BERNSTEIN AND THE NEW WORLD SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 | 8:00 PM Eric Jacobsen, conductor | Orli Shaham, piano Bernstein - Overture to West Side Story Bernstein - Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety” Kojiro Umezaki - (Cycles) America Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World” Celebrate the 100th Birthday of one of America’s most beloved composers, Leonard Bernstein, as we begin the evening with the Overture to West Side Story. Orli Shaham has an impressive reputation as one of today’s most gifted pianists and will perform Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety based on a Pulitizer Prize-winiing poem by W. H. Auden. It portrays the spiritual journey of self-discovery of four people in a New York bar. We conclude with one of the most popular of all symphonies, Symphony No. 9, also known as “New World,” because Dvořák wrote it during his experiences in the United States in the 1890’s. BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 1 SATURDAY, APRIL 7 | 8:00 PM Eric Jacobsen, conductor | Awet Andemicael, soprano | Alexander Elliott, baritone William Ferguson, tenor | Kevork Mourad, visual artist Charles Griffin - World Premiere Brahms - Symphony No. 1 in C minor Rimsky-Korsakov - Excerpts from Capriccio Espagnol De Falla - Master Peter’s Puppet Show Join us for an evening of collaboration of art and music. Few great works of music have taken so long to get to a finished product as Brahms Symphony No. 1. He insisted that it took 21 years from sketches to finishing touches. It’s monumental! The first masterpiece by composer Manuel De Falla, Master Peter’s Puppet Show is a puppet-opera in one act, with puppets and real characters adapted from one of the episodes of Don Quixote. Visual Artist Kevork Mourad shares the stage with your Orlando Philharmonic with his technique of spontaneous real-time animated painting. 25th ANNIVERSARY SEASON GALA CONCERT FEATURING YO-YO MA AND COLIN JACOBSEN TUESDAY, MAY 8 | 8:00 PM Eric Jacobsen, conductor | Yo-Yo Ma, cello | Colin Jacobsen, violin Brahms - Double Concerto in A minor Join us for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with the world’s most celebrated cellist, Yo-Yo Ma and violist and composer Colin Jacobsen performing Brahms’ Double Concerto with the Philharmonic. ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 15
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