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Carnegie Hall Presents

Japan’s Great Orchestras I

Series Events

Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 | 8 PM
Saito Kinen Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Kifu Mitsuhashi, Shakuhachi
  • Saito Kinen Orchestra
    Seiji Ozawa, Music Director and Conductor
  • Tatsuya Shimono, Conductor
  • Yukio Tanaka, Biwa

Program

  • TORU TAKEMITSU November Steps for Biwa, Shakuhachi, and Orchestra
  • BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes, including one intermission
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In 1991, the Saito Kinen Orchestra made its US debut—opening the Carnegie Hall season, no less. The New York Times raved: “It quickly showed itself to be a superbly polished group that played a program of Western core classics with genuine passion.” Experience the orchestra’s world-class mastery of classical-music repertoire again with Berlioz’s whirlwind of phantasmagoric Romantic-era passion.

Please note that Mr. Shimono has kindly agreed to conduct the Takemitsu work.
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op.14 (IV. Marche au supplice. Allegretto non troppo)
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa
Deutsche Grammophon Galleria
Monday, Mar 21, 2011 | 8 PM
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Soprano
  • NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
    André Previn, Principal Guest Conductor

Program

  • TORU TAKEMITSU Green
  • R. STRAUSS Four Last Songs
  • PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
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In 1944, as Soviet Russia defended itself from Nazi invasion, Prokofiev wrote his Fifth Symphony as “a hymn to free and happy Man … his pure and noble spirit.” A few years later, an elderly Strauss composed his Four Last Songs, performed here by the legendary Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Hear both of these pieces, along with music by Takemitsu that pays homage to Debussy.
Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 (I. Andante)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
EMI Classics
Friday, Apr 1, 2011 | 8 PM
Cancelled: Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-Juku
Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Program

Seiji Ozawa and Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku (Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Orchestra) must regrettably cancel their performances this spring as Maestro Ozawa continues to recuperate from recent surgery. This concert will not be rescheduled this season.

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