioned Work

Beethoven: Symphony no. 9

featuring singers from the Ann Arbor Civic Chorus and the Dexter Community Choir

Karen TenBrink, director

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 1, Shuya Zheng, piano

Bernstein: Candide Overture

Price: Ethiopia's Shadow in America

C. Brubeck: Blues Suite for Harmonica and Orchestra

featuring Peter "Madcat" Ruth, harmonica

Coleridge-Taylor: Christmas Overture

Holst: St. Paul's Suite

Anderson: Sleigh Ride and A Christmas Festival

Jaffe: Symph-Hanukkah

Lovrien: Minor Alterations (Christmas Through the Looking Glass)

and other Holiday favorites

featuring the Dexter High School Chamber Orchestra

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture

Haydn: Cello Concerto no. 2 in D major

Boyd: House of Fountains

Respighi: Pines of Rome

featuring Thor Sigurdson, cello

Are you interested to learn more about the DCO? Has it been a little while since you picked up that instrument you long to play? Wondering if you still remember how to read music?

Join the DCO for a casual and musical evening of sight reading and connect with community members. All are welcome! This free event takes place on Wednesday, August 9th at the Dexter American Legion Post 557. Learn more and sign up here!

Please bring a stand, chairs are provided.

We hope to see you there!

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Let us know what instrument you play so we can make sure all the parts are covered. Open to everyone, member or not. The music for July 12 is Mozart: Overture to Idomeneo, Tchaikovsky: Suite no. 4 “Mozartiana”, and Beethoven: Symphony no. 2.

This is a FREE event - we will not ask for your credit card number to participate in our Summer Sightreading Series!

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The Dexter Community Orchestra will be performing Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” at our Spring concert on May 7.

featuring - 2023 DCO Student Concerto Competition Winner & Women of the Dexter Community Choir

Nathan Leung, Competition Winner

Holst - The Planets

Glazunov - Saxophone Concerto

featuring Karen Albert, mezzo-soprano

Beethoven - Symphony no. 6

Libby Larsen - Raspberry Island Dreaming

Liszt - Les Préludes

feat. Ella Saputra, violin - winner of the 2022 Youth Artist Competition

Quinn Mason - Christmas Eve Festivities

Rimsky-Korsakov - Suite from The Snow Maiden

Mozart - Violin Concerto no. 3, 1st mvt

Peter Jaffe - Symph-Hanukkah

Anderson - Sleigh Ride and A Christmas Festival

and other assorted Holiday selections

featuring Beth Dixon, piano

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto no. 3

Mussorgsky/Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition

featuring Saline High School and Skyline High School Orchestras

Mozart - Magic Flute Overture

Florence Price - Adoration

Grieg - Selections from Peer Gynt

Join us for an afternoon of holiday classics! Check back soon for a list of music that will be performed.