Most overtures act as musical synopsis hinting at themes or motives to come. Others are completely unique and have little if any reference to the forthcoming program. This performance will feature some of the most well-known overtures from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro to Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story.

Fanny Mendelssohn Overture in C Major
Leonard Bernstein Overture to West Side Story arr. Peress
Gioachino Rossini Overture to William Tell
Wolfgang Mozart Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Scott Joplin Overture to Treemonisha
Quinn Mason Toast of the Town
Pietro Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana
Johannes Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Guiseppe Verdi Overture to Nabucco