2017-2018 Season Brochure Choose 4 Concerts: Strathmore

SEPTEMBER 2017 Pinchas Zukerman FEBRUARY 2018 STEPHEN HOUGH PERFORMS MENDELSSOHN TCHAIKOVSKY THRILL RIDE THU, SEP 14 | 8 PM THU, FEB 1 | 8 PM Marin Alsop, Music Director Łukasz Kuropaczewski, guitar PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION SAT, FEB 17 | 8 PM Nicholas Hersh, Associate Conductor Joyce Yang, piano SAT, SEP 23 | 8 PM Marin Alsop, Music Director Lukáš Vondráček, piano OFF THE CUFF: WAGNER’S QUEST FRI, OCT 6 | 8:15 PM Markus Stenz, Principal Guest Conductor WAGNER // Selections from Parsifal WAGNER’S QUEST Frankie Moreno MENDELSSOHN // Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor BRUCKNER // Symphony No. 9 in D Minor POETIC FIRE: FROM HAMLET TO DON JUAN OCTOBER 2017 PRICE // Dances in the Canebrakes PROKOFIEV // Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL // Pictures at an Exhibition ANDRÉ WATTS RETURNS FOR RACH 2 SAT, NOV 18 | 8 PM Robert Spano, conductor André Watts, piano OFF THE CUFF: RITE OF SPRING FRI, FEB 23 | 8:15 PM MAHLER’S TITAN Marin Alsop, Music Director THU, APR 19 | 8 PM STRAVINSKY // Rite of Spring Markus Stenz, Principal Guest Conductor Jonathan Carney, violin Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello Ryo Yanagitani, piano CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS // Dreamtime Ancestors ELGAR // Falstaff RACHMANINOFF // Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor Marin Alsop BEETHOVEN // Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Piano MAHLER // Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Titan” DECEMBER 2017 OFF THE CUFF: TCHAIKOVSKY WITH BALANCHINE SUN, OCT 8 | 3 PM Markus Stenz, Principal Guest Conductor Jonathan Carney, violin MENDELSSOHN // The Hebrides Overture BRUCH // Scottish Fantasy WAGNER // Selections from Parsifal SUPERPOPS: CIRQUE GOES BROADWAY OFF THE CUFF: MOZART’S MYSTERIOUS REQUIEM Marin Alsop, Music Director University of Maryland Concert Choir MOZART’S REQUIEM Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor Cirque de la Symphonie Ben Crawford, vocalist Charlie Metzger III, vocalist Christina DeCicco, vocalist Marin Alsop, Music Director University of Maryland Concert Choir SYMPHONIC STORIES JANUARY 2018 CHRISTOPHER ROUSE // Berceuse Infinie (World Premiere Commission) MOZART // Requiem Sol Gabetta Marin Alsop, Music Director Branford Marsalis, saxophone MARCH 2018 MOZART // Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART // Concerto for Flute and Harp MOZART // Symphony No. 41 in C Major, “Jupiter” Marin Alsop, Music Director Visuals from the Baltimore Museum of Art DEBUSSY // La Mer RAVEL // La Valse CONCERTO FANTASY FOR TWO TIMPANISTS SUN, JAN 14 | 3 PM Marin Alsop, Music Director James Wyman and Jauvon Gilliam, timpani Lura Johnson and Michael Sheppard, piano Wordsmith, narrator Marin Alsop, Music Director Sol Gabetta, cello RITE OF SPRING SUN, FEB 25 | 3 PM Bernard Labadie, conductor Emily Skala, flute Sarah Fuller, harp FRI, JAN 12 | 8:15 PM SAT, OCT 28 | 8 PM TCHAIKOVSKY WITH BALANCHINE SUN, APR 29 | 3 PM SAT, JAN 6 | 8 PM OFF THE CUFF: IMPRESSIONIST MASTERWORKS SOL GABETTA PERFORMS TCHAIKOVSKY The George Balanchine Trust) ANNA CLYNE // Abstractions IBERT // Concertino da camera MILHAUD // Scaramouche STRAVINSKY // Rite of Spring MOZART’S JUPITER SAINT-SAËNS // Danse Macabre MOZART // Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major R. STRAUSS // Don Quixote TCHAIKOVSKY // Serenade for Strings in C Major (Choreography by George Balanchine © MOZART // Requiem SUN, DEC 3 | 3 PM Jun Märkl, conductor Jonathan Biss, piano Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello Lisa Steltenpohl, viola FRI, APR 27 | 8:15 PM Marin Alsop, Music Director Deborah Wingert, stage director Baltimore School for the Arts Dancers, coached by Heather Watts FRI, DEC 1 | 8:15 PM THU, OCT 12 | 8 PM SAT, OCT 21 | 8 PM SAINT-SAËNS // Carnival of the Animals (With Hip-Hop Narration) PHILIP GLASS // Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists DEBUSSY // La Mer RAVEL // La Valse TCHAIKOVSKY’S VIVID VIRTUOSITY SAT, JAN 20 | 8 PM SUPERPOPS: FROM VIENNA TO 42 ND STREET THU, MAR 8 | 8 PM Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor Ted Keegan, vocalist Kristen Plumley, vocalist Ben Crawford, vocalist Baltimore Choral Arts Society SCHUBERT THE GREAT THU, MAR 15 | 8 PM Lahav Shani, conductor Nikolai Lugansky, piano PROKOFIEV // Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor SCHUBERT // Symphony No. 9 in C Major, “The Great” RACHMANINOFF // Isle of the Dead WEBER // Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major TCHAIKOVSKY // Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Little Russian” APRIL 2018 SAT, APR 7 | 8 PM NOVEMBER 2017 SUPERPOPS: DIVA TO DIVA – FROM ELLA TO ADELE THU, NOV 9 | 8 PM BACH // Violin Concerto in A Minor SCHOENBERG // Verklärte Nacht (1943) BEETHOVEN // Symphony No. 2 in D Major MAY 2018 SUPERPOPS: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK – MOVIE WITH ORCHESTRA THU, MAY 10 | 8 PM Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor LISZT AND BRAHMS SAT, MAY 19 | 8 PM Mario Venzago, conductor Kit Armstrong, piano LISZT // Les Préludes MOZART // Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major BRAHMS // Symphony No. 3 in F Major GERSHWIN’S PIANO CONCERTO THU, MAY 31 | 8 PM STRAVINSKY // Suite from The Firebird (1919) GERSHWIN // Concerto in F SCHUMANN // Symphony No. 2 in C Major SAT, MAR 24 | 8 PM BARTÓK // Concerto for Orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY // Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin The George Balanchine Trust) Peter Oundjian, conductor Yao Guang Zhai, clarinet Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor Ann Hampton Callaway, vocalist TCHAIKOVSKY // Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture TCHAIKOVSKY // Suite from Swan Lake TCHAIKOVSKY // Serenade for Strings in C Major (Choreography by George Balanchine © Marin Alsop, Music Director Kirill Gerstein, piano MENDELSSOHN // A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture TCHAIKOVSKY // Variations on a Rococo Theme DEBUSSY // Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun R. STRAUSS // Der Rosenkavalier Suite THU, JAN 25 | 8 PM Marin Alsop, Music Director Deborah Wingert, stage director Baltimore School for the Arts Dancers, coached by Heather Watts RACHMANINOFF’S TRANSCENDENT FANTASY Marin Alsop, Music Director Gabriela Montero, piano PINCHAS ZUKERMAN PERFORMS BACH THU, APR 12 | 8 PM Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor Frankie Moreno, vocalist Günther Herbig, conductor Stephen Hough, piano JOHN ADAMS // Short Ride in a Fast Machine JOHN ADAMS // Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance (East Coast Premiere) RODRIGO // Concierto de Aranjuez TCHAIKOVSKY // Symphony No. 5 in E Minor TCHAIKOVSKY // Hamlet Fantasy-Overture After Shakespeare R. STRAUSS // Don Juan RACHMANINOFF // Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor SUPERPOPS: VEGAS NIGHTS WITH FRANKIE MORENO SYMPHONIC DANCES Markus Stenz, Principal Guest Conductor Arabella Steinbacher, violin BEETHOVEN // Symphony No.1 in C Major KORNGOLD // Violin Concerto in D Major RACHMANINOFF // Symphonic Dances JUNE 2018 SHOSTAKOVICH’S HIDDEN THEMES SAT, JUN 9 | 8 PM Marin Alsop, Music Director Jon Kimura Parker, piano BERNSTEIN // Slava! A Political Overture BERNSTEIN // Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety” SHOSTAKOVICH // Symphony No. 5 in D Minor FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS, VISIT BSOmusic.org/CHOOSE4

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