New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Morristown

Morristown Series
Community Theatre at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts
4 concerts, Saturday / Sunday at 3 pm

VLADIMIR FELTSMAN
piano

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION

Saturday, September 27 at 3 pm

ARILD REMMEREIT conductor
VLADIMIR FELTSMAN piano

TORKE Bright Blue Music
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
MUSSORGSKY / RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition

Kick off the new season with audience-favorite Vladimir Feltsman performing Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto, a work that exhibits all the optimism and wry creativity of a young composer hitting his musical stride. Then, walk the stately promenade of a grand art gallery as Mussorgsky cleverly depicts the art works of a dear friend. Paintings called “The Old Castle,” “Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells” and “The Catacombs” come to life as this musical journey builds to a majestic conclusion, with heroic Russian warriors pounding on the Great Gate of Kiev.

JACQUES LACOMBE conductor

CARMINA BURANA

Sunday, November 9 at 3 pm

JACQUES LACOMBE conductor
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY CHORALE

CHAMBER CHOIR OF THE MOSCOW CONSERVATORY
SARAH COBURN soprano
VALE RIDEOUT tenor
STEPHEN POWELL bass

DEBUSSY / RAVEL Danse
JANÁČEK Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen
ORFF Carmina Burana

Debussy’s Danse is a whirling tarantella influenced by the composer’s travels to Italy. Leoš Janáček’s suite from his opera The Cunning Little Vixen is a work of light-hearted spirit full of lively folk tunes. Then, with a stage spilling over with more than 250 musicians, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana explodes with its entrancing rhythms and stirring poetry. Don’t miss this modern-day Canterbury Tales as it brings to life the primitive tales of love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and heightened moods provoked by springtime.

KRISTJAN JÄRVI
conductor

IDYLLIC IMPRESSIONISM
Paris: Fantasy & Discovery, week 3

Saturday, January 24 at 3 pm

KRISTJAN JÄRVI conductor
MIKHAIL SIMONYAN violin

DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
MILHAUD Le boeuf sur le toit
SAINT-SAËNS Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
RAVEL Daphnis and Chloe Suites Nos. 1 & 2

In the tranquil Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Debussy portrays the hazy desires and dreams of a faun in the heat of the afternoon. Milhaud’s music is a raucous romp of popular Brazilian tunes that was originally written to be the score for a silent Charlie Chaplin film. Revel in the height of impressionism as the carnal tale of Daphnis and Chloe unfolds. With pirates, nymphs and bird songs all painted in a veil of impressionistic colors, this love story builds to an erotic tumult you won’t soon forget.

LOS ANGELES GUITAR QUARTET

TCHAIKOVSKY’S PATHÉTIQUE

Sunday, April 5 at 3 pm

ANDREW GRAMS conductor
LOS ANGELES GUITAR QUARTET

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Serenade to Music

ASSAD Interchange for Guitar Quartet and Orchestra

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”

Enjoy the New York City-area premiere of Brazilian composer Sergio Assad’s new piece written specifically for the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony is an unforgettable experience of human triumph and loss. The composer himself said, “I have put my whole soul into this work.” Hear Tchaikovsky’s final orchestral statement for yourself and discover what some consider to be his most autobiographical work.