DOCSLIB.ORG

Fanfarecincinnati CSO 1018.Pdf

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Fanfarecincinnati CSO 1018.Pdf OCTOBER 2018 CONTENTS 14 Artistic Leadership: CONCERTS 42 Louis Langrée and Guest conductor John Morris Russell 25 CSO: Adams’ Dharma at Big Damon If It Sounds Good, It Is Good! Sur, Oct. 5–6 17 Gupton leads by JMR 37 Guest artists: Christopher the Cincinnati Rountree, conductor; Tracy Spotlight: CSO Principal Pops in a concert of orchestral 18 Silverman, electric violin; Adam Violist Christian Colberg Larsen, video artist blockbusters with a seasonal Spotlight: Employee of the twist, Haunted Hall, Oct. 12–14. 20 41 Pops: Haunted Hall, Year Hannah Johnson Celebrate an early Halloween Oct. 12–14 54 Directors & Advisors 42 Guest artist: Damon with magical music of the Pops Gupton, conductor in a hall with a haunted history, 57 Financial Support 45 CSO: The Heart of Don including selections from 63 Administration Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Quixote, Oct. 20–21 64 Coda 52 Guest artists: Christian Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Colberg, viola; Ilya Finkelshteyn, Mountain, Saint-Saëns’ Danse cello macabre, and much more. 52 CSO Principal 38 Viola Christian Redefining Colberg takes the role of FEATURES center stage to the violin in perform his own contemporary 12 CSO/CCM Diversity Fellows: Viola Concerto, Bravos Without Barriers music, Tracy “Don Quixote,” Silverman has 39 Q&A with Oct. 20–21, Christopher Rountree contributed in a concert significantly to the repertoire and 43 Q&A with Damon Gupton filled with three development of the six-string 53 Q&A with Ilya Finkelshteyn generations electric violin and what he calls worth of works “post-classical violin playing.” He’ll inspired by the fabled windmill- perform John Adams’ Dharma DEPARTMENTS fighting knight, including one by at Big Sur, music for which he Richard Strauss that features CSO also gave the world premiere, 6 A Letter from the President Principal Cello Ilya Finkelshteyn as Don Quixote and Mr. Colberg Oct. 5–6. Christopher Rountree 8 Your Concert Experience/ conducts. Frequently Asked Questions as Sancho Panza. Louis Langrée conducts. 10 Orchestra Roster 2 | FANFARE CINCINNATI | cincinnatisymphony.org FANFARE CINCINNATI STAFF: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops Vice President of Communications Chris Pinelo Director of Communications Diana Maria Lara Digital Communications Manager Lee Snow Communications Assistant Kayla Moore Editor/Layout McKibben Publications All contents © 2018–19. The contents cannot be reproduced in any manner, whole or in part, without written permission from CSO Principal Viola the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops. ON THE COVER Christian Colberg performs his own composition, the Viola Concerto, “Don Quixote,” with the CSO CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CINCINNATI and Louis Langrée Oct. 20–21 and plays the part of POPS Quixote’s sidekick Sancho Panza in Richard Strauss’ Music Hall Don Quixote. 1241 Elm Street Cincinnati, OH 45202 Administrative Offices: 513.621.1919 CINCINNATI MAGAZINE: [email protected] Advertising and Publishing Partners for Fanfare Cincinnati Box Office Publisher Music Hall Ivy Bayer 1241 Elm Street Production Director & IT Systems Administrator Cincinnati, OH 45202 Vu Luong 513.381.3300 Marketing Director [email protected] Chris Ohmer Advertising & Marketing Designer Group Sales Stephanie Youngquist 513.744.3590 Custom Publishing Account Manager [email protected] Maggie Wint Goecke TTY/TDD Senior Outside Account Representative Use TTY/TDD Relay Service 7-1-1 Laura Bowling Operations Director cincinnatisymphony.org | cincinnatipops.org Missy Beiting facebook.com/CincySymphony or /CincinnatiPops Business Coordinator Erica Birkle twitter.com/CincySymphony or /CincinnatiPops instagram.com/cincysymphony Advertising and Business Offices Carew Tower 441 Vine Street, Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45202 513.421.4300 RECYCLE FANFARE CINCINNATI Subscriptions: 1.800.846.4333 You are welcome to take this copy of cincinnatimagazine.com Fanfare Cincinnati home with you as a souvenir of your concert experience. Alternatively, please share Fanfare Cincinnati with a friend or leave it with an usher for recycling. Thank you! 4 | FANFARE CINCINNATI | cincinnatisymphony.org A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT—Jonathan Martin Dear Friends, tan region the size of Cincinnati to continu- maintains a full-time professional ing to fulfill It is an exciting time in the life of the orchestra when many larger mar- our mission Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra kets are not able to do so. The to seek and and Cincinnati Pops and we are answer is you. You are the driving share inspi- thrilled to have each of you on this force. We are successful because of ration. journey with us. The connection you. Please continue to make the With the with the community we serve is Orchestra a priority in your life CSO and paramount—it drives what we do. and as always, we welcome and MEMI, we Being able to sustain and grow a encourage your feedback. are proud strong orchestra speaks volumes The Orchestra is a treasured to be part of this community and about what Cincinnati values. community asset, but like orches- to serve the region in meaningful I am grateful to be living in a city tras across the country, we face ways. We look forward to see- where the arts are a priority. You a number of challenges from an ing you at CSO and Cincinnati make all of this possible. On behalf evolving and increasingly competi- Pops performances at Music Hall of the musicians, staff, Board mem- tive marketplace. The organization throughout the season and encour- bers of the CSO, and our Music and has begun a strategic planning pro- age you to invite friends, family Event Management, Inc. (MEMI) cess that will not only reveal a set of members and neighbors. subsidiary, I want to thank our goals for the years to come, but also audiences, volunteers and donors. a vision for the CSO and orchestral Best wishes, People from outside the area music in the 21st century. We look often wonder how a metropoli- forward to those conversations and 6 | FANFARE CINCINNATI | cincinnatisymphony.org in Corbett Tower, allowing full guided tour of this historic Your restoration of the original coved Cincinnati treasure. and stenciled ceiling. Historic details including transoms, CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS Concert alcoves, tracery windows, façade Take a deep dive! Beginning details, original doors, and one hour before CSO Experience marble flooring are once again subscription concerts, Classical on display. Conversations are the perfect way to get to know the music MUSIC HALL Originally built to house the and musicians on a program. Welcome to Music Hall, a May Festival, Music Hall has Program notes can be found at National Historic Landmark been home to the Cincinnati cincinnatisymphony.org. and the crown jewel of Over- Symphony since 1896. the-Rhine. Built in 1878, BRAVO SHOP this building is a welcoming Founded in 1895, the Cincinnati The Bravo Shop, located near beacon for the community Symphony Orchestra is the the escalators, features CSO and a pantheon of the arts for sixth oldest orchestra in the and Pops merchandise, audio generations to come. Reopened United States and represents recordings, and locally crafted in fall of 2017 following a the evolution of 200 years of items. Stop in and say hi! complete renovation, Music musical tradition in the Queen Hall’s legacy is ensured for City. The Cincinnati Orchestra CONCESSIONS decades to come. Association Company, founded Enjoy exciting options curated by 15 enthusiastic women by a council of Cincinnati The extensive renovation under the presidency of Mrs. tastemakers, including locally rediscovered numerous aspects William Howard Taft, sponsored roasted coffee, wine offerings, of the building. Windows have nine concerts in its inaugural delicious flavors from Findlay been reopened, including those season. Market and Divine’s European overlooking Washington Park, Chocolates. Skip the line by pre- now flooding the Lindner Visit the Society for the ordering drinks for intermission. Grand Foyer with natural light. Preservation of Music Hall at Note that drinks with ice are not Fourteen feet of additional spmhcincinnati.org to learn allowed in the auditorium during ceiling height were regained more about the storied history classical concerts. of Music Hall or schedule a 8 | FANFARE CINCINNATI | cincinnatisymphony.org LATE SEATING CHILDREN Frequently Out of consideration for CSO and Pops performances fellow patrons, late seating are recommended for children is not permitted. In some ages six and up. Out of Asked circumstances, including consideration for all audience Pops concerts, late seating members, children under six Questions is at the discretion of ushers will not be admitted to CSO and house staff. Latecomers, performances. For family including patrons leaving the concerts, booster seats are PARKING auditorium before or during available on a first-come, first- Subscribers are encouraged a performance, will be invited served basis in the Foyer. to reserve pre-paid parking to the P&G Founders Room in advance. Act early, as any to view the concert via video DEVICES remaining spaces will be monitors until an appropriate Please silence all noise-making released for single ticket buyers break in the program, when electronics before entering the the week of the concert. they may return to their seats. auditorium. Flash photography, Reserve your spot with the Box glowing screens, and audio/ Office at 513.381.3300. Cost ACCESSIBILITY video recording are prohibited is $15. Elevators connecting all floors, during concerts. a street-level accessible More parking information: entrance at the Box Office, LOST AND FOUND cincinnatisymphony.org/parking. increased wheelchair and Located at Guest Services in companion seating options, plus the Lindner Grand Foyer. For GUEST DROP-OFF LANE a new assistive listening device inquiries, call Cincinnati Arts The guest drop-off lane at the system are available. Listening Association at 513.744.3344. South End of the Hall, in front devices can be checked out at of the Box Office entrance, is the Guest Services counter, TICKETS open to guests with mobility located in the Lindner Grand Subscribers have unlimited challenges.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Joseph Kuipers Is One of the Rare Musical Voices of Today: the Fresh Sincerity of His Playing, Combined with Technical Sovereignty Over the Instrument
    “Joseph Kuipers is one of the rare musical voices of today: the fresh sincerity of his playing, combined with technical sovereignty over the instrument. He draws a dark, singing sound out of his Ceruti Cello, and creates lines that seem to float effortlessly.” Berliner Abend Post American cellist Joseph Kuipers is renowned for his creativity and versatility in his captivating performances on both modern and gut strings. Appearing at festivals and music centers around the globe, he has performed at the Ravinia Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Les Festival International du Domaine Forget, Kronberg Academy, Ascoli Piceno Festival, Carl Orff Festival, and the World Cello Congress. Equally at home with modern and baroque performance styles, and often juxtaposing them in concert programs, Joseph has worked extensively with living composers, among them Robert Cogan, Heinz Holliger, Helmut Lachenmann and Arvo Part: and has performed with the Ensemble für Neue Musik Basel, Neue Musik Ensemble Mannheim, Second Instrumental Unit, New York, and the Callithumpian Consort of Boston. Joseph is the Artistic Director of the Fredericksburg Music Festival where world renowned European classical musicians gather in historic Fredericksburg TX for a week of music making. In 2010 Joseph founded the Marinus Project an international collective of chamber musicians dedicated to the tradition of classical music in our time. Marinus is the “Ensemble in Residence” at Washington and Lee University and Eastern University. In April 2011 the Marinus Ensemble received a $200,000 unrestricted artist development grant to further the Marinus Project. Joseph completed his undergraduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where his primary teachers were Paul Katz for cello and Pozzi Escot for composition.
    [Show full text]
  • AS Level Performance Studies Topic Exploration Pack (John Adams)
    Performance Studies A LEVEL Performance Studies: John Adams Topic Exploration Pack September 2015 www.ocr.org.uk Topic Exploration Pack We will inform centres about any changes to the specification. We will also publish changes on our website. The latest version of our specification will always be the one on our website (www.ocr.org.uk) and this may differ from printed versions. Copyright © 2015 OCR. All rights reserved. Copyright OCR retains the copyright on all its publications, including the specifications. However, registered centres for OCR are permitted to copy material from this specification booklet for their own internal use. Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations is a Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England. Registered company number 3484466. Registered office: 1 Hills Road Cambridge CB1 2EU OCR is an exempt charity. 2 www.ocr.org.uk AS Level Performance Studies Contents John Adams Teacher Resource Pack ............................................................................................. 4 Background ..................................................................................................................................... 5 Adams’ Works ................................................................................................................................. 5 Fingerprints of Adams’ Style ........................................................................................................... 7 Influences ......................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • FOR RELEASE: January 22, 2014 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson ALAN GILBERT and the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 2014–15 SEASON New York
    FOR RELEASE: January 22, 2014 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 2014–15 SEASON SEASON OPENING: Alan Gilbert To Conduct U.S. Premiere–Philharmonic Co-Commission of UNSUK CHIN’s Clarinet Concerto, with KARI KRIIKKU, and MAHLER’s Symphony No. 1, September 23, 26–27, and 30 OPENING GALA CONCERT with JOSHUA BELL, JOSH GROBAN, and RENÉE FLEMING in La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema, September 16, Part of THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic __________________ Alan Gilbert To Conduct World Premieres by JOHN ADAMS, PETER EÖTVÖS, and CHRISTOPHER ROUSE U.S. Premiere–Philharmonic Co-Commission of THIERRY ESCAICH’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe VERDI’S REQUIEM New York Premiere Staging of HONEGGER’S JOAN OF ARC AT THE STAKE with MARION COTILLARD and Actors from the Comédie-Française Directed by Côme de Bellescize Conclusion of THE NIELSEN PROJECT with Composer’s 150th Birthday __________________ Violinist LISA BATIASHVILI Named The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Pianist INON BARNATAN Named the Philharmonic’s First Artist-in-Association CHRISTOPHER ROUSE’s Term Extended as The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence World Premiere of Thunderstuck; New York Premiere of Flute Concerto with Robert Langevin; Iscariot __________________ YO-YO MA in 15th-Anniversary Concert for Silk Road Ensemble and in Chinese New Year Concert and Gala with U.S. Premiere by ZHAO LIN CONTACT!, the New-Music Series: at SubCulture, Co-Presented with 92nd Street Y; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and on EUROPE / SPRING 2015 Tour DOHNÁNYI / DVOŘÁK: A Philharmonic Festival Conducting Debuts by SUSANNA MÄLKKI, JUANJO MENA, STÉPHANE DENÈVE, and THOMAS ADÈS in U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Season 20 Season 2011-2012
    Season 2020111111----2020202011112222 The Philadelphia Orchestra Thursday, March 229999,, at 8:00 FriFriFridayFri dayday,, March 303030,30 , at 222:002:00:00:00 Saturday, March 313131,31 , at 8:00 EsaEsa----PekkaPekka Salonen Conductor Leila Josefowicz Violin Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta I. Andante tranquillo II. Allegro III. Adagio IV. Allegro molto Intermission Salonen Violin Concerto I. Mirage II. Pulse I III. Pulse II IV. Adieu First Philadelphia Orchestra performances Debussy La Mer I. From Dawn to Midday at Sea II. Play of the Waves III. Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea This program runs approximately 1 hour, 55 minutes. Conductor and composer EsaEsa----PekkaPekka Salonen has been principal conductor and artistic advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London since 2008 and artistic director of the Baltic Sea Festival since 2003. He became conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2009, following 17 years at its helm as music director. In the 2011-12 season Mr. Salonen leads the Philharmonia in performances of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle as part of the “Infernal Dance: Inside the World of Béla Bartók” project, launched in January 2011. This season with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Mr. Salonen conducted the world premiere of the recently-discovered Shostakovich opera Orango. As a composer Mr. Salonen has completed commissions for the Finnish Radio Symphony, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, the North German Radio Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Présences Festival in Paris, and a piano concerto dedicated to, and premiered by, Yefim Bronfman. Mr. Salonen’s Violin Concerto, written for and premiered by Leila Josefowicz in 2009, received the 2012 Grawemeyer Award.
    [Show full text]
  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / September 12, 2017 Contact: Maggie Perkes [email protected], 510.841.2800
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / September 12, 2017 Contact: Maggie Perkes [email protected], 510.841.2800 http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/about/press/ Berkeley Symphony opens its 2017-18 season on October 5-6 with Music Director Joana Carneiro conducting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, Jazz Suite No. 1 by Shostakovich, the world premiere of William Gardiner’s cello concerto featuring Berkeley native Tessa Seymour, and John Adams’ Fearful Symmetries. (l to r: Joana Carneiro, by Rodrigo Souza; William Gardiner, by Jiyeon Kim; Tessa Seymour, per artist; John Adams, by Vern Evans) Berkeley Symphony opens its 2017-18 season at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley on Thursday, October 5 at 7p, followed by a repeat performance on Friday, October 6 at 8p in Hume Hall at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. These performances mark the return to the podium of Music Director Joana Carneiro following a maternity leave of absence. Maestra Carneiro leads the Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, the world premiere of a cello concerto by William Gardiner, Jazz Suite No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich, and John Adams’ Fearful Symmetries. Cellist Tessa Seymour, a Berkeley native, makes her debut with the Orchestra as the soloist in Gardiner’s cello concerto, which was commissioned by the Pacific Harmony Foundation. Berkeley Symphony presents Adams’ 1988 Fearful Symmetries in celebration of the composer’s 70th birthday year. Tessa Seymour made her televised Carnegie Hall debut in 2006 and has since been performing in Europe, Asia and the U.S., both as soloist and a chamber musician. Committed to a repertoire that cuts across genres and brings to life contemporary and established works alike, she has collaborated with and premiered the works of Matthias Pintscher, Krzysztof Penderecki, John Adams, David Ludwig, and Richard Danielpour.
    [Show full text]
  • The BPO Recommends: an Orchestral Listening Guide for Symphony Scholars
    The BPO Recommends: An Orchestral Listening Guide for Symphony Scholars There are so many great works for orchestra that it is impossible to list them all. So, this guide is by no means completely comprehensive. Instead, these selections are to help you dive head first into the orchestral repertoire. Hopefully you will love some, but maybe you won’t, and that’s ok! What we can guarantee though, is that this list views every corner of the repertoire. Please also refer to the attached exploration guide. Happy Listening! Composer Repertoire Adams, John The Dharma at Big Sur Harmonium Short Ride in a Fast Machine Bach, Johann Sebastian Brandenburg Concertos (Nos. 1-6) Mass in B minor Barber, Samuel Adagio for Strings Overture to School for Scandal Violin Concerto Bartók, Béla Concerto for Orchestra Cantata Profana Miraculous Mandarin Bates, Mason Anthology of Fantastic Zoology Mothership Beach, Amy Symphony in E minor Beethoven, Ludwig van Leonore Overture No. 3 Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor” Symphony No. 3, “Eroica” Symphony No. 5 Symphony No. 9, “Choral Berg, Alban Violin Concerto Wozzeck Berlioz, Hector Roman Carnival Overture Symphonie Fantastique Bernstein, Leonard Chichester Psalms Three Dances fro On The Town Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Bizet, Georges Carmen Suites Borodin, Alexander Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor The BPO Recommends: An Orchestral Listening Guide for Symphony Scholars Brahms, Johannes A German Requiem Hungarian Dances Symphony No. 1 Symphony No. 4 Britten, Benjamin Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes War Requiem Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Bruch, Max Violin Concerto No. 1 Bruckner, Anton Symphony No.
    [Show full text]
  • PRICE: at the Brand New Bradley Symphony $69 Per Performance Center! $30 Transportation Only
    PRICE: At the brand new Bradley Symphony $69 Per Performance Center! $30 Transportation only Our good friends at Cedar Ridge Community have invited us to join their group on trips to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Prelude Series. If you have never been to a MSO concert, why not give it a whirl…especially at such amazing prices? It is fasci- nating to watch the talented instrumentalists produce such a wonderful sound. Come along for one performance or the entire series. Give your ears a treat! Andreas Delf’s Return Frank Almond Plays Brunch November 5, 2021 Tour #7038 October 15, 2021 Tour #7037 Conductor Laureate Andreas Delfs conducts a program of great “Aeriality refers to the state of gliding adventure, beginning with one chapter of Wagner’s epic through the air, the music portrays the Gotterdammerung and ending with Humperdink’s take on the fairytale of feeling of freedom,” says composer a witch and a gingerbread house. Grieg’s piano concerto adds a touch of Anna Thorvaldsdottir, who opens this Norwegian folk. Sarah Kirkland Snider skillfully draws a wide arc, with concert. The program continues with throbbing brass accents and slashing chords driving up tension. Bruch’s violin concerto, performed by Frank Almond, returning to the MSO stage. Finally, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances is an orchestral suite Converging Landscapes with three movements. April 1, 2022 Tour #7040 In The Dharma at Big Sur, composer John Adamas Beethoven and Bruckner invokes the majesty of his adopted Pacific Coast and March 4, 2022 Tour #7039 the way “the current pounds and smashes… in a slow, “Helmchen performs Beethoven has a noble lazy rhythm of terrifying power.” Tracy Silverman, one of bearing and sound,” says the New York Times.
    [Show full text]
  • Erin Kogler Director of Communications Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 414.226.7831
    Erin Kogler Director of Communications Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 414.226.7831 KEN-DAVID MASUR and the MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2020-21 SEASON WORLD RENOWNED ARTISTS PERFORM 5-time Academy Award, 4-time Golden Globe, and 25-time Grammy Award winner JOHN WILLIAMS returns to the MSO for a one-night-only performance JOYCE DIDONATO to perform a one-night-only concert at the Bradley Symphony Center featuring music from her 2020 Grammy Award-winning album Songplay _______________________ CLASSICS SEASON 20-21 KEN-DAVID MASUR opens the Classics Season at the Bradley Symphony Center with LIVE MILWAUKEE PBS BROADCAST of BEETHOVEN’S NINTH SYMPHONY “ODE TO JOY” The Milwaukee Symphony celebrates the opening of the Bradley Symphony Center with ‘30s FESTIVAL featuring the music of Gershwin, Still, Korngold, Weill, and Florence Price, among others Ken-David Masur leads the MSO in a staged production of PEER GYNT, directed by Bill Barclay _____________________ POPS SEASON 20-21 KEN-DAVID MASUR conducts POPS performance PROHIBITION during ‘30s FESTIVAL POPS SEASON opens with performances by American singer, pianist, and music revivalist MICHAEL FEINSTEIN Season celebrates the music of ASTOR PIAZZOLLA, BARBRA STREISAND, and the MUSIC OF MOTOWN _____________________ HOLIDAYS AT THE MSO HOLIDAYS AT THE MSO include HOLIDAY POPS, HANDEL’S MESSIAH, CANADIAN BRASS, and VIENNA BOYS CHOIR __________________ FILM WITH OCHESTRA The MSO presents FILMS WITH ORCHESTRA, including SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, GHOSTBUSTERS, and THE PRINCESS BRIDE Milwaukee, Wis. 2/21/2020 - Music Director Ken-David Masur and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra announced plans today for the 2020.21 season, the first season in the Bradley Symphony Center.
    [Show full text]
  • Juilliard Orchestra John Adams , Conductor
    Monday Evening, December 10, 2018, at 7:30 The Juilliard School presents Juilliard Orchestra John Adams , Conductor KAIJA SAARIAHO (b. 1952) Ciel d’hiver (2013) JOHN ADAMS (b. 1947) Doctor Atomic Symphony (2007) The Laboratory Panic Trinity Intermission JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833 –97) Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (1884–85) Allegro non troppo Andante moderato Allegro giocoso Allegro energico e passionate Performance time: approximately 1 hour and 35 minutes, including an intermission The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not permitted in this auditorium. Information regarding gifts to the school may be obtained from the Juilliard School Development Office, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-6588; (212) 799-5000, ext. 278 (juilliard.edu/giving). Alice Tully Hall Please make certain that all electronic devices are turned off during the performance. Notes on the Program create timbres that subtly mix with those produced by acoustic instruments. by Thomas May This spectralist background, however, is Ciel d’hiver (2013) only one dimension of the unique aesthetic KAIJA SAARIAHO that Saariaho has developed. “Rich timbral Born October 14, 1952, in Helsinki, Finland nuances, focused musical material evolv - Currently resides in Paris ing into unique musical forms as well as works that call for careful listening remain “There was always one wise old guy with her musical fingerprints,” writes musicolo - a bald head, the male authority whose aes - gist Pirkko Moisala. Saariaho’s meticulous thetics or politics ruled … I felt squeezed attention to textures and resonances, to to be something I’m not,” Kaija Saariaho the weight of sound itself, taps into a rich once remarked, referring to the culture of potential that involves a great deal more her native Finland—with the imposing, than “color,” pushing beyond conventional patriarchal figure of (the very bald) Jean musical parameters .
    [Show full text]
  • MEDIA CONTACT: Scott Horton Communications 510­735­9200 [email protected]
    MEDIA CONTACT: Scott Horton Communications 510­735­9200 [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OAKLAND SYMPHONY CONCLUDES 2015­2016 SEASON WITH CONCERT OF ADAMS, STRAVINSKY, BARBER AND RAVEL WITH ELECTRIC VIOLIN SOLOIST TRACY SILVERMAN, SOPRANO NICOLE JOSEPH AND THE OAKLAND SYMPHONY CHORUS MAY 20 AT THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE Oakland, March 23, 2016 – The Oakland Symphony, Music Director and Conductor Michael Morgan, the Oakland Symphony Chorus and guest artists Tracy ​ ​ Silverman, electric violin, and soprano Nicole Joseph will conclude the ​ ​ ​ Symphony’s 2015­2016 season with a concert of music by John Adams, ​ Stravinsky, Barber and Ravel Friday, May 20, at 8 pm at the Paramount Theatre. ​ Mr. Silverman will perform John Adams’ The Dharma at Big Sur for orchestra and ​ ​ electric violin and Ms. Joseph, who was the winner of the 2015 Toland Vocal Arts Competition, will sing Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Completing the ​ ​ evening will be Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms with the Oakland Symphony ​ ​ Chorus, Lynne Morrow, Director; and Ravel’s La Valse. Pre­concert drinks, lobby ​ ​ entertainment and a talk begin at 7 pm and the concert is sponsored by Bell Investment Advisors.Tickets are priced $20­$75 and may be purchased at www.oaklandsymphony.org . ​ Bay Area composer John Adams composed The Dharma at Big Sur for the opening ​ ​ of Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in 2003, with Tracy Silverman as its electric violin soloist. In addition to an unusual solo instrument, its playful orchestration includes electronic samplers, ten gongs and two flower pots. Dharma’s sinuous solo passages and descriptive orchestral writing emerge as if ​ from a fog into crystal clear phrases in homage of American composers Lou Harrison and Terry Riley.
    [Show full text]
  • Final John Adams
    JOHN ADAMS Creative Chair of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Composer, conductor, and creative thinker - John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of their themes. Over the past 25 years, Adams’ music has played a decisive role in turning the tide of contemporary musical aesthetics away from academic modernism and toward a more expansive, expressive language, entirely characteristic of his New World surroundings. Born and raised in New England, Adams learned the clarinet from his father and played in marching bands and community orchestras during his formative years. He began composing at age ten and heard his first orchestral pieces performed while still a teenager. The intellectual and artistic traditions of New England, including his studies at Harvard University and attendance at Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts, helped shape him as an artist and thinker. After earning two degrees from Harvard, he moved to Northern California in 1971 and has since lived in the San Francisco Bay area. Adams taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for ten years before becoming composer-in-residence of the San Francisco Symphony (1982-85) and creator of the orchestra’s highly successful and controversial “New and Unusual Music” series. Several of Adams’ landmark orchestral works were written for and premiered by the San Francisco Symphony, including Harmonium (1980-81), Grand Pianola Music (1982), Harmonielehre (1984-85), and El Dorado (1991). In 1985, Adams began a collaboration with poet Alice Goodman and stage director Peter Sellars that resulted in two groundbreaking operas: Nixon in China (1987) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1991).
    [Show full text]
  • Scheherazade.2, Dramatic Symphony for Violin and Orchestra I
    23 Season 2019-2020 Thursday, September 26, at 7:30 The Philadelphia Orchestra Friday, September 27, at 2:00 Saturday, September 28, John Adams Conductor at 8:00 Leila Josefowicz Violin Ravel Alborada del gracioso Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale I. Feast at the Emperor’s Palace II. The Two Nightingales III. Illness and Recovery of the Emperor of China Intermission Adams Scheherazade.2, Dramatic Symphony for Violin and Orchestra I. Tale of the Wise Young Woman—Pursuit by the True Believers II. A Long Desire (Love Scene) III. Scheherazade and the Men with Beards IV. Escape, Flight, Sanctuary Chester Englander, cimbalom First Philadelphia Orchestra performances This program runs approximately 1 hour, 50 minutes. These concerts are sponsored by Gretchen and M. Roy Jackson. These concerts are part of the Orchestra’s WomenNOW celebration. Philadelphia Orchestra concerts are broadcast on WRTI 90.1 FM on Sunday afternoons at 1 PM, and are repeated on Monday evenings at 7 PM on WRTI HD 2. Visit www.wrti.org to listen live or for more details. 24 25 The Philadelphia Orchestra Jessica Griffin The Philadelphia Orchestra community centers, the Mann Through concerts, tours, is one of the world’s Center to Penn’s Landing, residencies, and recordings, preeminent orchestras. classrooms to hospitals, and the Orchestra is a global It strives to share the over the airwaves and online. ambassador. It performs transformative power of The Orchestra continues annually at Carnegie Hall, music with the widest to discover new and the Saratoga Performing possible audience, and to inventive ways to nurture its Arts Center, and the Bravo! create joy, connection, and relationship with loyal patrons.
    [Show full text]