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Carnegie Hall Presents

Great American Orchestras II

Series Events

Saturday, Oct 30, 2010 | 8 PM
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus
    Norman Mackenzie, Director
  • Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
    Robert Spano, Music Director and Conductor
  • Burak Bilgili, Bass
  • John Mac Master, Tenor
  • Monica Groop, Mezzo-Soprano
  • Twyla Robinson, Soprano

Program

  • PÄRT Fratres
  • BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
  • JANÁCEK Glagolitic Mass

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 35 minutes, including one intermission
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Since its debut in 1970, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus has become the best-known choral group in the US, and the orchestra under Spano has become a welcome guest to Carnegie Hall. Janácek’s mass, set in an extinct Slavic language, showcases both groups as the finale of this concert, which also includes Arvo Pärt’s mesmerizing Fratres and music from Bartók’s scandalous pantomime-ballet.
Janáček Glagolitic Mass (I. Uvod)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra / Robert Shaw, Conductor
Telarc
Friday, Feb 4, 2011 | 8 PM
The Cleveland Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • The Cleveland Orchestra
    Franz Welser-Möst, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • DEBUSSY Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
  • TOSHIO HOSOKAWA Woven Dreams (NY Premiere)
  • R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

  • Encore:
  • R. STRAUSS Träumerei am Kamin from Intermezzo

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 35 minutes, including one intermission
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Travel through three rich, colorful pieces of music that create vivid dreamscapes. A famous flute showcase, Debussy’s languorous work reflects the erotic summertime fantasies of the mythical faun. In Strauss’s tone poem, hear his hero celebrate triumphs, battle enemies, and woo a gentle lover. And Hosokawa, raised in Japan and trained in Germany, musically imagines his own birth.
R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 (Battles Scene)
The Cleveland Orchestra / Christoph von Dohnányi, Conductor
Decca
Thursday, Mar 17, 2011 | 8 PM
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Andris Nelsons, Conductor

Program

  • MAHLER Symphony No. 9
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“The most heavenly thing Mahler ever wrote” was Alban Berg’s verdict. “It is music coming from another world, it is coming from eternity,” said Herbert von Karajan, a work that lifts us toward “an atmosphere of utmost transfiguration,” as Bruno Walter put it. Experience Mahler’s ethereal Ninth at Carnegie Hall with the Boston Symphony.

Conductor Andris Nelsons has graciously agreed to replace James Levine for this performance. Maestro Levine is forced to cancel his appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra due to ill effects from a recent procedure addressing his ongoing back issues, further complicated by a viral infection.

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Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major (III. Rondo-Burleske. Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig)
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra / James Levine, Conductor
Oehms
Friday, Apr 15, 2011 | 8 PM
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor (Otello)
  • Barbara Di Castri, Mezzo-Soprano (Emilia)
  • Carlo Guelfi, Baritone (Iago)
  • Chicago Children's Choir
  • Chicago Symphony Chorus
    Duain Wolfe, Director
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    Riccardo Muti, Music Director and Conductor
  • David Govertsen, Bass (Herald)
  • Eric Owens, Bass-Baritone (Lodovico)
  • Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor (Cassio)
  • Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano (Desdemona)
  • Michael Spyres, Tenor (Roderigo)
  • Paolo Battaglia, Bass (Montano)

Program

  • VERDI Otello (Concert Performance)
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In February 2010, Muti finally debuted at the Met with Verdi’s Attila in a performance The New York Times called a “revelation.” Now he brings Otello in a concert performance to Carnegie Hall with his Chicago Symphony.
Verdi Otello, Act II (“Credo in un Dio crudel”)
Renato Bruson / Florence Maggio Musicale Chorus and Orchestra / Riccardo Muti, Conductor
Living Stage