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Festival Of Music
Five Exciting
Concerts
Highlight Our New Season!
Planning for our 2008-09 concert season is nearly
complete. And what a season it will be!
Maestro
Rapchak has created five exciting "Festival Concerts,"
each with its own unique blend of Old Favorites and New Delights.
Every concert will be an experience you won't want to miss ...
Exciting, Innovative, and Engaging.
Come
and hear some of your favorite music for the very first time!
September 28, 2008 - THE GLORY OF VIENNA. This concert evokes the Old-World
Elegance of the classical era in works of Mozart and
Haydn, plus the great Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor," by
Beethoven, performed by George Lepauw.
November 2, 2008 - FAIRY-TALES and LEGENDS. A musical journey into the
Realm of Fantasy, a collection of works which explore the delicate beauties and heart-pounding thrills of
our childhood dreams. Stravinsky’s dynamic Firebird Suite
will highlight the program. Other works include the gorgeous
Irish Rhapsody and The Fisherman of Loch Neagh
by the 20th-century Romantic composer Charles Villiers
Stanford. The performance will be enhanced by visual
projections of artwork created especially for this program.
February 22, 2009 - INVITATION TO THE DANCE. An Exciting Collaboration
with The Leopold Group, the North
Shore’s newest dance company will bring to life music
written specifically
for the dance, including works by Mozart, Chopin, and
Bach. The program will conclude with Beethoven’s
beloved Symphony No. 7.
April 5, 2009 -
JOSEPH JOHNSON HONORARY CONCERT. A concert
honoring Northbrook’s own “super cellist,” Joseph Johnson
(principal of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra). Each work
in this concert of cross-cultural currents features a composer
adopting the voice of another nation. Mr. Johnson will
perform Eduard Lalo's scintillating Concerto for Cello,
which the French composer wrote in an
exotic Spanish style. The program also features the Austrian Franz Schubert's
festive Hungarian March and the German Felix Mendelssohn's
Scottish Symphony. What a multi-cultural bash!
May 3, 2009 - FESTIVA! Brilliant Showpieces for Orchestra
celebrating cultural glories of the past, featuring
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol.
Juilliard-trained pianist Thomas Pandolfi, fresh from recording
the rare Paderewski Piano Concerto in Eastern Europe, will make
his NSO debut performing Richard
Strauss' Pan-Athenean Procession, the great Romantic
composer's evocation of the brilliant festivities of Ancient
Greece. This will be the first Chicago-area performance
of this magnificent work!
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A big thank-you to all of you who supported us
this past season.
We could not
have made it without you, our loyal audience!
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