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SUMMARY:New World Symphony
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Your BPO presents an evocative musical narration of “From the Diary of Anne Frank\,” composed by former BPO Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Contrasting the program is Antonin Dvořák’s well-known love letter to North America\, “From the New World.”[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram\nTeddy Abrams\, conductor\nCantor-Rabbi Penny Myers\, narrator \n\n\n\nMICHAEL TILSON THOMAS\nFrom the Diary of Anne Frank\nPart 1: Allegro con brio\nPart 2: Lento e lugubre\nPart 3: Allegretto con movimento\n\n\n\nINTERMISSION \n\n\n\nDVOŘÁK \nSymphony No. 9 in E minor\, Op. 95\, “From the New World”\nI. Adagio – Allegro molto\nII. Largo\nIII. Scherzo: Molto vivace\nIV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nAbout Teddy Abrams\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Teddy Abrams\, Musical America’s 2022 Conductor of the Year\, is now in his tenth season as Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra (LO). As profiled by the New York Times\, CBS Sunday Morning\, The New Yorker\, NPR\, Opera News\, the Wall Street Journal\, PBS’ Articulate\, and PBS’ NewsHour\, he has been the galvanizing force behind the orchestra’s extraordinary artistic renewal and innovative community engagement since his appointment in September 2014. \n2023-24 season highlights for Abrams and LO include the mandolinist\, vocalist\, and composer Chris Thile joining them for a leg of their historic multi-season state tour\, “In Harmony – The Commonwealth Tour of the Louisville Orchestra.” Other season highlights include music of Gabriel Kahane and John Adams\, Mahler’s “Tragic” Symphony No. 6\, and “Creators Fest” concerts featuring world premieres of works from the Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps. \nAbrams continues to be in high demand as a guest conductor\, this winter making his debut in Helsinki in addition to the BPO\, and returning to the Utah Symphony. Highlights of his 2022-23 season included engagements with the Chicago\, Cincinnati\, Colorado\, Kansas City\, and Pacific Symphonies; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg; and Innsbruck’s Tyrol Symphony Orchestra. \nAn award-winning composer\, in April 2023 Abrams premiered his own Mammoth with cellist Yo-Yo Ma\, bass-baritone Davóne Tines\, and the LO in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave. Other recent compositional highlights include a piano concerto for Yuja Wang\, with which he and the Louisville Orchestra made their Deutsche Grammophon debuts on her March 2023 release\, The American Project\, and Space Variations\, composed for Universal Music Group’s 2022 World Sleep Day. Abrams is now at work on ALI\, a musical about Muhammad Ali scheduled to premiere in fall 2024 in Louisville\, the boxer’s birthplace\, before opening on Broadway in spring 2025. \nOther notable Louisville collaborations include the song cycle The Order of Nature\, composed with Jim James\, vocalist and guitarist for My Morning Jacket\, and recorded with the LO on Decca Gold. On the same label\, Abrams\, the LO\, and singer-songwriter Storm Large recorded All In\, featuring American music by Cole Porter\, Aaron Copland\, and Abrams and Large themselves.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nAbout Cantor-Rabbi Penny Myers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nNative Buffalonian Cantor Penny Myers has been described as “versatile\,” “engaging\,” “warm\,” and “gifted.” Her lyric soprano caught the attention of world-renowned expert in Jewish liturgical music\, Cantor Mordechai Sobol. In 2018 at his invitation\, she recorded the Jewish prayer “Kol Nidrei” at Eshel Studios in Tel Aviv\, Israel and became an international recording artist. After his passing\, Myers learned she was the fifth woman and last Cantor to be recorded in studio with Cantor Sobol.In 1996\, Myers earned a B.A. in music (voice) from Buffalo State University\, where she was a soprano soloist with the Chamber Ensemble’s central European tour. She continued her education at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, earning a Master of Arts in Teaching Music Education in 1999. \nIt was Cantor Myers’ devotion to her faith and desire to keep Jewish musical traditions alive that led her to study under Cantor Benjamin Maissner in Toronto\, earning her Hazzan (Hebrew for ‘Cantor’) credential from the Cantors Assembly. During the pandemic Cantor Myers began studying for the Rabbinate\, and in 2022 she received Rabbinic Ordination from Mesifta Adas Wolkowisk – Rabbinical Academy of America\, making history in Buffalo as the first and only dually ordained Jewish clergy person in Western New York. \nCantor-Rabbi Myers is married to neurologist Dr. Bennett Myers and has three children: Hunter\, Saul\, and Corrinne. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://bpo.org/event/new-world-symphony/2024-02-17/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
CATEGORIES:2023-2024 season,2023-24 Classics Series
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SUMMARY:Shostakovich & Six Strings
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]”A musical portrait of Stalin\,” has described Shostakovich’s primarily oppressive and sinister Tenth Symphony\, his first in five years after a Soviet denouncement of his music. Composer Daron Hagen touts the performance of electric guitarist D.J. Sparr on his Electric Guitar Concerto as a “joyous\, celebratory romp.” Desert Transport portrays experiencing the sound sensations of a helicopter in flight.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nThe BPO Coffee Concert Series is presented by Highmark. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram\nRobert Moody\, conductor\nD. J. Sparr\, electric guitar \nMASON BATES  Desert Transport\nDARON HAGEN  Film Noir: Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra\n1. Pacific Coast Highway\n2. Torch Song\n3. You Should See the Other Guy\n4. Maybe Not Today \n–INTERMISSION– \nSHOSTAKOVICH  Symphony No. 10\nI. Moderato\nII. Allegro\nIII. Allegretto\nIV. Andante – Allegro[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Join us after Saturday’s concert for a Musician’s Nightcap! \nMeet us on the lower level after Saturday’s performance for light conversations with BPO musicians and complimentary wine and bites\, hosted by BPO double bassist Jonathan Borden. This special event is FREE and open to all who attend Saturday’s concert.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nAbout D. J. Sparr\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Composer and electric guitarist D. J. Sparr\, who Gramophone recently hailed as “exemplary\,” is one of America’s preeminent composer-performers. He has caught the attention of critics with his eclectic style\, described as “pop-Romantic…iridescent and wondrous” (The Mercury News) and “suits the boundary-erasing spirit of today’s new music world” (The New York Times). Los Angeles Times praises him as “an excellent soloist\,” and the Santa Cruz Sentinel says that he “wowed an enthusiastic audience…Sparr’s guitar sang in a near-human voice.” \nSparr was the electric guitar concerto soloist on the 2018 GRAMMY Award-winning album with JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2011\, Sparr was named one of NPR listeners’ favorite 100 composers under the age 40. He has composed for and performed with renowned ensembles such as the Houston Grand Opera\, Cabrillo Festival\, New World Symphony\, Washington National Opera\, and Eighth Blackbird. His music has received awards from BMI\, New Music USA\, and the League of Composers/ISCM. Sparr is a faculty member at the famed Walden School’s Creative Musicians Retreat in Dublin\, New Hampshire. His works and guitar performances appear on Naxos\, Innova Recordings\, and Centaur Records. \nD. J. lives in Baton Rouge\, Louisiana with his wife Kimberly\, son Harris\, Nannette the hound dog\, and Bundini the boxer. D. J. Sparr’s music is published by Bill Holab Music.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://bpo.org/event/shostakovich-six-strings/2024-02-02/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Schumann's Rhine Journey
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Schumann’s Third Symphony is filled with his joyful appreciation of the Rhine River and the inspiring cathedral on its banks in Cologne\, Germany. A Sphinx Virtuosi commission\, Delights and Dances by Michael Abels is an infectious and witty blend of jazz and blues. The world premiere of a BPO-commissioned Oboe Concerto by Randall Svane rounds out the program. \nThis performance is sponsored by the Constance Shepard Walsh Memorial Endowment Fund. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram\nJoAnn Falletta\, conductor\nHenry Ward\, oboe \nMICHAEL ABELS  Delights and Dances\nRANDALL SVANE  Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (World Premiere)\nI. Flowing\nII. Very slow\nIII. Quick and light \n–INTERMISSION– \nSCHUMANN  Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major\, Op. 97\, “Rhenish”\nI. Lebhaft\nII. Scherzo: Sehr mäβig\nIII. Nicht schnell\nIV. Feierlich\nV. Lebhaft[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nAbout Henry Ward\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nA native of the Philadelphia area\, oboist Henry Ward joined the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra as Principal Oboe in 2016\, having previously served as acting Associate Principal Oboe of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with the Philadelphia and Minnesota orchestras\, the Boston Pops\, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (New Zealand)\, and was a fellow with the New World Symphony. As a chamber musician\, he has performed with the Marlboro Music Festival\, Friends of Vienna\, Buffalo Chamber Players\, and toured with The Knights and Zéphyros Winds. He has performed as a soloist in orchestras around the United States and has been featured with the BPO on several occasions\, most recently in Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat major in 2021. \nHenry has participated in the Lakes Area Music Festival and Oregon Bach Festival as Principal Oboe since 2016. He also received fellowships to the Music Academy of the West and Tanglewood Music Center\, where he received the Mickey L. Hooten Memorial Award. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with Boston Symphony oboists Mark McEwen and John Ferrillo\, followed by a master’s degree\, studying with Eugene Izotov and Scott Hostetler at the Chicago College of Performing Arts\, Roosevelt University. \nHenry also teaches privately\, and has given masterclasses around western New York\, the U.S.\, and internationally. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://bpo.org/event/schumanns-rhine-journey/2024-01-27/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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