colorado symphony 2018-2019 classic series

The Colorado Symphony's 2018-19 Season presents a wealth of world-class artistry performed by your critically-acclaimed orchestra, the region's only full-time professional orchestra. Our Classics Series continues with the transition of integrating innovative artists with the best of symphonic work envisioned with a contemporary twist. Colorado Symphony musicians and guest artists will wow you all season long as soloists on some of symphonic music's greatest pieces. britten war requiem FRI bruch performed by FRI all beethoven FRI dvorák symphony FRI Brett Mitchell, conductor 11.2.18 11.16.18 Hans Graf, conductor 11.30.18 1.18.19 Amanda Majeski, soprano pinchas zukerman no. 9 7.30PM Jaime Martín, conductor 7.30PM Inon Barnatan, piano 7.30PM Brett Mitchell, conductor 7.30PM Nicholas Phan, tenor Pinchas Zukerman, soprano BEETHOVEN Overture to Egmont, Op. 84 Damon Guptan, narator James Westman, baritone RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, COPLAND Lincoln Portrait Colorado Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolf, New Morning for the BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 Op. 37 JOSEPH SCHWANTNER director, Colorado Children’s Chorale, Deborah World (Daybreak of Freedom) Desantis, artistic director SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, "Pastoral" DVORÁK Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, BRITTEN War Requiem, Op. 66 “From the New World” On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the A true master of our time, violinist Pinchas This season’s annual weekend of all View the American experiment through the November 11, 1918 Armistice that signaled Zukerman teams with guest conductor Jaime Beethoven performances highlights works of prism of three prominent composers as they the end of World War I, your Colorado Martín to invigorate Bruch’s renowned the world’s most revered and recognized reflect their observations of who we were Symphony presents a once-in-a-generation concerto. Zukerman lends his virtuosity, composer: Ludwig van Beethoven. GRAMMY during the Civil War, who we were during the performance of Benjamin Britten’s prodigious technique, and unwavering artistic Award® Winner Hans Graf takes the podium civil rights movement, and who we’ve always masterpiece, War Requiem. Commissioned to standards to a work that teems with lyrical as your Colorado Symphony performs strived to be in a trio of thematically tied mark the opening of a new cathedral for the works. Noted Actor Damon Gupton, known for city of Coventry in 1962 after a bombing beauty and emotional sincerity. Ravel’s Le Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” his roles in Criminal Minds, Deadline, and La destroyed the previous cathedral in 1940, Tombeau de Couperin pays a light-hearted which brims with color and texture as it La Land, brings the words of Abraham Lincoln Britten, a lifelong pacifist and conscientious homage to loved ones lost, while Sibelius’ transports listeners on a stroll through the in Lincoln Portrait and Dr. Martin Luther King, objector during World War II, created this very Symphony No. 5 builds to a majestic and Viennese countryside. Overture to Egmont, Jr. in New Morning for the World (Daybreak of public expression of his beliefs about ‘war and fitting conclusion to an unforgettable shows Beethoven at his most urgent and Freedom) to life as Copland and Schwantner the pity of war.’ In a master stroke, he performance. forceful in a piece full of power and fire. Inon incorporate narrative passages and a broad included texts by the First World War poet Barnatan joins the ensemble as featured lyrical scoring that sounds unmistakably Wilfred Owen, providing an ironic commentary American. In his renowned Symphony No. 9, soloist on Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 on the classic Latin Requiem Mass while popularly known as the “New World serving as a reminder to future generations on for a weekend showcasing the works of a Symphony,” Dvorák incorporates influences of the wickedness of war. Joined by the symphonic legend. Native American musical rhythms, Colorado Symphony Chorus, the Colorado African-American spirituals, and the Children’s Chorale, and three vocal soloists, wide-open spaces he encountered on a trip Brett Mitchell leads your Colorado Symphony through America’s heartland in the early 1890s in its first performance of this monumental in a work of beauty and relevance. undertaking since 2001. mendelssohn FRI a classical romance THU beethoven FRI tchaikovsky FRI 2.1.19 Brett Mitchell, conductor 2.14.19 3.1.19 3.15.19 double concerto 7.30PM Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano 7.30PM symphony no. 7 7.30PM symphony no. 6 7.30PM featuring Yumi Hwang-Williams Brett Mitchell, conductor Peter Oundjian, conductor HERRMANN "Scène d’Amour" from Vertigo Kevin John Edusei, conductor Mason Bates, electronica/composer Stephen Hough, piano LIEBERSON Neruda Songs Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin Joshua Roman, cello JOAN TOWERS "Made in America DIAMOND Music for Shakespeare's Romeo and MENDELSSOHN Concerto for Violin and Piano in MASON BATES Auditorium for Chamber SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, D minor Juliet Orchestra & Laptop Op. 103, “Egyptian” BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side SCHUBERT Symphony No.9 in C major, D.944 MASON BATES Cello Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. Story “The Great” BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 74, “Pathétique”

A mere fourteen years old when he composed Just in time for Valentine’s Day, your Colorado Driving dance rhythms link this trio of works In the Russian context, Pathétique suggests it, Mendelssohn’s Double Concerto in D minor Symphony offers a uniquely American look at by Beethoven and Mason Bates. Brett Mitchell “impassioned suffering,” an eerily suitable is one of his most brilliant early works. Guest the themes of love across multiple decades. conducts Beethoven’s energetic Symphony description for the psychological drama conductor Kevin John Edusei directs Herrmann’s “Scene d’amour” from No. 7, dubbed the “apotheosis of the dance” Tchaikovsky’s final symphony depicts. His Colorado Symphony Concertmaster Yumi Hitchcock’s Vertigo provides a passionate by Wagner for the spinning, whirling motion at death only nine days after the world premiere Hwang-Williams and guest pianist Anne Marie backing for one of cinema’s most powerful the heart of this constantly developing musical gives added weight to a defining work of the McDermott in a stunning combination of portrayals of romantic longing, while organism. The second movement—Allegretto Romantic period. Returning guest conductor mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor lends her unlikely forces as violin and piano dance, —stands alone as a powerful, haunting piece Peter Oundjian joins masterful pianist Stephen exquisite voice to Lieberson’s Neruda Songs, mimic, converse, and repeat in an electrifying of classical music and remains one of Hough, who brings his inspired styling to a collection of five sonnets written by Pablo performance. Schubert’s majestic Symphony Neruda tracing the arc of love’s evolution. Beethoven’s most well known works. Joshua Saint-Saëns exotic “Egyptian” Piano Concerto No. 9, known as “The Great,” is a powerfully Diamond’s Romeo and Juliet offers a musical Roman makes his Colorado Symphony debut No. 5, while the familiar tune to “America the melodic work brimming with influence from interpretation on Shakespeare’s seminal performing Mason Bates’ Cello Concerto Beautiful” resurfaces throughout Joan Tower’s Beethoven’s own 9th Symphony. Breathtaking romantic work while Bernstein’s Symphonic written especially for Roman. Bates’ baroque GRAMMY Award®-Winning Made in America. and full of life, this music is a joy to behold. Dances from West Side Story provides an thriller, Auditorium, haunts the orchestra with updated 20th-century look at the classic ghostly recordings of a baroque ensemble, Romeo and Juliet story. You won’t want to making it essentially a work for two orchestras miss our special Valentine’s Day performance —one live, one dead. on February 14. mussorgsky pictures FRI brahms symphony SAT tchaikovsky 1812 FRI berlioz symphonie FRI 3.29.19 4.13.19 4.26.19 5.10.19 at an exhibition 7.30PM no. 4 7.30PM overture fantastique Brett Mitchell, conductor Brett Mitchell, conductor Rossen Milanov, conductor 7.30PM Brett Mitchell, conductor 7.30PM Augustin Hadelich, violin Peter Cooper, oboe Avery Amereau, mezzo-soprano Conrad Tao, violin IVES Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting" VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Colorado Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director MISSY MAZZOLI Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) BARBER Violin Concerto, Op. 14 Thomas Tallis RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian Easter Overture RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition KEVIN PUTS Oboe Concerto BORODIN "Polovtsian Dances" from Prince Igor BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 TCHAIKOVSKY 1812, Overture solonelle, Op. 49 Take a stroll through an art exhibit with your Brett Mitchell’s inaugural Brahms performance Fire the cannons! Toll the bells! Tchaikovsky’s Brett Mitchell conducts your Colorado Colorado Symphony as we explore with your Colorado Symphony features a explosive 1812 Overture punctuates a Symphony in a contrasting program of works Mussorgsky’s crowning composition as musician favorite, Symphony No. 4. With performance featuring the music of prominent both old and new. Berlioz’s bombastic, orchestrated by Ravel. Featuring musical autumnal coloring and heroic character, Russian composers, including Borodin’s boisterous Symphonie fantastique is one of depictions of ten paintings by his late friend, Brahms’ last symphony is a work erupting “Polovtsian Dances,” Rimsky-Korsakov’s the first to tell a complete story through pure Viktor Hartmann, Mussorgsky’s work with passionate intensity. In contrast, Russian Easter Overture, and Prokofiev’s orchestral music as he details his own highlights varied moods and is connected Colorado Symphony Principal Oboist Peter Alexander Nevsky. The Colorado Symphony personal pursuit of Harriet Smithson, the throughout with a brilliant “Promenade” theme Cooper brings his warm, singing sound to the Chorus will shine in this Russian choral Shakespearean actress who later became his that gives the sense of an art lover sauntering Colorado premiere of Kevin Puts’ new Oboe spectacular under the direction of guest wife. Using a recurrent melodic theme to tie from piece to piece through a museum. 2018 Concerto, while Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia conductor Rossen Milanov. the five movements together, Berlioz Musical America Instrumentalist of the Year on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, a lush, foreshadows the Wagnerian Leitmotif in a and GRAMMY Award®-Winning violinist expansive work for strings, opens this programmatic work that shows the range of Augustin Hadelich returns to your Colorado must-see performance. human emotions. Featured soloist Conrad Tao Symphony, bringing his lyrical, singing style to performs Ravel’s Piano Concerto, a colorful Barber’s lush and virtuosic Violin Concerto, Gershwin-inspired work with American spirit while Ives’ Symphony No. 3, “The Camp and jazz flavors while Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia Meeting,” evokes memories from the (for Orbiting Spheres) contains elements of composer’s childhood through music of the era. Ravel’s impressionistic nature as it presents music in the shape of a solar system as a collection of rococo loops twist around each other within a larger orbit. danny elfman violin FRI carmina burana FRI 5.17.19 Brett Mitchell, conductor 5.24.19 patrick gaffney place concerto 7.30PM Mary Wilson, soprano 7.30PM featuring Sandy Cameron Christopher Pfund, tenor Christopher Dragon, conductor section 16 stamp baritone Sandy Cameron, violin Elliot Madore, Colorado Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolf, here HERMANN Suite from Psycho director, Colorado Children’s Chorale, Deborah RAVEL Mother Goose (complete ballet) Desantis, artistic director DANNY ELFMAN Concerto for Violin and ADAM SCHOENBERG American Symphony ORFF Carmina Burana Associate conductor Christopher Dragon Brett Mitchell and your Colorado Symphony leads your Colorado Symphony in a weekend close out the season with Carl Orff’s celebration of film score composers and those powerhouse Carmina Burana, a symphonic who influenced them. Herrmann’s ingenious exploration of love, lust, and the perils of use of strings conveys a “black and white earthly pleasures. Featuring the Colorado sound” on his suite from Psycho, which Symphony Chorus, Colorado Children’s mirrors the black and white images of Chorale, and a cast of soloists, Carmina Hitchcock’s haunting cinematic thriller. Ravel, Burana is a true spectacle and one of the who heavily influenced future generations of most well known pieces of the 20th century, film composers, originally wrote Mother Goose as a piano duet but later revised and combining powerful rhythms and robust expanded the original work into an vocals in a dynamic conclusion to an orchestrated piece. The program is capped by unforgettable season. Adam Schoenberg’s the legendary Danny Elfman, who composed American Symphony begins the program with the scores for treasured films such as Batman, a piece reminiscent of Copland and Bernstein The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Good as it reflects the hope of America’s potential. Will Hunting. Brilliant soloist Sandy Cameron performs the Colorado premiere of Elfman’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, “Eleven Eleven,” a piece she helped debut in 2017.