PCPA Theaterfest presents
Songs for a New World, a musical experience with live band on stage. Jason Robert Browns’ musical explores life’s emotions: risk, fear, hope, dreams, and love in a range of musical styles including rock, folk, gospel, and blues.
It plays August 27 – September 12, Solvang Festival Theater. For more information visit www.pcpa.org or call 922-8313.
Free concert sponsored by Santa Barbara Sister Cities and the Santa Barbara Music Club. Program includes performances by Carol Ann Manzi, The Inner Life Gospel Choir, Shakuhachi (flute), Greek Folk songs by George Mamalakis (piano) and Patti Stathis-Langel (alto). The concert will focus on bringing all communities together and reaffirming our hope for world peace.
General public $43.00 - $53.00UCSB Students $21.00
“Pilobolus is a mind-blowing troupe of wildly creative and physically daring dancers who leap, fly, intertwine and break all the rules.” Newsday“Grace meets physical agility to create movement that is as lyrical as it is astonishing.” The Sunday OregonianNow in its 40th year of artmaking, the indefatigable dance-theater phenomenon Pilobolus continues to astound, expanding and refining its physical vocabulary to produce a body of more than 100 choreographic works that are as protean and surprising as ever. A deeply collaborative practice and unique weight-sharing approach to partnering have made Pilobolus the most popular modern dance company in the country. Don’t miss this astonishing American ensemble as Pilobolus “converts bodies into interlocking and interchangeable parts, erecting structures on stage that are closer to sculpture than dance” (Newsweek).
for ticket information please call box office at (805)893-3535 or visit https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1857
General public $43.00 - $73.00UCSB Students $28.00An Evening of Bluegrass and Banjo“Steve Martin [is] a first-rate bluegrass artist…The sextet of Martin and the hirsute, lightning-fingered Steep Canyon Rangers went through a boisterous, rollicking, frolicking set that was transcendent…Martin, throughout, was polished, poised, and hilarious.” Vanity FairLegendary comedian Steve Martin has proven equally adept as an actor, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and now banjo player and composer. His first all-music release, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo (featuring pals Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Earl Scruggs, and others), won the 2010 Grammy® Award for Best Bluegrass Album and spent 31 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard bluegrass chart. One of America’s most beloved performers, Martin will be joined in an unforgettable evening of laughter and music by North Carolina bluegrass band the Steep Canyon Rangers.
Tickets available online at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or by calling (805)893-3535
General public $33.00 - $53.00UCSB Students $23.00
“Reggae’s favorite son.” Shanghai DailyIn the wake of dual successes – the 2006 Grammy® Award-winning album Love Is My Religion and his newest Grammy® Award-winning CD Family Time – beloved reggae scion Ziggy Marley embraces both the spiritual and emotional side of life performing music that “people need to hear.” His easygoing message delivers themes of love, responsibility, unity and freedom in fun-filled tunes that resonate with die-hard Marley fans while introducing today’s youngest generation to reggae. “This [music] is from my heart,” says Marley – the only thing he finds more joyful than making it is sharing it with the world.
General public $15.00UCSB Students $10.00
“She has talent – magical, sly, cumulative – that most writers would kill for.” GuardianPulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants with a compelling, universal fluency that conveys the oldest cultural conflicts in the most immediate fashion. She is the author of the award-winning collection Interpreter of Maladies and the novel turned film The Namesake. Her most recent book of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, received the prestigious Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Lahiri will discuss her recent work and plots “as elegantly constructed as a fine proof in mathematics” (The New York Times).Books will be available for purchase and signing.
tickets available online at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or by calling (805)893-3535
Saturday, October 16th and Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Susanna Phillips, sopranoElise Quagliata, mezzo-sopranoBryan Griffin, tenorJason Grant, bass-baritoneSanta Barbara Choral Society, Westmont College Choir and Santa Barbara Quire of VoycesChorus directed by JoAnne WassermanBeethoven: Consecration of the House OvertureBeethoven: Symphony No. 9
The season opens with Beethoven’s majestic Ninth Symphony, a towering masterpiece that affirms our common humanity. This is the first performance of Beethoven’s eloquent plea for universal brotherhood in the renovated, acoustically refined Granada. Nir Kabaretti leads the Symphony, Santa Barbara Choral Society, Westmont College Choir, Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces and four guest vocal soloists. The program also includes the composer’s dramatic Consecration of the House Overture.
Date & Time: Saturday, October 16th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, October 17th at 3:00 pm (with a pre-concert lecture, "Music Behind the Music," beginning at 2:00 pm)
Location: The Granada, 1214 State St., Santa Barbara
To purchase subscriptions to the Symphony’s 2010-2011 Season, call the Santa Barbara Symphony Office at (805) 898-9386. Single tickets and subscriptions are also available online at www.thesymphony.org.
General public $40.00UCSB Students $18.00
Commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad!DELUSION“Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignance – a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace” Rolling Stone“DELUSION ranks with Anderson’s best…smart, funny, emotionally engaging, and flat-out beautiful.” George Straight, VancouverLaurie Anderson is a pioneering storyteller whose ever-intriguing convergence of technology, violin, visuals, and voice creates spellbinding tales. A phantasmagoric world made up of short mystery plays, her latest work is activated by brooding, deeply affecting music redolent of Tibetan temple horns and Arabic strings, performed by Anderson on electronically enhanced violin. A Homeric epic about longing, identity, and memory, DELUSION invokes both humor and terror, conjuring up elves, mysteries, ghost ships, and dead relatives to spin poetic stories and imagery into gold.Pre-event Wine & Cheese Party - $8
JOHN WILLIAMSGuitar In a Solo Recital
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Five Preludes
Leo Brouwer: El Decameron Negro
Francis Bebey: O Bia
John Williams:From a Bird (Nos. 1, 2 and 3)Hello Francis
Agustín Barrios Mangoré:La CatedralJulia FloridaVals No. 3 and No. 4Sueño en la Floresta
Sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board
John Williams “is recognized as one of, if not the greatest, classical guitarists of his time...” (The Sentinal, U.K.) He was taught by his father, afterwards attending summer courses with Andrés Segovia, and studying music at the Royal College of Music in London. He has since toured the world playing solo and with orchestra and regularly on radio and TV. Williams has collaborated with musicians including Julian Bream, Itzhak Perlman, André Previn, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth and Daniel Barenboim.
Tickets $30, $40. Single tickets on sale 9/17/2010 through the Lobero Theatre box office. Call 805-963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com
For more information, visit www.camasb.org
An Evening with The New Yorker Music Critic Alex Ross“Ross is a supremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other.” TimeNew Yorker music critic Alex Ross is the author of The Rest Is Noise, an astonishing history of the 20th century as told through its music. A New York Times Top 10 Book, Noisealso won a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Guardian First Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Ross will deliver an audio-rich lecture based on a chapter of his new book, Listen to This, titled Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History – an extraordinary tale of the interconnectedness of musical language and the universality of human emotion.Books will be available for purchase and signing.
General public $28.00 - $48.00UCSB Students $21.00
¡Viva Mexico! Celebrating 200 Years of Mexican Independence“Mariachi is Mexico’s only true surviving folkloric musical idiom. Mariachi Los Camperos has raised the standards of that music to an art form.” The Capital TimesGrammy® Award-winner Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano commemorates its 50th anniversary and Mexico’s bicentennial with a special program that tells the story of Mexican independence through mariachi favorites including "Viva Mexico", "Mexico Lindo", "La Bamba", "Ave Maria", "La Cucaracha" and many more. Led by Natividad “Nati” Cano, the Los Angeles-based group is today considered by many to be the finest mariachi ensemble in the world. A traditionalist and a visionary, Nati Cano is the driving force behind the mariachi tradition, both mirroring and shaping the history of the music.
General public $38.00 - $68.00UCSB Students $21.00
Stories by HeartSanta Barbara premiere!“Is there another actor breathing who’s as sweetly charming as John Lithgow? Bravura storytelling.” VarietyIn his one man theatrical memoir, Stories by Heart, Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor John Lithgow tells of reading P.G. Wodehouse to his father when he was gravely ill – the same story his father read to him 50 years before. Portraying nine outrageous characters with zany abandon, Lithgow discovers the healing power of storytelling in the sound of his father’s laughter – and so does the audience through this funny and touching performance. A tour-de-force reflection on the essence of storytelling, Stories by Heart reveals “Lithgow at his heartwarming best” (Reuters).
DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE
DANIEL HARDING, ConductorRUDOLF BUCHBINDER, Piano
Robert Schumann: Manfred, Op. 115: Overture
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Sponsor: Nancy & Kent WoodCo-Sponsor: Suzanne BockCo-Sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board
Celebrating 462 years of music-making in 2010, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden was founded in 1548 by Prince Elector Moritz von Sachsen. This historic orchestra is joined by pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, acclaimed for his “intelligent virtuosity, superb ear for color, and sixth sense for hitting upon the right tempo...” (Classics Today)
Tickets $35, $45, $60, $85, $100. Single tickets on sale 9/17/2010 through The Granada box office. Call 805-899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.org
General public $38.00 - $48.00UCSB Students $21.00
Santa Barbara premiere!TOBARI – as if in an inexhaustible flux Directed, Choreographed and Designed byUshio Amagatsu“The singular glory of Sankai Juku is that it achieves almost pure metaphor.” Time“One of the most original and startling dance theater groups to be seen…” The New York Times“…Amagatsu provided a celebration of life – genuine, spiritual, glorious…” Pittsburgh GazetteJapan’s most famous butoh dance company Sankai Juku creates dreamlike performances that weave meticulous, hypnotic movement with breathtaking large-scale staging. For more than 20 years, the sublime visual spectacles created by director and choreographer Ushio Amagatsu convey a profound elegance, refinement, technical precision, and emotional depth that is outdone once again in the sublime new work Tobari, a meditation on birth, death and rebirth of life “as if in an inexhaustible flux.” Dance Magazine raves “[Ushio Amagatsu] conveys the infinitely minute yet spellbinding transformations of a world in constant metamorphosis.”
Tickets: 805.899.2222 / www.granadasb.org$25-$55; Kids 50% Off!
Two TONY Winners Hit The Road Together!The Acting Company in association with The Guthrie Theater perform Romeo and Juliet at The Granada - a Santa Barbara first!
In Shakespeare’s iconic romantic tragedy of innocent young lovers falling victim to family hatred and cruel destiny, swords clash, everlasting love is promised and a treacherous sleeping potion is swallowed in the greatest love story of all time. Young love has never been so delightful or as dangerous as in this stirring new production.
Romeo and Juliet exquisitely embodies the brief joy of youthful passion and ecstasy. Timeless and deeply moving, the title characters love each other passionately as only teenagers can while their families’ mutual disdain and prejudice lead to revenge and an irreversible fate.
About The Acting CompanySince its founding by the legendary John Houseman and Margot Harley in 1972, The Acting Company has performed 135 productions touring to 48 states and ten foreign countries, and has earned the reputation of the most respected and praised touring repertory theater in America. With this presentation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The Acting Company continues its 36-year tradition of bringing touring classical productions, talented actors and teaching artists into communities across America. Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Jesse L. Martin, Frances Conroy, David Ogden Stiers, Jeffrey Wright and Rainn Wilson are but a handful of actors whose careers have been developed by The Acting Company. Honored by the TONY Awards for Excellence in Theater, the Company has won the Obie Award, Citibank’s Excellence in Education and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.
CHRISTOPHER O'RILEYPiano In Recital
All-Schumann Program200th Anniversary Year of Schumann's Birth
Robert Schumann:Arabesque, Op. 18Kreisleriana, Op. 16Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17
Sponsor: Jeanne Thayer
Pianist and host of NPR’s “From the Top” for the last 10 years, Christopher O’Riley has dazzled the world on stage, on the radio and in his recordings. His repertoire spans classical styles, from Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel and Busoni to contemporary artists such as Radiohead, Nirvana, Pink Floyd and Elliott Smith. “O’Riley’s playing is laced with an otherworldly elegance that can’t be duplicated.” (Spendid.com)
Saturday, November 13th and Sunday, November 14th, 2010
Sergio Tiempo, pianoRimsky Korsakov: ScheherazadeTchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Old favorites will be infused with new excitement when maestro Kabaretti leads the orchestra in two of the most popular pieces from the romantic repertory. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, which recreates the spell woven by a legendary storyteller, will entrance audiences with its gorgeous melodies and exotic orchestral colors. It will be followed by Tchaikovsky’s distinctly dramatic and intensely lyrical First Piano Concerto. Argentine-Venezuelan soloist Sergio Tiempo, a protégé of Martha Argerich, is heralded by critics and fellow musicians as one of the outstanding pianists of his generation.
Date & Time: Saturday, November 13th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, November 14th at 3:00 pm (with a pre-concert lecture, "Music Behind the Music," beginning at 2:00 pm)
Saturday, January 22nd and Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
With State Street BalletArtistic Director: Rodney GustafsonStravinsky: Pulcinella SuiteSchubert: Symphony No. 5Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite
In their first-ever collaboration, Santa Barbara’s own State Street Ballet – hailed by the Independent as “not only a classical company, but a classy one” – will join forces with the Symphony to present an American masterpiece, Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring.. The program also features the Suite from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, a colorful, rhythmically playful work based on baroque-era melodies, and Schubert’s buoyant Fifth Symphony.
Date & Time: Saturday, January 22nd at 8:00 pm and Sunday, January 23rd at 3:00 pm (with a pre-concert lecture, "Music Behind the Music," beginning at 2:00 pm)
STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF RUSSIA
MARK GORENSTEIN, ConductorDMITRI ALEXEEV, Piano
Aram Khachaturian: Waltz fromMasquerade, Adagio from Spartacus, Lizginka from Gayane
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
Co-Sponsor: The CAMA Women's BoardCo-Sponsor: Judy & George Writer
“Although it is not the oldest Russian orchestra now active, the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia is certainly among the more venerable.”(New York Times) The orchestra’s all-Russian program features the electrifying Tenth Symphony of Shostakovich, which “many critics feel is the composer's masterpiece…written in a white heat immediately after the death of Stalin in 1953.” (Michael Walsh, Entertainment Weekly) Also on the program is Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring pianist Dmitri Alexeevwhose “sense of colour, of light and shade, and his extraordinary command over the dynamic range, {are} beguiling. He really does have the lot.” (Glasgow Herald)
JOSHUA BELL, ViolinIN RECITAL
SAM HAYWOOD, Piano
Program to be announced
Sponsor: Anne & Michael TowbesSponsor: Hollis Norris FundSponsor: Herbert & Elaine KendallSponsor: Michele & André SaltounCo-Sponsor: Linda Brown
“Joshua Bell is the greatest American violinist active today.” (Boston Herald)He has captured the public’s attention like no other classical violinist of his time. Bell has recorded more than 35 CDs since his first recording at age 18, receiving awards including a Grammy. He has collaborated with numerous artists and on film scores including the Oscar-winning soundtrack for The Red Violin. “Few prodigies make it into musical maturity, but Bell has evolved from a technical whiz to a true artist and intellectual whose music feeds both your brain and your heart.” (Newsweek)
www.joshuabell.com
PETER SERKINPiano In Recital
Johannes Brahms: Theme and Variations in D minor (arranged from the Andante of the String Sextet in B-flat Major)
Claude Debussy: Six Epigraphes Antiques
Charles Wuorinen: Scherzo
Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite in C minor for Lute-Cembalo
Arnold Schoenberg: Suite, Op. 25
Sponsor: Bitsy Becton Bacon/Becton Family Foundation
“Peter Serkin is one of the most interesting pianists... today.” (Seattle Times) His rich musical heritage extends back several generations: his grandfather was violinist and composer Adolf Busch and his father pianist Rudolf Serkin. An avid proponent of music of the 20th and 21st century, Serkin has conveyed the essence of five centuries of repertoire to audiences around the world: “...just as Mr. Serkin enjoys performing new music with a sense of its history, he thrives on playing old music with a sense of its radicalism.” (New York Times)
Saturday, February 19th and Sunday, February 20th, 2011
Arild Remmereit, Guest Conductor Natasha Kislenko, piano Grieg: Holberg Suite Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.1 Svendsen: Symphony No. 1
The New York Times calls Arild Remmereit “the hottest conductor you’ve never heard of.” This charismatic Norwegian maestro has dazzled critics throughout the U.S. and Europe and his performance with the Utah Symphony “sent the audience out of the doors exhilarated,” according to the Salt Lake Tribune. His program includes two works from his native Norway: Edvard Grieg’s buoyant Holberg Suite and Johan Svendsen’s cheerful, outgoing first symphony. Natasha Kislenko and Jon Lewis will perform as soloists in Shostakovich’s witty and sardonic Concerto for Piano and Trumpet.
Date & Time: Saturday, February 19th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, February 20th at 3:00 pm (with a pre-concert lecture, "Music Behind the Music," beginning at 2:00 pm)
Location: The Granada, 1216 State St., Santa Barbara
Saturday, March 19th and Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Gilles Apap, violinRobin Frost: Concertino for Violin – WORLD PREMIEREKhachaturian: Violin ConcertoMussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Former Santa Barbara Symphony concertmaster and French violinist Gilles Apap, a favorite of Santa Barbara audiences, returns for his first-ever performance of Khachaturian’s virtuosic Violin Concerto. With his unmatched facility in both classical and traditional folk music, Apap brings a unique sensibility to this 20th-century masterpiece, which draws on the rhythmic and melodic vitality of Armenian folk song. The program also features the world premiere of Santa Barbara composer Robin Frost’s Concertino for Violin, a piece written for Apap, and the mighty sounds of Mussorgsky’s musical stroll through a memorable museum exhibit. Prior Symphony Apap performances have been sold out.
Date & Time: Saturday, March 19th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, March 20th at 3:00 pm (with a pre-concert lecture, "Music Behind the Music," beginning at 2:00 pm)
ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC
NIKOLAI ALEXEEV, ConductorALISA WEILERSTEIN, Cello
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36
Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 107
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Sponsor: Léni Fé BlandSponsor: Judith L. HopkinsonSponsor: Sara Miller McCuneCo-Sponsor: Louise & Michael CacceseCo-Sponsor: Chris LancashireCo-Sponsor: Barb & Sam Toumayan
The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra is Russia’s oldest symphonic ensemble, founded in 1882. Joining the orchestra is American cellist Alisa Weilerstein (b. 1982), who has attracted attention for playing that combines a natural virtuosic command with impassioned musicianship. “Shostakovich's first cello concerto has all the demands to challenge any concert cellist, and Weilerstein was able to match them with explosive power...”(BBC Music Magazine)
TETZLAFF QUARTETCHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, ViolinELISABETH KUFFERATH, ViolinHANNA WEINMEISTER, ViolaTANJA TETZLAFF, Cello
Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, No. 3
Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet in A minor, Op. 13
Arnold Schoenberg: Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (1905)
Principal Sponsor: Dolores M. Hsu
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff, named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America in 2005, returns with his quartet, which is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of the world’s most fascinating chamber ensembles. TheTetzlaff Quartet’s “supremely lyrical, exactingly detailed playing combined with impeccable balance and unanimity, {resulted} in an overwhelming performance...” (New York Times)
CHINA PHILHARMONICLONG YU, ConductorRENAUD CAPUÇON, Violin
Hector Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Qigang Chen: Enchantements oubliés
Maurice Ravel: Boléro
Sponsor: The Andrew H. Burnett FoundationSponsor: The CAMA Women's BoardCo-Sponsor: Dorothy & Freeman Gosden, Jr. Co-Sponsor: Joanne Holderman
Established in 2000, the China Philharmonic celebrates the increasingly active role of China in the performance of Western classical music. Named “Instrumentalist of the Year” for 2005 by the French Victoires de la Musique, violinist Renaud Capuçon“is stunning – as much of an actor as a musician, so carefully does he characterize each note... he moves from youthful dash to naïve sentimentality and pouting sensuousness with ease...” (BBC Music Magazine)
Saturday, April 16th and Sunday, April 17th, 2011
Letizia Belmondo, harpRenié: Concerto for Harp and OrchestraMozart: Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”
Mozart’s final Symphony, Jupiter, is an exceptionally rich, highly dramatic work that is both immensely pleasing and deeply profound. It will be paired with the little-known but utterly delightful Harp Concerto by pioneering French composer Henriette Renié. The preeminent harpist of her era, Renié wrote and premiered this delicate, romantic work in 1901. One of the greatest harpists of our time, prize-winning Italian virtuoso Letizia Belmondo, will perform it here in a rare American appearance.
Date & Time: Saturday, April 16th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, April 17th at 3:00 pm (with a pre-concert lecture, "Music Behind the Music," beginning at 2:00 pm)
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, ConductorLEONIDAS KAVAKOS, Violin
Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Osvaldo Golijov: Violin Concerto (world premiere)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Principal Sponsor: The Samuel B. & Margaret C. Mosher FoundationSponsor: Santa Barbara Bank & TrustCo-Sponsor: Bitsy Becton Bacon/Becton Family Foundation Co-Sponsor: Robert & Christine Emmons
Gustavo Dudamel’s May 7, 2011 concert with the LA Phil marks his first appearance in Santa Barbara.Dudamel “wins over orchestras and audiences through the expression of an irresistible life force... {He} is a deep and serious interpreter...” (Los Angeles Times) Acclaimed worldwide as one of the most exciting and compelling conductors of our time, Dudamel began his tenure as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Fall 2009. “...Dudamel radiates joy... He has stamina and grip as well as charisma... his ability to draw detail, energy, colour and refinement from an orchestra is riveting, a product of the fact that...he has been conducting since the age of 15...” (The Daily Telegraph, London)
Saturday, May 14th and Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Alon Goldstein, pianoDvořák: Carnival OvertureAvner Dorman: Piano Concerto No. 2 “Lost Souls”Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Israeli pianist Alon Goldstein, who joined the symphony for a sensitive performance of Rachmaninoff’s Second Concerto in 2005, returns with the West Coast premiere of a work written specifically for him: Avner Dorman’s Lost Souls. Dorman, whose music has been called “accessible and inviting” by The New York Times, describes this stylistically varied 2009 composition as “a séance calling forth composers and pianists of the past”. The season concludes with Brahms’ intensely beautiful Fourth Symphony, a profoundly satisfying summation of the composer’s art.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 14th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, May 15th at 3:00 pm (with a pre-concert lecture, "Music Behind the Music," beginning at 2:00 pm)