2012-13 Masters Concerts 15th Anniversary Season
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Tennessee Williams Theatre, Key West
Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, Aventura
Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale
Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square
Master Concerts III
From Darkness Comes the Light
Zuill Bailey, cello
“Bailey is one of the most exciting cellists to come along in years.”
~ The Kansas City Star
Zuill Bailey returns to the SFSO stage to perform the famed and intimate Cello Concerto of Elgar. Brahm’s Second seemed to bloom as spontaneously as a spring blossom in a forest glade. Its genial, outgoing character sets it apart from Brahms’s three other symphonies; this is the one understandably regarded as his “pastoral” symphony, and it is surely the most directly endearing of the four. The Rosamunde Overture is one of Schubert’s finest instrumental works and opens this season’s final Master Concerts.
PROGRAM
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Zuill Bailey, cello
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Schubert: Rosamunde Overture
Tennessee Williams Theatre, Friday, April 5 at 8pm (7:15pm, pre-concert Chats with Edward Pitts) ~ Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, Saturday, April 6 at 8pm ~ Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Monday, April 8 at 7:30pm ~ Old School Square, Delray Beach, Tuesday, April 9 at 7:30pm
Past Events
PLara St. John opens the SFSO season playing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
“Lara St. John squeezes the soul out of a note or a melody. She went to the emotional in the Tchaikovsky, communing with its fire and sweetness — as if she were Russian-born, this Canadian fiddler”. ~ San Jose Mercury News
Bruckner’s works are vast, of epic design, and on a monumental scale, often entering into the realm of the grandiose and sublime. Bruckner himself gave the title Romantic to the 4th Symphony.
He meant this not in the modern, emotional sense, but suggesting a medieval story of love and chivalry.
The SFSO celebrates its 15th Anniversary with its first performance ever of a Bruckner Symphony.
PROGRAM
Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 Romantic
SCHEDULE
Tennessee Williams Theatre, Friday, Nov. 16 at 8pm (7:15pm, pre-concert Chats with Edward Pitts)
Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, Saturday, Nov. 17 at 8pm
Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Monday, Nov. 19 at 7:30pm
Old School Square, Delray Beach, Tuesday, Nov. 20 at 7:30pm
Master Concerts II
Epic Heroes and Their Goddesses
Natasha Paremski, piano
Natasha Paremski’s softly expressive tone gave no inkling of the forces she would unleash, embracing fearlessly the extremes of tenderness and fierce passion. ~ The Guardian, UK
Strauss’s described his tone poem Macbeth as “a completely new path” for him compositionally. Strauss displays musical portraits of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, a musical reminder of the ambition, madness, and greatness that characterizes Macbeth. Pohjola’s Daughter was inspired by Finland’s national epic, the Kalevala and the exploits of the heroes Kullervo and Lemminkäinen.
Lemminkäinen is celebrated for his conquest of Kyllikki and the maidens of Saari as well as his visit to Tuonela, the Land of Death. Eroticism has its place in this vast collection, and so does humor.
Composed in 1892, this is Debussy’s tribute to Scotland, the title of the piece translates to “Scottish March based on a Popular Theme”
PROGRAM
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
Natasha Paremski, piano
Strauss, R.: Macbeth, Symphonic Poem
Sibelius: Pohjola’s Daughter, A Symphonic Fantasy
Debussy: Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire
Tennessee Williams Theatre, Friday, Jan. 11 at 8pm (7:15pm, pre-concert Chats with Edward Pitts) ~ Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, Saturday, Jan. 12 at 8pm ~ Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Monday, Jan. 14 at 7:30pm ~ Old School Square, Delray Beach, Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 7:30pm
