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THE MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Friday, October 31, 2025 at 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 8 pm Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 3 pm
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Damon Gupton, conductor Jonathan Carney, violin
Damon Gupton
Damon Gupton
Mark Lyons
Johann Sebastian Bach |
Toccata from Toccata |
/ Leopold Stokowski |
and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 |
Charles Gounod
Funeral March of a Marionette Camille Saint-Saëns Danse macabre, op. 40
Silvestre Revueltas John Williams James Horner John Williams INTERMISSION John Carpenter
Jonathan Carney, violin Sensemayá The Shark Theme from Jaws Futile Escape from Aliens“ Devil ' s Dance” from The Witches of Eastwick
Theme from Halloween
Bernard Herrmann Psycho: A Short Suite for String Orchestra
/ Christopher Palmer I. Prelude II. The Murder III. Finale
Newton Brothers
" At Last " from Fall of the House of Usher
Modest Mussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain / Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Hector Berlioz
Mvt. IV, March to the Scaffold, from Symphonie fantastique
IV. March to the Scaffold: Allegretto non troppo
Mvt. V, Dies Irae excerpt, from
Symphonie fantastique V. Dream of the Witches’ Sabbath: Larghetto- Allegro
This performance is approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, and includes a 20-minute intermission.
POPS SERIES PRESENTING SPONSOR:
Damon Gupton is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he served as American Conducting Fellow of the Houston Symphony and assistant conductor of the Kansas City Symphony. Appearances include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Boston Pops, National Symphony Orchestra, Sphinx Chamber Orchestra and the Brevard Music Center. Other musical collaborations include work with Sting, Marcus Miller, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Common, and Leslie Odom Jr., and Massamba Diop in Marvel Studio’ s Black Panther in Concert.
A graduate of the Juilliard School Drama Division, Gupton is an accomplished actor in television, film, and onstage. He has had series regular roles in The Big Door Prize, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starring Samuel L. Jackson, Black Lightning, Criminal Minds, The Player, The Divide, Prime Suspect, as well as guest star / recurring appearances on Happy Face, Super Pumped, The Comey Rule, Law & Order, and others. He appears in the upcoming film Lear Rex, starring Al Pacino, as well as Damien Chazelle’ s Academy Awardwinning Whiplash and LaLa Land, the award-winning Ma Rainey’ s Black Bottom directed by Phylicia Rashad, and the Broadway production of Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awardwinning Clybourne Park.
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