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SYMPHONY. Unexpected! 2015/16 Season THIS IS OUR “That’s not at all what I expected!” Fun Side! Hang around after any of our concerts, parties or community events, and you will hear that phrase echoed by attendees. This upcoming season offers nearly 40 weeks of The Phoenix Symphony in concert, along with impactful community engagement and unique experiences that are simply…unexpected. What you can expect from this brochure are descriptions of the exciting concerts and guests artists we’ve planned for you this year. But what is new this season is a glimpse into the amazing experiences you can enjoy with The Phoenix Symphony, from intimate parties to spectacular celebrations, outreach in hospitals to homeless shelters, and unparalleled events like insightful pre-concert chats, private rehearsals, gripping multi-media concerts, delightful dining and signature cocktails. On that note, raise your Titotini and turn the page to see our fun side. Cheers to the 2015/2016 Season and Symphony Unexpected! UNEXPECTED PROGRAMMING What’s the last thing you would expect to see at The Phoenix Symphony? The Beatles? A concert dedicated to Star Wars? If that’s the last thing you would expect then you’re in for a surprise! ClassicsSERIES Opening Night! Tito Muñoz conducts: BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO. 9 Symphony Hall September 18, 2015 | 7:30 pm September 19, 2015 | 7:30 pm Concert Repertoire Tito Muñoz, conductor Andrea Shokery, soprano Beth Lytwynec, mezzo soprano Kevin Ray, tenor Kevin Deas, bass baritone The Phoenix Symphony Chorus Adam Schoenberg: American Symphony Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 “Choral” Maestro Tito Muñoz debuts his second season as The Phoenix Symphony’s Virginia G. Piper Music Director with a bold and powerful concert. Join Maestro Muñoz in this grand program as he leads The Phoenix Symphony, UNEXPECTED INSIGHT The Phoenix Symphony Chorus and talented soloists in Beethoven’s final and Arrive early and get the inside scoop on the music most celebrated masterpiece, Symphony No. 9, featuring the famous “Ode to Joy.” This Opening Night program also features American Symphony by Adam from the maestro and guest artists before every Schoenberg, one of the most celebrated young composers of our time whose classical concert. music is described by The New York Times as full of “mystery and sensuality.” ClassicsSERIES RESPIGHI’S BRAHMS’ ClassicsSERIES Symphony No. 2 Symphony Hall Continuing The Phoenix Symphony’s Classics season, Tito November 20, 2015 | 11:00 am* Muñoz leads the orchestra in Brahms’ Symphony No. 2. After Pines and Fountains of Rome November 20, 2015 | 7:30 pm waiting many years to complete his first symphony, Brahms Symphony Hall October 9, 2015 | 11:00 am* November 21, 2015 | 7:30 pm produced his second symphony almost overnight. The lilting October 9, 2015 | 7:30 pm Symphony No. 2 is generally regarded as the most genial and October 10, 2015 | 7:30 pm Concert Repertoire relaxed of Brahms’ four works in the genre, but its finale is Tito Muñoz, conductor jubilant and electrifying. The program opens with Brahms’ Concert Repertoire Jinjoo Cho, violin ebullient Academic Festival Overture and 26-year-old South Michael Christie, conductor Korean violinist Jinjoo Cho, winner of the 2014 International Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, op. 80 Victoria Vargos, mezzo soprano Violin Competition of Indianapolis, plays Stravinsky’s Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D Major for Violin neoclassical Violin Concerto. Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino and Orchestra Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 73 Daron Hagen: Symphony No. 5 – World premiere *Coffee Classics performances feature one hour of music selected from the weekend’s program. Ottorino Respighi: Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome) Ottorino Respighi: Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) UNEXPECTED COMMUNITY Music Director Laureate Michael Christie returns to conduct Ottorino The Phoenix Symphony believes that music Respighi’s symphonic tone poems Fountains of Rome, romancing Rome’s famous fountains at different times of the day, and Pines of Rome, can benefit everyone. That’s why we put our depicting pine trees in different locations in Rome. The program also emphasis on the community. We visit schools, features Verdi’s powerful Overture to his opera La forza del destino homeless shelters and hospitals throughout (The Force of Destiny) and the world premiere of Symphony No. 5 by Daron Hagen, recipient of the 2014 American Academy of Arts and the Valley and bring the gift of music. Letters Award, a work commissioned specifically for performance by The Phoenix Symphony Commissioning Club. *Coffee Classics performances feature one hour of music selected from the weekend’s program. ClassicsSERIES ClassicsSERIES MASTERFUL Mozart BEETHOVEN’S Symphony Hall January 8, 2016 | 11:00 am* January 8, 2016 | 7:30 pm Symphony No. 7 January 9, 2016 | 7:30 pm “With a flourish of his baton, Scottsdale Center for Concert Repertoire maestro Tito Muñoz transports Concert Repertoire the Performing Arts Tito Muñoz, conductor | The Phoenix Symphony into Tito Muñoz, conductor January 21, 2016 7:30 pm* Ah Young Hong, soprano the 21st century.” Shai Wosner, piano The Phoenix Symphony Chorus Symphony Hall – Phoenix Magazine Andrew Norman: Unstuck Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to Le nozze di Figaro January 22, 2016 | 11:00 am** Francis Poulenc: Gloria “The Orchestra was altogether (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492 January 22, 2016 | 7:30 pm Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto No. 20 in D minor January 23, 2016 | 7:30 pm brilliant; a grand fusion of harps, for Piano & Orchestra, K. 466 in A Major, op. 92 strings, horns and percussion.” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik Tito Muñoz brings a second offering of Beethoven to The Phoenix Symphony’s Classics season with – Broadway World (A Little Serenade) K. 525 Symphony No. 7, which Beethoven felt was one of his best works. Primarily known for the hypnotic Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543 and beautiful second movement that has been featured in many film scores including the Academy Maestro Muñoz presents a rare treat of an all-Mozart program with pieces composed Award-Winning The King’s Speech, the symphony is both stirring and inspirational. Continuing to during the prolific and final years of Mozart’s short life. Symphony No. 39, with introduce patrons of The Phoenix Symphony to new young composers, Maestro Muñoz opens the its warm yet dramatic tone, is sublimely beautiful. Internationally recognized program with Andrew Norman’s new kinetic work, Unstuck, which musically documents his ability pianist Shai Wosner, a BBC New Generation Artist, will make his Arizona debut to overcome writer’s block. Norman, a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music and composer UNEXPECTED PRAISE performing the enigmatic Piano Concerto No. 20 in a program that also features for famed artists like Emanuel Ax, is recognized as one of the most compelling musical voices of his generation. The program also highlights Poulenc’s lighthearted but spiritual Gloria featuring Not only do our patrons love The Symphony, the delightful and popular Eine kleine Nachtmusik and the whimsical overture The Phoenix Symphony Chorus. but so does the media. to the operatic comedy Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). *Coffee Classics performances feature one hour of music selected from the weekend’s program. *This concert is part of the Scottsdale Series and can be purchased in the Scottsdale Series Subscription or individually. **Coffee Classics performances feature one hour of music selected from the weekend’s program. ClassicsSERIES RAVEL’S HAYDN’S Symphony Hall Boléro Symphony Hall “Nelsonmesse” March 4, 2016 | 7:30 pm March 18, 2016 | 11:00 am* March 5, 2016 | 7:30 pm March 18, 2016 | 7:30 pm March 19, 2016 | 7:30 pm Concert Repertoire Andrew Grams, conductor Concert Repertoire Pascal Roge, piano Tito Muñoz, conductor The Phoenix Symphony Chorus Hector Berlioz: Overture to Le Corsaire, op. 21 Camille Saint-Saëns: Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Piano & Orchestra, op. 22 Sean Shepherd: Magiya Maurice Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) Alberto Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, op. 23 Maurice Ravel: Boléro Joseph Haydn: Mass No. 11 in D minor, “Nelsonmesse” (Lord Nelson Mass)** Marice Ravel: Boléro (only in March 18, 2016 11:00 am performance) One of The Phoenix Symphony’s favorite guest conductors, Andrew Grams, returns to lead Maurice Ravel’s most famous work, Boléro. The crowd Tito Muñoz continues his creative leadership with this diverse program. pleasing Boléro delights through the longest-sustained single crescendo Arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition, “Nelsonmesse,” or Missa in of any orchestral work and inspires a visceral and sensual response. Pascal Agustiis, is one of six masses Haydn wrote late in his career. Transporting Roge, whose name is synonymous with the best piano performance of listeners from the greatest depths of despair to great joy, this choral the French repertoire in the world today, also joins The Phoenix Symphony masterpiece is not to be missed. playing Saint-Saëns’ Concerto No. 2. Featuring another young American composer, the program begins with Magiya by Sean Shepherd, “an exciting composer of the new American generation,” according to The New York Times. Magiya, or Magic, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the BBC, is a complex fanfare full of urgency and drive. The program also includes the exciting Variaciones concertantes by Ginastera featuring multiple virtuosic solos. UNEXPECTED CONVERSATION *Coffee Classics performances feature one hour of music selected from the weekend’s program. Get to know The Phoenix Symphony conductors and guest artists better **Ravel’s Boléro will be performed in lieu of “Nelsonmesse” for the Coffee Classics performance. Steve Hanusofski, Associate Principal & Bass Clarinet by attending Meet the Artist Luncheons that include a plated lunch and Tessa Gotman Bock, Second Violin question and answer session after each Coffee Classics concert.