CELEBRATING You Hear Arvo Pärt’S Most Whimsical Work, If Bach Had Been a Barber’S Sentimental Work Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and Select Beekeeper

Nordic Sounds Power of Touch September 21, 2014, 7:30p.m. November 16, 2014, 3:00p.m. Pick-Staiger Hall, Evanston Nichols Hall, Evanston Non-proﬁt Org. Non-proﬁt U.S. Postage PAID IL Wilmette, 219 No. Permit Scott Speck, Conductor Joel Smirno!, Conductor ANNIVERSARY YEAR Christina Åstrand, Violin Asako Tamura, Soprano

“To hear or not to hear?” is the question Beloved guest conductor Joel Smirnoff as the Chicago Philharmonic takes your ears on a journey to returns as we focus on the sense of touch in music. The program Denmark. We begin with the Overture to Hamlet, Tchaikovsky’s opens with the Overture to La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder), dramatic portrayal of the famous Danish Prince. Then Danish Rossini’s operatic farce about a clever couple who carry on a violinist Christina Åstrand performs the U.S. premiere of the secret marriage, staying “in touch” using a silken ladder lowered exhilarating Romantic-era violin concerto of her cherished country- from the lady’s bedroom window. Brilliant soprano soloist Asako man, Niels Gade. You may swat at the air around your ears when Tamura touches our hearts with her performances of Samuel CELEBRATING you hear Arvo Pärt’s most whimsical work, If Bach Had Been a Barber’s sentimental work Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and select Beekeeper. We close this program with Denmark’s best known com- arias by Mozart. We close with Haydn’s penultimate symphony, poser (and best kept secret), Carl Nielsen. His First Symphony is featuring the dramatic touch of sticks on the drums. THE unforgettable and highly accessible; Nielsen’s youthful and vibrant SENSES energy explodes in the very ﬁrst bar and never lets up. FIVE SENSES

FIVETHRILLING CONCERTS CHRISTINA ÅSTRAND, VIOLIN SCOTT SPECK, CONDUCTOR ASAKO TAMURA, SOPRANO JOEL SMIRNOFF, CONDUCTOR

2014!2015 SEASON “HER !TAMURA’S" VOICE IS A BRILLIANT JEWEL…” ! GRAEME KAY

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