Pre-Concert Talks:
We're delighted to introduce a new series of one-hour Pre-Concert Talks.

Led by NHPO Conductor Anthony Princiotti, the talks will feature guest artists and NHPO members discussing the music to be performed, as well as the lives and experiences of the composers who wrote it, and the challenges involved in performing the works. Audience members will have the opportunity to interact and ask questions.

The Talks are free to ticket holders for the evening's performance, and will start at 7:00 p.m., at the Palace Theater, just before our Oct. 27, March 2 and May 4 concerts.

Concert Programs and Schedule:

Concert I: Saturday, Oct.27, 2001 at 8 p.m.
A program of orchestral favorites:
Rossini's Overture to "The Barber of Seville"
Ravel's evocative "Mother Goose Suite"
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World").

Concert II: Saturday, Dec.1, 2001 at 8 p.m.
Holiday Pops at the Palace
Patrick Smith, Guest Conductor
Our Holiday Pops program highlights traditional music of the December Holiday season.

Concert III: Sunday, March 3 at 3 p.m.
And exciting afternoon Program featuring:
Mozart's Overture to "La Clemenza di Tito"
Schumann's Piano Concerto, with soloist Deirdre Brenner,
and Mussorgsky's -"Pictures at an Exhibition"

Concert IV: Saturday, May 4 at 8 p.m.
An all-Tschaikovsky program featuring the Violin Concerto in D Major, with the NHPO's marvelous concertmaster, Elliot Markow; also the Symphony No. 2 ("Little Russian").

Concert V: Sunday, June 9 at 3 p.m.
The season will close on a humorous note with our annual spring "Pops at the Palace".
This year's program will feature music from the worlds of musical comedy, silent films and cartoons, as well as musical jokes from the standard orchestral repertoire and a piece by P.D.Q. Bach.

Program: NHPO Spring Pops at the Palace
"Music, Comedy and other Escapades"