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BRONFMAN PLAYS PROKOFIEV
COMING TO AMERICA, WEEK 1 |
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NEEME JÄRVI conductor
YEFIM BRONFMAN piano |
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| Join your New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for the first week of the 2008 Winter Festival, “Coming to America.” Audience-favorite Yefim Bronfman displays his unparalleled technique and incredible artistry in Prokofiev’s fiery Third Piano Concerto. Maestro Järvi conducts Stravinsky’s playful Circus Polka and paints a portrait of the expansive Nordic landscape in Sibelius’s The Oceanides. Hindemith’s popular Symphonic metamorphosis is a work of great energy and color, ending with a grandiose march, which always brings audiences to their feet! |
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| NEEME JÄRVI conductor |
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FROM THE NEW WORLD
COMING TO AMERICA, WEEK 2 |
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| NEEME JÄRVI conductor |
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| America comes to life in the second week of the 2008 Winter Festival, “Coming to America.” The Polonaise from Tchaikovsky’s grand lyric opera will surely leave you dancing in the aisles. Martinu’s Second Symphony will surprise you with a hint of impromptu jazz. Dvorák’s irresistible Ninth Symphony will inspire you with a burst of the American spirit as it gives voice to American folk music and aches with indigenous yearnings. |
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| GILBERT VARGA conductor |
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TCHAIKOVSKY PIANO CONCERTO
COMING TO AMERICA, WEEK 3 |
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GILBERT VARGA conductor
HAOCHEN ZHANG piano |
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| The final week of the 2008 Winter Festival, “Coming to America,” features works of immense scale and intense emotion. Some of the most famous notes written for the piano announce the heart-on-sleeve passion and rapturous joy of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. Bartók’s exuberant and ever-popular showcase for orchestra will captivate you with its wondrous, vibrant and spontaneous celebration of life, culminating in an explosive outburst of defiant vitality. |
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| Sponsored by Herbert and Evelyn Axelrod |
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| * Join us for a pre-concert Classical Conversation on January 26. |
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| MANUEL BARRUECO guitar |
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| MOZART AND STRAUSS |
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LAWRENCE FOSTER conductor
MANUEL BARRUECO guitar |
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| MOZART Symphony No. 31, “Paris” |
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| SIERRA Danzas Concertantes for guitar and orchestra (U.S. Premiere) |
| STRAUSS Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite |
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Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear world-renowned guitarist Manuel Barrueco perform the United States premiere of Roberto Sierra’s romantic Danzas Concertantes. Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony, a boisterous work that Mozart composed during his joyous time in France, sets the stage for Strauss’s humorous and satirical Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
January 31 concert sponsored by Burgdorff ERA Realtors |
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