2008–2009 Season
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The ConcertsChoose evening or matinee performances to accommodate your schedule and preference. Student tickets are available. An American PortraitSaturday, October 4 — 8:00 p.m. Soreng Theater Our celebration of American music begins with Samuel Barber’s dreamlike Knoxville: Summer of 1915, brought to life by exceptional young soprano Jennifer Forni. The lyric mood continues in John Corigliano’s Voyage. The influence of jazz and other popular American idioms can be heard in Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes and Milhaud’s visually exciting Percussion Concerto, the latter featuring OMP’s W. Sean Wagoner. John Frohnmayer, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, gives powerful voice to Lincoln’s words in Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait. Glen Cortese, conductor Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Program notes are not yet available. Concert co-sponsor Merrill Lynch Love and MarriageSaturday, November 1 — 8:00 p.m. Soreng Theater A thread of romance runs through this program. Rodrigo’s Four Madrigals of Love sparkle in the hands of Eugene soprano Laura Decher Wayte. Internationally celebrated pianist Anne-Marie McDermott joins us in Mozart’s 20th piano concerto, where for the first time there is a “marriage of equals” between soloist and orchestra. Beethoven’s cheerful eighth symphony was written the same year as the composer penned his “immortal beloved” letter to an unknown love. Glen Cortese, conductor Rodrigo: Four Madrigals of Love Program notes are not yet available. Concert sponsors
Watkinson Laird Rubenstein Baldwin & Burgess, P.C., Attorneys at
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Linda C. Bullock, D.M.D., General Dentistry Soloist sponsors Wells Fargo Bank and the Hult Endowment Subfund of the Arts Foundation of Western Oregon Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Anne-Marie McDermott RecitalPlease note the special recital at 7:30 Thursday, October 7 at Beall Concert Hall on the University of Oregon campus. Internationally renowned pianist Anne-Marie McDermott has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, St. Louis, and many other symphony orchestras. She is a long-time member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has collaborated with such arists as the Guarneri String Quartet and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Her numerous recital engagements have included New York’s 92nd Street Y and Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center and many national and international music festivals. The highlight of her Beall Hall program is Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Program TBA Baroque for the Holidays VISunday, December 7 and Monday,
December 8 — 7:30 p.m. First Christian Church, 1166 Oak Street Welcome the holiday season with one of Eugene’s favorite musical traditions. This year’s concert by candlelight celebrates the Baroque suite with music fit for a king. In the case of the Water Music Suite, that’s Britain’s King George I, who commissioned the music for a barge trip down the Thames. Bach’s delightful first orchestral suite is thought to have been written for the court at Anhalt-Cöthen. 20th-Century composer Ottorino Respighi orchestrated lute music of the late 16th and early 17th centuries to create his charming Ancient Airs and Dances. Glen Cortese, conductor
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3 Program notes are not yet available. Concert sponsors The Register Guard and Tom Ing & Nonnie Cole English TrifleSaturday, January 10 — 8:00 p.m. Soreng Theater Like the famous dessert, our English Trifle concert is a delicious, multi-layered concoction. Gustav Holst’s suite for strings is imbued with the spirit of folk songs. OMP Concertmaster Alice Blankenship carries our spirits aloft in the beautiful lyricism of Vaughan Williams’s classic. Mozart’s first symphony was written during a visit to London as a celebrated wunderkind, and the string section shines again in Elgar’s lush Serenade. Haydn’s final symphony, the “London,” concludes the program. Glen Cortese, conductor
Holst: Brook Green Suite Program notes are not yet available. Concert sponsors Umpqua Bank and Linda C. Bullock, D.M.D., General Dentistry All AmadeusSaturday, February 28 — 8:00 p.m. Soreng Theater Our annual tribute to Mozart is an audience favorite. We begin with his light-hearted Divertimento No. 11, thought to have been dedicated to his sister, Nannerl. Bach Festival favorite Allan Vogel, one of the world’s great oboists, joins OMP in one of the best loved compositions for that instrument. The program concludes with one of Mozart’s best-known Sturm und Drang symphonies, the first movement of which was used to set the tone in the film Amadeus. Glen Cortese, conductor
Divertimento No. 11 in D Major K. 251 Program notes are not yet available. Concert sponsors Peter and Margaret Gontrum Artist sponsor Smith Barney First Things FirstSaturday, May 2 — 8:00 p.m. Soreng Theater Our season finale features works that are “first of their kind” for their respective composers. The overture to Mozart’s first singspiel provides a playful and unpretentious foretaste of the operatic masterpieces to come. Villa Lobos’s first sinfonietta, dedicated to Mozart’s memory, is written on a Mozartean scale. Mendelssohn’s first concerto for piano and full orchestra features award-winning pianist Tien Hsieh. The final work on the program, Schubert’s first symphony, already shows the lyricism for which he would become famous. Glen Cortese, conductor
Mozart: Overture to “Bastien and Bastienne” Program notes are not yet available. Tien Hsieh RecitalPlease note the special recital at 7:30 Thursday,
April 30
at the Wildish Community Theater in Springfield. As one reviewer recently said, “Serious, composed, tiny and full of music, Tien Hsieh lets her artistry on the piano express a warmth and freshness of ideas that none but a poet could explain.” Another wrote that she “delivered electrifying performances of music of monumental difficulty.” Winner of numerous prizes and awards, Tien Hsieh has appeared in scores of recitals in this country and around the world. She will present a thrilling all-Liszt program in Springfield’s intimate Wildish Community Theater. Program TBA |
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The Season
The Musicians
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John Frohnmayer An American Portrait October 4 and 5 |
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Anne-Marie McDermott Love and Marriage November 1 and 2 |
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Candlelight Concert Baroque for the Holidays December 7 and 8 |
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Alice Blankenship English Trifle January 10 and 11 |
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Allan Vogel All Amadeus February 28 and March 1 |
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Tien Hsieh First Things First May 2 and 3 |
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