Brockport Symphony Orchestra®
 

 WESTERN NEW YORK'S MOST EXCITING COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA 
SINCE 2010

2015-2016 Season Finale:
ERIE CANAL CELEBRATION CONCERT



Celebrating Dr. Heidi Macpherson's 

Presidential Inauguration Weekend


Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 4:00pm

St. Luke's Episcopal Church Sanctuary

14 State Street

Brockport, NY 14420


FREE ADMISSION!!

Donations to the orchestra & St. Luke's 

and canned items for the Brockport Ecumenical Food Shelf 

gratefully accepted at the door


Free Parking in Adjacent Lots


Complimentary Dessert Reception to Follow in Parish Hall




    

Program Highlights

Richard Willis arr. William Hullfish 
Dewitt Clinton's Grand Canal March

Joseph Haydn 
Adagio cantabile from Symphony No. 92
(Oxford - also known as the
celebration symphony)

Harold Arlen and Dorothy Fields 
Selections from "The Farmer Takes a Wife"
1. Today I Love Everybody 
2. With the Sun Warm Upon Me
Mary Wojciechowski, Vocal Soloist

Jonathan Allentoff and William Hullfish 
Songs of the Erie Canal 
for Narrator, String Band & Orchestra 
(World Premiere)
1. The Cruise of the Bouncing Sally   
2. The Prickly Heat  
3. Good Ship Called the Danger    
4. The Canalboat That Never Returned
Bill Andrews, Vice-Mayor of Brockport, Narrator
Golden Eagle String Band
Featuring text by Mary Jane Holmes




Special Introduction by Grace Carson,
author of "The Works of Mary Jane Holmes: 
A Brockport Union Catalog"