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Expect remarkable performances from current and future piano superstars Emanuel Ax and Yuja Wang, Beethoven’s Eroica and one very special concert that shines the spotlight on the Oregon Symphony’s own supremely talented musicians.
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A. Schnitzer Concert Hall: Saturday Classical B
Sat Oct 9, 2010 7:30PM:
Mendelssohn & Mozart
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More Info » What's likely to rank as the highlight on this program of greats: The symphony Mendelssohn created from the majestic church hymn A Mighty Fortress? The concerto many people say is Mozart's finest? You decide.
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Richard Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, "Reformation"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24
Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Sat Nov 13, 2010 7:30PM:
Mozart & Shakespeare
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More Info » It's a genuine marriage of the arts as an ensemble of talented actors join the orchestra on stage to perform Falstaff, composer Edward Elgar's astonishingly creative impressions of Shakespeare's most captivating comic character.
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
TBA, three actors
Maurice Ravel: Minuet antique
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38, "Prague"
• Edward Elgar: Falstaff (with actors)
William Walton: Charge and Battle from Suite from Henry V
Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:30PM:
Emanuel Ax Plays Brahms
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More Info » He's a seven-time Grammy winner and a genuine A-list pianist praised by The New York Times for his "luminous intensity." When Manny Ax makes a rare Portland appearance, it's certain to be among the season's major highlights. We guarantee it.
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
Marc-André Dalbavie: Color
• Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Sat Feb 5, 2011 7:30PM:
Yuja Wang Plays Rachmaninoff
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More Info » She's still only 22, and already she's being hailed worldwide as China's next superstar of the piano! What more thrilling way could there be for Yuja Wang to make her Oregon Symphony debut than with the fiendishly difficult Rach Third?
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
Johannes Brahms: Tragic Overture
Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 6, "Sinfonia semplice"
• Sergei Rachmaninoff : Piano Concerto No. 3
Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:30PM:
Baiba Skride / Khachaturian
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More Info » Expect a night of contrasts as Carlos Kalmar pairs two of the 20th century's most imaginative musical creations: the boldly expressive Violin Concerto of Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian alongside Claude Debussy's sublime, impressionist La Mer.
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Baiba Skride, violin
Jean Sibelius: The Oceanides
• Aram Khachaturian: Violin Concerto
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 39
Claude Debussy: La Mer
Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:30PM:
Eroica
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More Info » Toronto's Globe & Mail calls the terrific Canadian violinist James Ehnes "the Jascha Heifetz of our day." High praise, indeed. Imagine what he'll be able to do with the first violin concerto of Max Bruch.
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
James Ehnes, violin
William Walton: Partita
• Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Sat May 21, 2011 7:30PM:
Celebrating the Orchestra
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More Info » Oh, what a year it's been! We bring our spectacular 2010/11 concert season to a close in the best way we know how: With a program planned specifically to highlight the exceptional talent of the Oregon Symphony's own musicians.
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Orchestra soloists
Featured players include: Joël Belgique, viola; David Buck, flute; JáTtik Clark, tuba;
Yoshinori Nakao, clarinet; Nancy Ives, cello; Jun Iwasaki, violin
Paul Dukas: La péri Fanfare (all brass)
Paul Hindemith: Trauermusik (Belgique)
Camille Saint-Saëns: Tarantelle (Buck, Nakao)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Pezzo capriccioso
Jeff Tyzik: Jig from Four Dances for Tuba (Clark)
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane (Iwasaki)
Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
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