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Fort Worth Symphony 2013-14 makes Dallas look REALLY dull
The Dallas Morning News
March 8, 2013
By Scott Cantrell/Classical Music Critic ([email protected])
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra will be seriously in the running for
an adventurous-programming prize next season. While the Dallas
Symphony has scheduled the least imaginative season in memory, the
FWSO promises a work from the 20th or 21st century on every one of its
10 Symphonic Series programs.
We're not talking about Ravel and Respighi, either. The series makes a
point of exploring works by lesser-known composers and countries
rarely represented on classical concerts.
The composers are Henry Lissant-Collints (South Africa), Donnacha
Dennehy (Ireland), An-Lun Huang (China), Pancho Vladigerov (Bulgaria),
György Ligeti (Hungary), Nikos Skalkottas (Greece), Arvo Pärt
(Estonia), Carl Nielsen (Denmark), Peter Sculthorpe (Australia) and
Alexander Arutiunian (Armenia).
Patrons worried by unfamiliar composers' names on the program will
find plenty of standard repertory: symphonies and concertos by Haydn,
Beethoven, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorák, Sibelius,
Prokofiev and Gershwin; a Rossini overture and tone poems by Debussy
and Strauss. The TCU Chorale, Baylor Chorale and Southwestern Singers
will join for Mendelssohn's Elijah, with soloists Jonathan Beyer,
Jonathan Boyd, Virginia Dupuy and Ava Pine.
This year's pre-season festival of three concerts, Aug. 23-25, will
comprise the last three symphonies of Tchaikovsky and the first three
piano concertos of Rachmaninoff, the latter featuring the top prize
winners in this year's Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya will conduct these three concerts
and six of the Symphonic Series programs. Guest conductors will be
Mei-An Chen, Rossen Milanov, Joshua Weilerstein and Alejandro
Posada. Soloists will include local-favorite pianists Joyce Yang and
Adam Golka; others will be pianist Steven Osborne, violinists Anne
Akiko Meyers and Benjamin Beilman, trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth and
the Time for Three ensemble.
Another local favorite, and past Cliburn Competition winner, pianist
Jon Nakamatsu, will be among guests for the seven-concert Pops Series,
along with vocalists Doug LaBrecque, Ashley Brown and Chris Mann, the
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Chorus and the ensemble Five
by Design.
Subscriber specials include a gala featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Handel's
Messiah, a program of South American music in Harth-Bedoya's Caminos
del Inka series and a New Year's Eve Frank Sinatra program.
Subscriptions are available now; single tickets go on sale in August.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
The Dallas Morning News
March 8, 2013
By Scott Cantrell/Classical Music Critic ([email protected])
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra will be seriously in the running for
an adventurous-programming prize next season. While the Dallas
Symphony has scheduled the least imaginative season in memory, the
FWSO promises a work from the 20th or 21st century on every one of its
10 Symphonic Series programs.
We're not talking about Ravel and Respighi, either. The series makes a
point of exploring works by lesser-known composers and countries
rarely represented on classical concerts.
The composers are Henry Lissant-Collints (South Africa), Donnacha
Dennehy (Ireland), An-Lun Huang (China), Pancho Vladigerov (Bulgaria),
György Ligeti (Hungary), Nikos Skalkottas (Greece), Arvo Pärt
(Estonia), Carl Nielsen (Denmark), Peter Sculthorpe (Australia) and
Alexander Arutiunian (Armenia).
Patrons worried by unfamiliar composers' names on the program will
find plenty of standard repertory: symphonies and concertos by Haydn,
Beethoven, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorák, Sibelius,
Prokofiev and Gershwin; a Rossini overture and tone poems by Debussy
and Strauss. The TCU Chorale, Baylor Chorale and Southwestern Singers
will join for Mendelssohn's Elijah, with soloists Jonathan Beyer,
Jonathan Boyd, Virginia Dupuy and Ava Pine.
This year's pre-season festival of three concerts, Aug. 23-25, will
comprise the last three symphonies of Tchaikovsky and the first three
piano concertos of Rachmaninoff, the latter featuring the top prize
winners in this year's Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya will conduct these three concerts
and six of the Symphonic Series programs. Guest conductors will be
Mei-An Chen, Rossen Milanov, Joshua Weilerstein and Alejandro
Posada. Soloists will include local-favorite pianists Joyce Yang and
Adam Golka; others will be pianist Steven Osborne, violinists Anne
Akiko Meyers and Benjamin Beilman, trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth and
the Time for Three ensemble.
Another local favorite, and past Cliburn Competition winner, pianist
Jon Nakamatsu, will be among guests for the seven-concert Pops Series,
along with vocalists Doug LaBrecque, Ashley Brown and Chris Mann, the
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Chorus and the ensemble Five
by Design.
Subscriber specials include a gala featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Handel's
Messiah, a program of South American music in Harth-Bedoya's Caminos
del Inka series and a New Year's Eve Frank Sinatra program.
Subscriptions are available now; single tickets go on sale in August.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress