Music in the Aurora Symphony Orchestra’s 2014-15 season will include selections by classical stalwarts like Beethoven and Mozarts as well as modern composers like Gershwin and Weber.
ASO officials will reveal the season for the upcoming season during the final show of its 2013-14 lineup this weekend. ASO conductor Norman Gamboa will finish up his first season with the orchestra during the “Arts for a Better Tomorrow” show which will run at Gateway High School, and his goals for the coming year are ambitious.
The five shows of the 2014-15 season will include plenty of material familiar for traditional fans of the symphony. The first show in October, titled “Musical Fancies,” will feature works by Claude Debussy, Ludwig Von Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
That kind of standard lineup will come along with a much more modern emphasis in shows like “Musical Tales: Broadway Selections” in February. That concert will include work by George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Gamboa said the coming year will see a lot more focus on ramping up the diversity in the musical selection and re-establishing programs like the annual youth competition for the “Arts for a Better Tomorrow” show.
“The orchestra was in transition with the music director search,” Gamboa said, referring to the two-year search process to replace former director Richard Niezen. “Many of the ongoing projects had to be put on hold for a while … Now that I’m in place, next year I will have the time and the team will have the time to structure it in a way so that the word gets out.”
The tentative schedule for the 2014-15 season follows:
“Musical Fancies, ” Oct. 2014, Highpoint Church
Norman Gamboa, conductor Max Soto, oboe
Holiday Concert, Dec. 2014
Norman Gamboa, conductor
(repertoire to be announced)
“Musical Tales: Broadway Selections,” Feb., 2015
Highpoint Church
Family & Children’s Concerts
Norman Gamboa, conductor Mallory Bernstein, piano
“Enchanted Nights,” March 2015
Gateway High School
Norman Gamboa, conductor Kerry Johnson, soprano Denver Women’s Chorus
“Arts for a Better Tomorrow,” May, 2015
Gateway High School
Norman Gamboa, conductor (Solo Competition winners TBA)