Subscription packages start at $69 Subscribe today! 613-947-7000 x620 | www.nac-cna.ca/subscribe Vivaldi’s F-ª ª2ª our Seasons Beethoven’s 9th Pinchas Zukerman | Music Director *ª ªuª )ªEmanuel Ax ,­­ &3­ to the 2010-2011 season Cover photo: Kenn Taylor >­ ¬ ­ Hear how it allArtistry plays out and Excellence The symphony is a careful balancing of elements: musicianship, composition, programming, performance, and direction – all intensified in front of a live audience. An extraordinary symphony is created when these elements combine just so, becoming a celebration, an experience that resonates, infusing, and informing your daily life. And this year, I assure you, the musical stars are aligned. At the heart of it all, we have the incomparable NAC Orchestra. This amazing year opens with the Mozart-Haydn festival, a tribute to an unparalleled and unique musical friendship. The season is highlighted by Beethoven’s 9th and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and it celebrates remarkable guest artists, including Emanuel Ax in recital, Cirque de la Symphonie and a Canadian Tenors Christmas. Combine that with some of the savviest audiences anywhere, and you have a truly spectacular season – one that I look forward to immensely. I hope you do, too. Pinchas Zukerman | Music Director NAC Orchestra on Tour – Instrument Shipping Crate Exclusive Subscriber Benefits Subscribing is the most rewarding way to enjoy the NAC Orchestra! Get access to the best seats for our 2010-2011 season before tickets goBest on sale to theSeats general public. Series subscribers can renew their seats year after year and have priority to change their series or seats. Subscribers also have a special priority week (beginning August 30) to purchase tickets to other great shows at the NAC Box Office ahead of the public on-sale date. 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He has taste, and, what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition.” The speaker was none other than Joseph Haydn, the most highly respected composer of his time. The musical dialogue that would grow between the two soon became the beating heart of a glorious and historically unique friendship. Join Pinchas Zukerman, the NAC Orchestra and incredible guest artists Emanuel Ax, Jeffrey Kahane and more for the Mozart-Haydn Festival and celebrate the music and history that connected these master composers. 4 Wednesday Friday Saturday Wednesday Thursday ....................... ....................... ....................... ....................... ....................... September September September September September 22 2010 1 24 2010 2 25 2010 3 29 2010 4 30 2010 5 EMANUEL AX & MOZART’S THE CONCERTO A PIANO MOZART’S MOZART SERENADE ACCORDING TO CELEBRATION TRIPLE CROWN A Bostonian Bravo Series concert A Bostonian Bravo Series concert PINCHAS, LIVE! A Mark Motors Audi Signature A Mark Motors Audi Signature Pinchas Zukerman, conductor/violin Pinchas Zukerman, conductor Series concert Series concert PresentEd in ENglish Only Emanuel Ax, piano Juho Pohjonen, piano Pinchas Zukerman, conductor Pinchas Zukerman, conductor Pinchas Zukerman, conductor/violin Jeffrey Kahane, piano/conductor MOZART Sonata for Violin and Piano, MOZART Piano and Wind Quintet MOZART Symphony No. 39 Eric Friesen, host Shai Wosner, piano K. 454 MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 MOZART Symphony No. 40 Benjamin Hochman, piano MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART Serenade No. 10, “Gran Partita” MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3 MOZART Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” MOZART Serenade No. 7, “Haffner” HAYDN Symphony No. 101, It is the transcendent Adagio of MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24 No one disputes that Mozart’s awe- “The Clock” Mozart’s Serenade for 13 Instruments The third of five violin concertos MOZART Concerto for Two Pianos inspiring final trilogy of symphonies “Ax’s technique was effortless – real that unnerves Salieri in Peter Mozart composed when he was just HAYDN Symphony No. 98 is his crowning achievement in that pianissimos, perfectly poised trills, a Schaffer’s Amadeus – filling him “with a teen is the fascinating subject of Wolfgang wasn’t the only fortepiano form. Though it was composed when completely idiomatic first-movement such unfulfillable longing. It seemed this special Festival event, a behind- prodigy in the Mozart family; there Mozart’s fortunes had crumbled, cadenza, and soft-as-silk legato,” to me I was hearing the voice of the-score look at an elegant work. was also his sister Nannerl. Together Symphony No. 39 betrays none of enthused San Francisco Classical God.” The composer took a genre After he chats about the music with they performed his brilliant “double” his woes. Just one month later, he Voice about this master interpreter normally relegated to background writer/broadcaster Eric Friesen, concerto (the first of this genre) in completed Symphony No. 40 – a of Mozart. In this performance of the status in aristocratic households and Maestro Zukerman – who knows a Salzburg in late 1780. After moving to haunting masterpiece that continues Piano Concerto No. 22 listen especially wrought musical gold from it. Plus thing or two about violin concertos Vienna a year later – with his creative to move listeners today. And a mere for the exquisite slow movement, the amazing Canadian debut of Juho – conducts the NAC Orchestra and juices flowing freely – Mozart wrote 16 days thereafter, he gave the which Mozart had to encore at the Pohjonen playing Mozart’s elegant solos from the podium. The charming 12 piano concertos in three years, world his noble Symphony No. 41, premiere. Bracketing the concerto are Piano Concerto No. 12. “Haffner” Serenade, composed including No. 24, “an explosion of the “Jupiter”, aptly named for the king Mozart’s grandest violin sonata and for a wedding celebration in the dark, tragic, passionate emotions,” of the gods. “Experiencing all three Pre-Concert Chat (in English): Writer Haydn’s endlessly inventive “Clock” household of the prominent Haffners according to musicologist Alfred symphonies together,” says Maestro and host of CBC’s Ideas Paul Kennedy symphony, nicknamed for its tick- of Salzburg, pairs beautifully in this Einstein. As with other works composed Zukerman, “creates one powerful, tocking second movement. all-Amadeus concert. upon Mozart’s death, Haydn’s emotional arc, as if they were all Symphony No. 98 is like “a private one glorious work.” Pre-Concert Chat (in English): Pre-Concert Chat (in French): Requiem for his friend,” according to Author and Maclean’s columnist Jean-Jacques Van Vlasselaer Pre-Concert Music: the late music critic Michael Steinberg. Paul Wells Pianist Jeffrey Kahane and members of Post-Concert Talkback: Pre-Concert Chat (in English): the NAC Orchestra CBC’s Bill Richardson hosts Writer and host of CBC’s I Hear Music Pinchas Zukerman and Emanuel Ax Robert Harris Thursday, September 23, noon Friday, September 24, noon CHAMBER MUSIC Mozart String Quartet No. 20, K. 499, “Hoffmeister” Haydn String Quartet No. 30, Op. 33, No. 2, “Joke” Escher Quartet – Rideau Chapel, National Gallery of Canada Haydn String Quartet No. 35, Op. 42 Mozart String Quartet No. 19, K. 465, “Dissonance” 5 Wednesday Signature series A PIANO CELEBRATION subscribers will attend Pinchas Zukerman, conductor Shai Wosner, piano the Wednesday, Jeffrey Kahane, piano/conductor Benjamin Hochman, piano September 29 concert MOZART Piano Concerto No.