by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 6:45 PM
Showtime: 7:30 PM
Conductor:
Peter Oundjian
The 2021 Festival Finale showcases all the sections of the orchestra, beginning with a canzon for brass and ending with Beethoven’s unforgettable Fifth Symphony. With its iconic four-note opening and its ascent from darkness to light, the Fifth is perhaps, as novelist E.M. Forster described it, “the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.” Before intermission: Dvořák’s Serenade for Wind Instruments takes inspiration from similar works by Mozart, but is reimagined and infused with Dvořák’s Czech character, including hints of folk music and polka.
Program:
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon septimi toni à 8 (No. 2) arr. R.P. Block
Anton Dvořák: Serenade for Wind Instruments in D Minor, Op. 44
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 6:45 PM
Conductor:
Peter Oundjian
Guest Artists:
Dr. Eddie Glaude, narrator
Joel Thompson, composer
In a world premiere commissioned by the Festival, composer Joel Thompson shines a light on American writer and activist James Baldwin, weaving selections of Baldwin’s own words into a musical profile on one of the most powerful Black voices of his generation. Later: Beethoven broke so many musical boundaries with his inventive Third Symphony — best known as Eroica (“Heroic”) — that many consider this symphony to have ushered in a new chapter in music altogether.
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Program:
Joel Thompson, World premiere commission (2021)
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, “Eroica”
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 6:45 PM
Showtime: 7:30 PM
Guest Artists
Brooklyn Rider
The Festival welcomes Brooklyn Rider, “four classical musicians performing with the energy of young rock stars jamming on their guitars” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) to the Robert Mann Chamber Music Series. In this fresh and inventive program, Brooklyn Rider contrasts Franz Schubert’s lauded “Death and the Maiden” quartet with Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw’s Schisma, commissioned by Brooklyn Rider, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae, which the composer describes as “an orbiting spaceship that never touches the ground.” The quartet’s passion for performing and commissioning colorful and innovative music led NPR to describe Brooklyn Rider this way: “Take two violins, a viola, a cello. Add the world.”
Due to travel restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the previously-scheduled Danish String Quartet will regrettably not be able to visit the Festival this summer. Tickets for Danish String Quartet are automatically valid for Brooklyn Rider’s concert on the same date and time.
Program
Caroline Shaw, Schisma (2019)
Osvaldo Golijov, Tenebrae (2002)
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Franz Schubert, String Quartet No. 14, “Death and the Maiden”
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 5:45 PM
Conductor:
Peter Oundjian
Guest Artists:
Steven Banks, saxophone
Chris Christoffersen, narrator
This program begins and ends with Aaron Copland: first, his brassy and familiar Fanfare for the Common Man; finally, his reverent portrait of Abraham Lincoln, featuring text from Lincoln’s speeches narrated by Chris Christoffersen. Brilliant saxophonist Steven Banks brings his “pristine clarity” and “emotional heat” (Herald Times) to Alexander Glazunov’s Saxophone Concerto. Florence Price is celebrated as the first Black woman to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra; here we perform the expansively emotional second movement from her String Quartet No. 2, arranged for string orchestra by Peter Oundjian.
Program:
Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
Florence Price, String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor (1935) (Movement 2)
Alexander Glazunov, Saxophone Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 109
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Jacques Ibert, Concertino da Camera
Aaron Copland, Lincoln Portrait
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 5:45 PM
Conductor:
Peter Oundjian
Guest Artist:
Augustin Hadelich, violin Artist-in-Residence
Delight in Beethoven’s only violin concerto, a vivacious and melodic treasure that Music Director Peter Oundjian calls “the pinnacle of all violin concertos.” This masterpiece requires as skilled a musician as the Grammy-winning Augustin Hadelich, an artist of “scarcely believable commitment” (New York Times); this concert is Hadelich’s second program as the Festival’s 2021 artist-in-residence. Bartók once said of his fellow composer that “all Kodály’s composing activity is rooted only in Hungarian soil” — hear a fine example of Kodály’s flair for folk in his Dances of Galánta. Weber’s overture to his opera Oberon adds drama to this program from its very first horn solo.
This performance will be delivered both in person and virtually. Each in-person ticket purchase also grants access to the virtual performance. If you would prefer to attend the virtual concert only, see the full list of virtual concerts or purchase a Virtual Concerts package here.
Program:
Carl Maria von Weber, Oberon Overture
Zoltán Kodály, Dances of Galánta
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
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