La Jolla Symphony & Chorus

 

Saturday Concerts at 8 PM
Sunday Concerts at 3 PM
Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD


Noriko Kawai, La Jolla Symphony & Chorus  

Oct. 30-31, 2010

Steven Schick conducting

Leonard Bernstein
Alexandre Scriabin
Gustav Mahler

Overture to Candide
Prometheus
Symphony No. 1


Guest Artists: Noriko Kawai, piano

Ross Karre, video artist (color organ)

 

A program resplendent with many colors! Scriabin scored Prometheus for piano, chorus, orchestra, and what he called a “color organ.” Inspired by the interactive light-show artists of the late ‘60s rock scene, acclaimed young video artist Ross Karre reshapes Scriabin’s original color organ part into a concerto grosso of light, color, image and shadow. Our multi-media presentation will be framed by two works full of color on their own, Bernstein’s sassy Candide Overture and Mahler’s mighty First Symphony.

 


Corbeit, La Jolla Symphony & Chorus  
December 4-5, 2010 Steven Schick conducting 
Ludwig van Beethoven Missa Solemnis

 

Guest Artists: Kathleen Halm, Ava Baker Liss,
Tom Oberjat, Tom Corbeil
(pictured)


One of the great spectacles of the early 19th century, the Missa Solemnis was written for the installation of Beethoven’s pupil and friend Archduke Rudolf as an archbishop. From out of his deafness, Beethoven created a masterpiece of solemn strength and heartfelt expressiveness, requiring four powerful soloists, a huge chorus, and a full orchestra.


Real Quite, La Jolla Symphony & Chorus  
February 5-6, 2011 Steven Schick conducting 

Claude Debussy
Phil Kline
Iannis Xenakis

Claude Debussy

Jeux

A Dream and Its Opposite

Metastasis

Nocturnes: Nuages, Fêtes

 

Guest Artists: Real Quite ensemble


A study in very sharp contrasts–works by Debussy frame much more recent music. The concert opens with Debussy’s final orchestral work, his wry ballet Jeux, about love and tennis, and closes with his nocturnes Nuages and Fêtes, each a study in orchestral color. In between we offer the premiere of Phil Kline’s A Dream and Its Opposite, featuring Real Quiet (Felix Fan, Andrew Russo, David Cossin), and Iannis Xenakis’ Metastasis, a work shaped by Einstein’s concept of time and Le Corbusier’s theories of architecture.
Please note the Sunday matinee is at 1:00 p.m. for this performance only.


Hannah, La Jolla Symphony & Chorus  
March 12-13, 2011 Steven Schick conducting
Sergei Prokofiev
Mark Applebaum
Béla Bartók
Concerto No. 2 for Violin
Concerto for Florist & Orchestra
Concerto for Orchestra


Special Guests: Hannah Cho, violin (2009 YAC winner),
James DelPrince, floral design


A concert that stretches the conception of the concerto. Young Artist Competition (YAC) winner Hannah Cho is soloist in Prokofiev’s poised Second Violin Concerto, and we conclude with the greatest orchestral concerto of them all, Bartok’s noble Concerto for Orchestra.  In between, a complete surprise: we present the world premiere of Mark Applebaum’s Concerto for Florist and Orchestra, a Thomas Nee Commission, with ornamental horticulturalist James DelPrince as soloist!


Jon, La Jolla Symphony & Chorus  
April 29- May 1, 2011 David Chase conducting

Johann Sebastian Bach

The Passion According to St. Matthew


Guest Artists: Jon Lee Keenan ("Evangelist," pictured), Angela Cadelago, Janelle DeStefano, Gregorio Gonzalez, Abdiel Gonzalez

We observe the Easter season with one of the great monuments of music, Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, which calls for two orchestras, vocal and instrumental soloists, and a radiant role for the Evangelist.  Almost operatic in its spectacle and impact, this music was crucially important to Bach, who took special care to preserve his manuscript–-he wanted this music to survive.  And it has, magnificently. Three performances.

 


Cindy Choi, La Jolla Symphony & Chorus  
June 4-5, 2011 David Chase / Nicholas Deyoe conducting

Johannes Brahms

Dmitri Shostakovich
Franz Josef Haydn

Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Symphony No.1

Harmonie-Messe


Guest Artists: Richard Geiler, David Marshman,
Cindy Choi (2010 YAC winner)


A program that explores the music of Haydn and the meaning of classicism. David Chase leads Brahms’ salute to Haydn and an earlier era, and the orchestra’s assistant conductor Nicholas Deyoe conducts Shostakovich’s neoclassical First Symphony.  The concert concludes with Haydn’s final mass, the resounding Harmonie-Messe for soloists, chorus, and orchestra.



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