{ Program Notes
Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho ny Hall
B a lt i m o r e S y m p h o n y O rc h e s t r a
Marin Alsop
Music Director • Harvey M. And Lyn P. Meyerhoff Chair
Dvořák’s New World Symphony
Thursday, January 9, 2014 — 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 12, 2014 — 3 p.m.
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Manuel Barrueco, Guitar
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings
Jonathan Leshnoff Guitar Concerto
(World Premiere and BSO Co-Commission)
Maestoso, Allegro
: Hod, Adagio
Finale, lively
MANUEL BARRUECO
INTERMISSION
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, opus 95,
“From the New World”
Adagio – Allegro molto
Largo
Molto vivace
Allegro con fuoco
Los Angeles Philharmonic to New York’s
Lincoln Center. He has appeared with prestigious orchestras, such as the Philadelphia
Orchestra and the Boston Symphony under
the direction of Seiji Ozawa, in the American premiere of Toru Takemitsu’s To the
Edge of Dream. He also appears regularly
with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
and with San Francisco Performances.
Barrueco’s 2013 –2014 season includes
recitals in the U.S., Germany, Spain, Italy,
Turkey and Holland, and he will also tour
the United States with the Casals Quartet,
premiering a new work written for him and
string quartet by Roberto Sierra. Other
scheduled performances include concertos
with the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de
Sao Paulo (OSESP) in Brazil; the Asturias
Symphony Orchestra in Spain; the Florida
Orchestra; the Dayton Philharmonic; and
the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where
he will premiere a new concerto written
for him by composer Jonathan Leshnoff.
In addition to concertizing, he is on the
faculty of the Peabody Conservatory, and
an artist-in-residence for the Conservatory
of Music in Puerto Rico and the University
of Alicante, Spain.
Manuel Barrueco last appeared with the
BSO in January 2006, performing Rodriguez’s Concierto de Aranjuez, with Stefan
Sanderling conducting.
The concert will end at approximately 9:45 p.m. on Thursday and 4:45 p.m. on Sunday.
The world premiere and co-commission of Jonathan
Leshnoff 's Guitar Concerto is generously underwritten
by the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience
of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and
Elaine and Solomon Snyder.
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 12.
Manuel
Barrueco
Grammy-nominated
Manuel Barrueco
is internationally
recognized as one of the most important
guitarists of our time. His unique artistry
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has been described as that of a superb
instrumentalist and a superior and elegant
musician, possessing a seductive sound
and uncommon lyrical gifts.
Barrueco's career is dedicated to
bringing the guitar to the main musical
centers of the world. Over three decades of
concertizing, he has performed across the
United States from the New World Symphony in Miami to the Seattle Symphony,
and from the Hollywood Bowl with the
About the concert:
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber
Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, March 9,
1910; died in New York City, January 23, 1981
Like most American music lovers in the
1930s, Samuel Barber was mesmerized by
Arturo Toscanini and his fiery interpretations of the great symphonic and operatic literature. In 1933, the 23-year-old
composer used his status as nephew of
the celebrated operatic contralto Louise
Homer, one of Toscanini’s favorite singers,
to pay a visit to the maestro at his summer
retreat on Lake Maggiore in northern
Italy. To his delight, they struck up an immediate friendship, and the old conductor