1980/81 Season
Bernie Hendricks, conductor
Fall Concert
November 16, 1980
Children’s Concert (First)
- George Kleinsinger and Paul Tripp – Tubby the Tuba
- Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
- Serge Prokofieff – Peter and the Wolf
- Sarasate – A Spanish Dance with Linda and Paul Rosenthal
- Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in a minor Linda & Paul Rosenthal
- A series of Rogers & Hammerstein tunes – John & Gretchen d’Armand
- Carman Dragon arrangement of Alaska Flag Song and other songs with the University Singers
Spring Concert
1981/82 Season
Bernie Hendricks, conductor
Fall Concert:
November 15, 1981– JDHS
Second Annual Children’s Concert
Spring Concert
1982/83 Season
October 29, 1982 JDHS
Third Annual Children’s Concert
Mel Flood, conductor
- Wagner – Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nuremburg
- Pietro Mascagni – Intermezzo Sinfonico from Cavalleria Rusticana
- Bizet – Selections from Carmen
- Seymore Barab – Little Red Riding Hood with Jan Soboleff, Gretchen d’Armand and John d’Armand, soloists
March 11, 1983 – Bethel Christian Center
March 12, 1983 – Haines Chilkat Center
Mel Flood, conductor
- Beethoven – Egmont Overture
- Mozart – Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola with Linda and Paul Rosenthal
- Gounod – Ballet music from Faust
- Sibelius – Finlandia
April 28, 1983 – Bethel Christian Center
Juneau Symphony and the University Singers Spring Musicale
Mel Flood, conductor
- The Water Music Suite by George Frideric Handel
- Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 by Edvard Grieg
- Gloria from Mass No. 3 in B flat Major, Op. 141 by Franz Schubert
1983/84 Season
November 19, 1983 – Centennial Hall
Mel Flood, conductor
- Eleanor Dusenbury – Alaska Flag Variations, arranged by Curtiss Blake
- Brahms – Academic Festival Overture
- Vaughn Williams – Concerto in f minor for Tuba and Orchestra with George Hoyt, tuba
- Weldon Hart – John Jacob Niles Suite
- Morton Gould – Elegy for String Orchestra
- Jacques Offenbach – Ballet Parisien
November 20, 1983 – Centennial Hall
Children’s Concert
December 22, 1983 – State Office Building
Christmas Concert
March 16, 1984 – Juneau
April 6, 1984 – Juneau
April 7, 1984 – Sitka
Guest Soloist: James Johnson, piano
- Symphony No 8 in D Major, K. 48 by W.A. Mozart
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Major by L. van Beethoven
- Fanfare from La Peri by Paul Dukas
- Procession to the Cathedral by Richard Wagner
- Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor by J.S. Bach/Stokowski
Opera
- Beauty and the Beast – Carol Sams (?)
UAJ Commencement
1984/85 Season
October 20, 1984 – JDHS
Symphony at the Cinema
Melvin Flood, conductor
- R. Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra
- J. Strauss – On the Beautiful Blue Danube
- Legrande – Medley
- Raposo – The Great Muppet Caper
- arr. Polster – That’s Entertainment
- Neil Diamond – The Jazz Singer
- Vangelis – Chariots of Fire
- arr. Lowden – Disney Magic
- Bill Conti – Rocky
November 25, 1984 – JDHS
Fifth Annual Children’s Concert
Symphony Toy Shoppe
Melvin Flood, conductor
- Herbert – Selections from “Babes in Toyland”
- Waldteufel – The Skaters Waltz
- Haydn – Toy Symphony
- Liadov – The Music Box
- arr. Bob Lowden – Disney Magic
- Raposo, arr. Bill Holcomb – The Great Muppet Caper
December 1 & 2, 1984
Songs from the Dragon Quilt: An Alaskan Journey
presented by Juneau Oratorio Choir
Melvin Flood – Symphony conductor
- Haydn – Selections for String Quartet
- Alice Parker – Songs from the Dragon Quilt: An Alaskan Journey
- arr. Parker – Three Christmas Carols
- arr. Parker – Seven Carols for Christmas
February 8, 1985 – Northern Light Church
Winds Chamber Music
Melvin Flood, conductor
- Mozart – Serenade No. 11
- R. Strauss – Serenade in E flat
- Dvorak – Serenade in D Minor
February 23, 1985 – JDHS
The Spring Concert
Mel Flood, conductor
- Francois Devienne – Concerto No. 2 in D Major (conducted by Bernie Hendricks)
- Beethoven – Symphony No. 2 in D Major
1985/86 Season
October 26, 1985 – JDHS
Mel Flood, conductor
- Bach-Stokowski – Choral-Prelude (Great Fugue)
- R. Strauss – Suite for Winds in B flat Op. 4
- Mozart – Ave, verum corpus K.618 with the Juneau Community Chorus
- Bruckner – Te Deum, with soloists Elizabeth Hendricks, Karen Hansen, Stan Watson, Mike Opitz
November 23, 1985 (?) – JDHS
Children’s Concert – (weekend before Thanksgiving)
March 1, 1986 – JDHS
Christopher Parkening with the Juneau Symphony
Mel Flood, conductor
- Mozart – Divertimento #2 in D Major K.131
- Vivaldi – Concerto in A Major for Guitar and String Orchestra with Christopher Parkening, guitar
- Vivaldi – Concerto in D Major for Guitar and String Orchestra
- Rodrigo – Fantasia para un Gentilhombre
- Beethoven – Symphony #1 in C Major
May 10, 1986 – JDHS
An Evening of Light Classics
Mel Flood, conductor
- Offenbach – Selections from Ballet Parisien
- Johan Strauss – Tales from the Vienna Wood
- Richard Rogers – Sound of Music
- Georges Bizet – Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite
- Jerry Bock – Fiddler on the Roof
- Isaac Albeniz – Tango in D
- Beethoven – Turkish March
- Louis Gottschalk – Souvenir de Porto Rico
- Shostakovich – Polka from The Golden Age
- Gliere – Russian Sailors Dance from the Red Poppy
- Richard Rodgers – South Pacific
- Ralph Vaughn Williams – Sea Songs
- Paul Creston – Night in Mexico
- Frederick Muller – Londonderry Air
- Andrew Lloyd Webber – Evita
April 27, 1986 – UAJ Commencement
Juneau Lyric Opera (not part of Symphony schedule)
- Gilbert and Sullivan – Iolanthe
1986/87 Season
November 1, 1986 Concert – JDHS
Mel Flood, conductor
- Elgar – Chanson de Nuit
- Elgar – Chanson de Matin
- Arutunian – Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra with David Hickman, trumpet
- Mendelssohn – Symphony No.5 in D, “Reformation”
December 6, 1986 – JDHS
Children’s Concert
Mel Flood, conductor
- Andrew Lloyd Webber – Memory from “Cats”
- Hart McDonald – Children’s Symphony –
- Morton Gould – Yankee Doodle
- Robert McBride – Pumpkin Eater’s Little Fugue
- Lucien Calliet – Alouette
- Bob Lowden – Disney Magic
- Bruce Chase – Christmas Memories
February 15, 1987 – Haines Chilkat Center
February 21, 1987 – JDHS
Mel Flood, conductor
- Carl Nielsen – Helios Overture
- Franz Berwald – Symphony Singuliere in C
- Armas Jarnfeldt – Berceuse and Praeludium
- Grieg – Piano Concerto in a minor with Neal O’Doan, piano*
Juneau Lyric Opera
- Gilbert & Sullivan – The Gondoliers
May 10, 1987 – UAS Commencement
1987/88 Season
October 24, 1987 – JDHS
Saturday Evening at the Pops
Mel Flood, conductor
- Irving Berlin – A Symphonic Portrait arr. Hawley Ades
- Leonard Bernstein West Side Story
- Andrew Lloyd Webber – Cats
- Galt MacDermot/James Rado & Gerome Tagni – Hair
- Frederick Loewe/Allen Jay Lerner – Camelot arranged Robert R. Bennett
- Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein – South Pacific – arranged Robert R Bennett
- Mitch Leigh/Joe Darion – Man of La Mancha arranged Phillip J. Lang
- Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice – Evita
November 29, 1987 – JDHS
Children’s Concert (8th)
- Serge Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf with Fran Ulmer, narrator
- Condit Atkinson – A Musical Trip to the Zoo
- Henry Mancini – The Pink Panther – arranged by John Cacavas
December, 1987
Inaugural Ceremony for Governor Steve Cowper
February 20, 1988 – JDHS
with Linda Rosenthal, violin
Juneau Lyric Opera
- Franz Lehar – The Merry Widow
1988/89 Season
November 12, 1988 – JDHS
Mel Flood, conductor
- Mozart – Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K 385 “Haffner”
- Brahms – Schicksalslied fur Chor und Orchester, Op. 54, University Singers
- Manuel de Falla – Noches en los Jardines de Espana, Alberto Rafols, Piano
November 27, 1988 – JDHS
Youth Concert
Mel Flood, conductor
- Mozart – Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K 219, Allegro aperto, Ajay Gulur, violin*
- Miklos Rozsa – The Jungle Book with Fran Ulmer, narrator; Ila Hammond, singer
- Disney Magic – arr. Bob Lowden
April 8, 1989 – JDHS
A Concert of Light Classics
Mel Flood, conductor
- Borodin – Polovestian Dances from Prince Igor
- Tchaikovsky – Suite from the Sleeping Beauty, Op 66a
- Gershwin – Selections from Porgy and Bess
- Eric Coates – London Suite
February 10, 11, 17, 18, 1989 – JDHS
Juneau Lyric Opera
- Gilbert & Sullivan – Princess Ida
1989/90 Season
October 14, 1989 – JDHS
Mel Flood, conductor
- Beethoven – Coriolanus Overture, Op. 62
- Walton – Concerto for Viola and Orchestra with Marcus Thompson, Violist
- Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 in e Minor “From the New World,” Op. 95
November 26, 1989 – JDHS
Mel Flood, conductor
- Mozart – Concerto in A Major for Clarinet and Orchestra K.622 with Daniel Korn, clarinet*
- John Williams – Theme from “Superman”
- Wagner – Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla
- John Williams – Selections from “E.T.”
- Holst – Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity from The Planets
- John Williams – Medley from “The Empire Strikes Back”
- Jerry Goldsmith – Theme from Star Trek, the Motion Picture, arr. Harry Simeone
February 24, 1990 – JDHS
An Evening of Light Classics
Mel Flood, conductor
- Ferde Grofe – Grand Canyon Suite
- Copland – Rodeo
- Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
April 5, 6, 7, 8, 1990 – JDHS
Juneau Lyric Opera
- Gilbert and Sullivan – The Mikado
May 4, 1990 – UAS Commencement