About The Salem Philharmonic Orchestra
Salem Philharmonic OrchestraDating from about 1904, the city of Salem has had the good fortune to have available to th egeneral public a series of free concerts presented by a professional orchestra during the Winter months of January and February. These concerts have been jointly sponsored at various times by the Salem Trust Fund Commission, The Salem YMCA, The Music Performance Trust Funds of New York, and more recently, The Salem Cultural Council. Read more ...
The Salem Philharmonic Orchestra
  • 2013 Winter Season Concert Schedule
    All concerts are held Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. at Salem High School, 77 Willson Street, Salem, MA. Click here for directions.
    This is Alan Hawryluk's 46th year as Conductor, and our 108th season of concerts.

    • January 6, 2013:
      Chia-Jung Tsay, Piano soloist
      Emperor Concerto - Beethoven
    • January 13, 2013:
      Judith Braude, Flute
      Kathryn Lordan, Soprano
    • January 20, 2013:
      Lisa Brooke, Violin
      Jean Pocius, Trumpet
    • January 27, 2013:
      Colin Levin, Baritone
      The Paul Madore Chorale
      Opera excerpt by Jeff Brody
      "A Portrait of Dorian Gray"
      The Salem High School Symphony
  • This program is supported in part by a grant from the Salem Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency and from a generous grant from the Music Drives Us Foundation
The Salem Philharmonic Orchestra Winter Concert Series

The third of the 2013 Salem Philharmonic Orchestra Winter Concert Series will be held Sunday, January 20th, at Salem High School Auditorium, 77 Willson Street. Concerts are free to the public, are handicap accessible. The performance starts at 3:30 PM.

The concert features a diverse program played by a 45 piece orchestra of talented, mostly professional musicians, along with some selected amateurs and a guest soloist featured at each concert. Conducting will be Alan Hawryluk, conductor of the orchestra for the past 47 years.

This week’s concert features Lisa Brooke on violin, and Jeanne Gabriel Pocius Dorismond on trumpet. Praised for her "unusually intelligent and sensitive playing", Lisa Brooke is teaching violin and viola at Salem State University, and performed in NYC with the Orchestra of Saint Lukes', the NY Pops, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Queens Symphony Opera Orchestra, Eve Queller Opera and the American Composer's Orchestra, and has toured the US, Spain, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong with numerous ensembles. She has toured Spain with Solisti of the Metropolitan Opera, and worked under James Levine and Leonard Bernstein in the Music for Life Concerts, Carnegie Hall.

Jeanne Gabriel Pocius Dorismond has performed as a soloist in both classical and jazz venues throughout the United States, Canada, Italy and the Caribbean. Author of the internationally acclaimed trumpet textbook, "Trumpeting By Nature", she has students on six of the seven continents, and has served as a professor of music in Haiti since the summer of 2008. Jeanne is also founder and president of the international charity "Instrumental Change, Inc." which provides musical instruments and supplies to music students and professionals in Haiti, Africa, South America and in needy areas of the United States.

We welcome one and all to participate in this grand Salem tradition and enjoy the exceptional performances of our esteemed local orchestra, one of the great cultural resources that makes the city of Salem such an exciting place.

The program for the concert is as follows:

  • Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla / M. Glinka
    Finlandia / J. Sibelius
  • Concerto in a minor for violin and orchestra / J. S. Bach
    Lisa Brooke, violin
  • Chariots of Fire / Vangelis
  • Brandenburgh Concerto No. 2 / J.S. Bach
    Jeanne Pocius Dorismond, Trumpet
    Lisa Brooke, violin
    Carolyn Colby, flute
    Kathy DiCola, oboe
  • Latibonito songs of Haiti arr. by Julio Ravine
    Trumpet Blues and Cantabile / Harry James and Jack Matthis
  • Thunder and Lighting Polka / J Strauss
    March Militaire Francaise / Saint Saens

The fourth of the 2013 Salem Philharmonic Orchestra Winter Concert Series will be held Sunday, January 27th, at Salem High School Auditorium, 77 Willson Street. Concerts are free to the public, are handicap accessible. The performance starts at 3:30 PM.

The concert features a diverse program played by a 45 piece orchestra of talented, mostly professional musicians, along with some selected amateurs and a guest soloist featured at each concert. Conducting will be Alan Hawryluk, conductor of the orchestra for the past 47 years.

This week’s concert features Colin Levin/Baritone, The Paul Madore Chorale and the Salem High School Symphony.

We welcome one and all to participate in this grand Salem tradition and enjoy the exceptional performances of our esteemed local orchestra, one of the great cultural resources that makes the city of Salem such an exciting place.

Program
  • Overture to Die Meistersinger / R. Wagner
  • Merry Widow Waltz / F. Lehar
  • Silvio's Aria from Pagliacci / R. Leoncavallo
  • Largo al Factotum from Barber of Seville / G. Rossini
  • If I Loved You from Carousel / R. Rodgers
    Colin Levin, Baritone
  • Selections from Les Miserables / C. Schonberg
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray for Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra / Jeffrey Brody
  • Va, Pensiero from Nabucco / G. Verdi
  • Armed Forces Salute arr. by / R. Lowden
  • The Land of The Rising Sun / M. Lortz
    Salem High School Symphony Brian Ferris, Koto Soloist
  • Themes from Concerto in A Minor A Vivaldi arr. / R. Frost
  • Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream / F. Mendelssohn arr. R. Meyer
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic arr. / J. Wilhousky
    combined orchestras
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