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A Partial List of Works Performed by the Orchestra.

The orchestra has performed at Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Culver City, since its 1999-2000 season. Other venues-Los Angeles: Wadsworth Theater, Wilshire Ebel Theater, Sacred Heart Chapel-Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Street Scene, Westchester High School, Orville Wrigth Middle School, Vision Complex Theater-Liemert Park, Dorsey High School.

The orchestra began as the Westchester Symphony, became the Marina-Westchester, then the Marina-Culver City-Westchester, and is now ensconced in Culver City as the Culver City Symphony Orchestra.

COMPOSER	COMPOSITION	DATE OF PERFORMANCE
J. S. Bach	Brandenburg Concerto No. 1	Feb 16, 2007
Barber	School for Scandal, Overture	Mar 20, 1993
Barber	Violin Concerto Tamaki Kawakubo Stirling Trent	Jun 13, 1994 Jan 30, 2010
Barber	First Essay for Orchestra	Nov 2, 1985
Barber	Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Lori Stinson-Soprano	Nov 10, 2007
Bartok	Rhapsody, No. 1 Xi Zhang, violin	Oct 18, 1997
Beethoven	Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)	Dec 21, 1985
Beethoven	Symphony No. 5	Jan 15, 1994 Nov 11, 2005
Beethoven	Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral)	Dec 19, 1987
Beethoven	Symphony No. 7	Nov 10, 2007 Oct 24, 2009
Beethoven	Symphony No. 9	1993
Beethoven	Leonore Overture, No. 3	April 30, 1986
Beethoven	Consecration of the House-Overture	Nov 2000
Beethoven	Violin Concerto, Elisa Barston-violin	Mar 5, 1988
Beethoven	Piano Concerto No. 1 Esther Keel-piano	Jan 25, 1997
Beethoven	Piano Concerto, No. 4 Nadia Shpachenko	Nov 2002
Berlioz	Symphonie Fantastique	Dec 2, 1989
Berlioz	Harold in Italy Karen Elaine-viola	Dec 8, 1990
Bizet	Carmen, concert dramatization	1983
Bizet	Symphony in C	Oct 22, 1988 Nov 8, 2003
Borodin	In the Steppes of Central Asia	Oct 14, 1989
Bottesini	Concerto for Double Bass Danielle Jones-double bass	Jan 29, 2005
Brahms	Violin Concerto, Cheryl Staples-violin Linda Wang-violin	April 30, 1986 Oct 19, 1991
Brahms	Piano Concerto, No. 1 John Novacek-piano Matthew Bagasao-piano	Oct 22, 1988 Nov 3, 2003
Brahms	Symphony No. 2	Feb 1, 2008
Brahms	Symphony No. 4	Nov, 2005
Britten	Simple Symphony	Jan 28, 2006
Cecile Chaminade	Concertina for Flute in D Major, Op. 107 Patricia Maki-Orchestra Principal Flute, soloist	May 15, 1997
Chauson	Poem, for Violin Timothy Fain-violin	Apr 26.1992
Carlos Chavez	Sinfonia India (Symphony No. 2)	Apr 15, 1989
Chopin	Piano Concerto, No 2 Ben-Han Sun	Apr 2, 2005
Coleridge-Taylor	Danse Negre	Jan 29, 1999
Conus	Violin Concerto Tamaki Kawakubo Danielle Chong	Jun 15, 1994 May 19, 1995
Copland	Appalachian Spring Suite	Feb 3, 1990 Oct 13, 1990
Copland	Danzon Cubano	May 15, 1993
Copland	Quiet City	Oct 24. 2009
Copland	3 Latin American Sketches	Jan 30, 2010
Corigliano	Red Violin Chaconne Lindsday Deutsche-violin	2005
Debussy	Children's Corner Suite (arr. Caplet)	Mar 7, 1992
Debussy	Prelude a l'Apris-midi d'un faune	Apr 26, 1992
Dvorak	Symphony No. 8	Jun 15, 1994 Oct 18, 1997
Dvorak	Symphony No. 9, From the New World	Apr 15, 1989 Oct. 17. 1992 Oct 25, 2008
Dvorak	Dvorak Cello Concerto Brent Small Tina Guo	Mar 5, 1988 Nov 11, 2005
Dvorak	Slavonic Rhapsody	Apr 3, 2004
Dvorak	Slavonic Dances, Opus 46	Mar 31, 2007
Elgar	Cello Concerto Amy Barston Leah Hansen Juan-Salvador Carrasco	Oct 21, 1995 Oct 25, 2008 Jan 31, 2009
(Duke) Ellington	The Three Black Kings	Jan 29, 1999
Faure	Pelleas et Melisande - Suite	Mar 7, 1992
Charles Fernandez	Elegy for Oboe and Strings	Jan 30, 2010
Tanya French	Inner Voyage	May 15, 1997
Gershwin	Rhapsody in Blue Eric Heinz Heubner,- piano	Apr 26, 1992
Gershwin	An American in Paris
Glinka	Russlan and Ludmilla, Overture	Mar 19, 1995
Guilmant	Symphony No. 1 for Organ and Orchestra, David J. Hicken-organ	Jan 27, 1996
Handel	Aria, Let the Bright Seraphim Lynda Anders-soprano	Dec 21, 1985
Haydn	Symphony No. 94 (Surprise)	Jan 31, 2004
Haydn	Symphony No. 99	Oct. 19, 1991
Hoffmeister	Concert for Bass, No. 3 Aleksey Klyushnik - Bass American Premiere of orchestra version	Oct. 24, 2009
Ibert	Divertissement	Mar 7, 1992
Kabalevsky	Piano Concerto, No. 3 Michael Chang	Mar 31, 2007
Kachaturian	Masquerade Suite	Feb. 23, 1994 Jun 8, 1996
Lalo	Symphonie Expagnole Eric Chang-violin Anne Lee-violin Niv Askenazi-violin	Jan 25, 1997 Apr 1, 2006 Mar 29, 2008
Lalo	Concerto in d minor for Cello Jiri Barta Yao Zhao	Oct 17, 1992 Jan 15, 1994
Libby Larson	Overture for the End of a Century	May 15, 1997
Liszt	Piano Concerto, No. 2 Weston Mizumoto	Jan 31, 2009
Liszt	Mephisto Waltz, No. 1	Jun 13, 2009
Lully	Suite from Roland	Jan 31, 2004
MacDowell	Piano Concerto No. 2 Judy Huang	Mar 5, 1988
Mahler	Songs of the Wayfarer Eugenia Hamilton, contralto	Jan. 11, 1992
Massenet	Thias: Meditation Religieuse Lindsay Deutsch-violin	Apr 3, 2004
Massenet	Le Cid, Ballet	Oct 15 1994
Mendelsohn	The Hebrides	Oct. 19, 1991
Mendelsohn	Violin Concerto, Maya Iwabuchi Tamaki Kawakubo	Nov 2, 1985 Oct 13, 1990
Mendelsohn	Sinfonia, No. 2 for String Orchestra	Apr 4, 2009
Montano	Sinfonia Concertant for Woodwind Quintet, Percussion, Harp and Strings, Calico Winds	Jun 13, 2009
Mozart	Symphony No. 35 (Haffner)	Oct 13, 1990 Nov 3, 2006
Mozart	Symphony No. 38 (Prague)	Jan 29, 2005
Mozart	Violin Concerto, No. 5 Nancy Roth, Concert Master	Feb 16, 2007
Mozart	Horn Concerto, No. 2, Teag Reaves, Principal Horn	Jan 28, 2006
Mozart	Exsultate, Jubilate Lynda Anders-soprano	Dec 21, 1985
Mozart	Flute Concerto, No. 2 Mary Fukushima Ciprian Ignat	Mar 19, 1995 Jan 31, 2004
Mozart	Per Questa Bella Mano, for Double Bass and Bass, Danielle Jones-double bass, Louis Lebherz-bass	Jan 29, 2005
Mozart	Eine Kleine Nachtmusic	Apr 4, 2009
Mussorgsky	A Night on a Bald Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)	Jun 13, 1992
Maria Newman	Blesdian, Symphonic Miniatures I. Fantasy and Fanfare II. Hymn III. Little Gigue	May 15, 1997
Paganini	Violin Concerto E. Samuel Fischer	Oct 21, 1995
(Maunel) Ponce	Concierto del Sur	Apr 15, 1989
Popper	Hungarian Rhapsody Abby Schoville, cello Yeri Kim, cello	Jan 15, 1994 Mar 31, 2007
Deon Nielsen Price	Epitaphs: Concertpiece for Piano and Orchestra - Ms. Price-soloist	May 15, 1997
Puccini	La Boheme, Act I, Final Scene, Lynda Anders-soprano	Dec 8, 1990
Puccini	"Mi chimao Mini," Lynda Anders-soprano	Dec 21, 1985
Puccini	Madama Butterfly-Concert Dramatization Deborah James, Stephen Plummer, Julie Randall, Michael Paul Smith, Louis Lebherz, Timothy Leon, Frank Fetta-Conductor	May 29, 1999
Prokofiev	Symphony No. 1	April 30, 1986
Prokofiev	Sinfonietta, Op 5	Nov 8, 2003
Prokofiev	Piano Concerto No. 1 Anne Yen	Mar 20, 1993
Rachmanioff	Piano Concerto, No. 2 Aeri Lee	Apr 2, 2005
Rachmanioff	Piano Concerto, No. 3 Kai-Zi Wu	Oct 14, 1989
Rachmanioff	Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini John Novacek-piano	Dec 19, 1987
Rachmanioff	Symphony No. 2	Oct 15, 1994
Ravel	Mother Goose Suite	Dec 21, 1985
Ravel	Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra Liang Chai	Mar 7, 1992
Ravel	Piano Concerto in G Major Felix Eisenhauer	Nov 3, 2006
Ravel	Le Tombeau de Couperin	Feb 16, 2007
Revueltas	Sensemaya	Feb 3, 1990
Revueltas	Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca	Feb 3, 1990 Jan 30, 2010
Rimsky-Korsakov	Capriccio Espagnol	Feb 23, 1991
Rogers	Oklahoma! - selections	Jun 8, 1996
Rossini	Le Siege de Corinthe, Overture	Apr 26, 1992
Rossini-Respighi	La Boutique Fantasque	Dec 2, 1989
Saint-Saens	Cello Concerto, No. 1 Irene Bongshin Ko-cello	Mar 7, 1992
Saint-Saens	Cello Concerto, No. 2 Ruslan Birukov	Feb 1, 2008
Saint-Saens	Piano Concerto No. 2 Hyongsoon Kim Joseph Tsai	Jan 25, 1997 Mar 29, 2008
Saint-Saens	Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Xi Shang-violin	Oct 18, 1997
Saint-Saens	Havanaise Searmi Park-violin	Jan 19, 1995
Saint-Saens	Symphony No. 3, c minor (Organ Symhpony)	May 3, 1986 Jan 27, 1996
Saint-Saens	Violin Concerto No. 3 Yvonne Lam Kei Sugiyama	Mar 20, 1993 Mar 31, 2007
Sarasate	Carmen Fantasy Su-Li, violin	Dec 2, 1989
Sarasate	Zigeunerweisen Kevin Kumar-violin Nicholas Paponne-violin	Apr 26, 1992 Apr 2, 2006
Schubert	Symphony No. 5	Jan 28, 2006
Schubert	Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)	Nov 19, 1995
Schumann	Symphony No. 4	Jan 29, 1997
Shostakovich	Symphony No. 9	Apr 2, 2005 Jan 31, 2009
Shostakovich	Piano Concerto No. 1 Seromi Park	Apr 26, 1992
Shostakovich	Piano Concerto No. 2 Rachel Huojae Chung Ryan Lin	Apr 1, 2006 Mar 31, 2007
Shostakovich	Festival Overture	Nov 1, 1998
Sibelius	Symphony No. 2, D Major	Nov 2, 1985 Jan. 11, 1992 Mar 29, 2008
Sibelius	Symphony No. 5	1993
Sibelius	Violin Concerto Yi Hu Adelaide Baughman	May 3, 1986 Nov 1, 1998
Smetana	The Bartered Bride-Overture	Oct. 17. 1992
Stebbens	Introduction, Aria and Finale for Organ, David Hickens-organ	Jan 30, 1999
(William Grant) Still	The American Scene:The Far West Suite; Rhapsody for Soprano and Orchestra, Lynda Anders-Soprano; La Buiablesse (ballet suite); Symphony No. 1-Afro-American Symphony	Jan 16 & 17, 1993
(William Grant) Still	Symphony No. 1-Afro-American Symphony	Jan 29, 1999
(William Grant) Still	Danzas de panama	Feb 3, 1990 Apr 4, 2009
Stravinsky	Fanfare for a New Theater	Oct 24, 2009

Stravinsky	Firebird Suite	Oct 14, 1989
Stravinsky	Pulcinella Suite	Jan 29, 2005 Nov 3, 2006
J. Strauss, Jr.	Die Fledermaus, Act II	Jun 8, 1996
R. Strauss	Festliches Praeludium for Organ and Orchestra, Christopher Toth, organ	Oct 18, 1997
Svobada	Ex Libris	Oct. 17. 1992
Svobada	Overture of the Season	Dec 19, 1987
Tchaikovsky	Rococo Variations Jian Wei Tong-cello Jeffrey Li-cello	Feb 23, 199 Apr 3, 2004
Tchaikovsky	Violin Concerto, Anne Lee Austin Hansen	Mar 29, 2008 Oct 25, 2008
Tchaikovsky	Hamlet, Fantasy-Overture	Mar 20, 1993
Tchaikovsky	Mozartiana, Suite No. 4, Op 61	Apr 1, 2006
Tchaikovsky	Romeo and Juelit Fantasy Overture	Jan 15, 1994 Apr 3, 2004
Tchaikovsky	Symphony No. 4	Jun 13, 1992
Tchaikovsky	Symphony No. 5	Nov 1, 1998 Jun 13, 2009
Tchaikovsky	Symphony No. 6	Nov 1, 1994
Vaughan Williams	Norfolk Rhapsody, No. 1	Jan. 11, 1992
Verdi	La Traviata (Concert Dramatization)	Jun 21, 1986
Verdi	La Traviata, Act III, Prelude	Oct 21, 1995
Vieuxtemp	Violin Concerto No. 5 Jennie Kwon-violin	Mar 20, 1993
Villa-Lobos	Bachianas Brasileiras, No.1 Arranged for String Orchestra by Matthew Hetz	Jan 30, 2010
Villa-Lobos	Bachianas Brasileiras, No.5	Feb 3, 1990
Vivaldi	Spring, from the Four Seasons La Tempesta del Mare Nancy Roth - Violin	April 4, 2009
Wagner	Lohengrin, Act 3-Prelude	May 3, 1986
Wagner	Christopher Columbus Overture	Jan 11, 1992
Wagner	Rienzi, Overture	Dec 8, 1990
Wagner	Tannhauser, Overture	Jan 27, 1996
Elinor Remick Warren	Songs for Soprano and Orchestra (World Permiere of orchhestral version) Dream, Silent Noon, The Betrothed; Lori Stinson-Soprano	Nov 10, 2007
Weber	Oberon, Overture	Oct 21, 1995
Wieniawski	Violin Concerto No. 1 Mayumi Kanagawa	Jan 31, 2009
Wieniawski	Violin Concerto No. 2 Nicholas Pappone	Apr 1, 2006
(John) Williams	Olympic Fanfare and Theme (arrg. Riggio)	Jun 8, 1996

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