{ Program Notes
Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho ny Hall
B a l t i mo r e S y m p h o n y O r c h e s t r a
Marin Alsop
Music Director • Harvey M. And Lyn P. Meyerhoff Chair
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
Plays Shostakovich
Friday, March 7, 2014— 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 8, 2014— 8 p.m.
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Violin
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise, opus 34, No. 14
Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, opus 99
Nocturne: Adagio
Scherzo: Allegro non troppo
Passacaglia: Andante
Burlesca: Allegro con brio
NADJA SALERNO-SONNENBERG
INTERMISSION
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, opus 45
Non allegro
Andante con moto (Tempo di valse)
Lento assai — Allegro vivace
The concert will end at approximately 9:50 p.m.
Support for today's performance is provided
by the Governing Members of the BSO
Marin Alsop
Ch r istian Stei n er
For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 12.
Nadja SalernoSonnenberg
Highly regarded
for her compelling
performances, daring
interpretations and dedication to her
craft, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is one
of today’s leading violinists, renowned
for her work on the concert stage, in the
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recording studio, and in her role as music
director of the San Francisco-based New
Century Chamber Orchestra, which she
joined in January 2008.
Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg’s 2013 –2014
season includes a five-city North American recital tour with pianist Anne-Marie
McDermott, and orchestral engagements
in the US and abroad, as well as New
Century’s 22nd season which includes the
world premiere of Michael Daugherty’s
new violin concerto, Falling Water, written for her. In May 2014, she releases the
eleventh recording for her record label,
NSS MUSIC, an all-commissions CD
with New Century Chamber Orchestra,
featuring works by Clarice Assad, William
Bolcom, Michael Daugherty and Ellen
Taaffe Zwilich.
Recent performance highlights included a successful third U.S. tour with
New Century; solo appearances with the
Philadelphia, National, Seattle, Vancouver, Oregon, Colorado, Milwaukee
and Minnesota symphony orchestras
in North America; with the NHK
Symphony Orchestra in Japan and the
Buenos Aires Philharmonic.
Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg’s professional
career began in 1981, when she won
the Walter W. Naumburg International
Violin Competition. She is the recipient
of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the
prestigious Avery Fisher Prize.
An American citizen, Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg was born in Rome and emigrated
to the United States at the age of eight to
study at The Curtis Institute of Music.
She later studied with Dorothy DeLay at
The Juilliard School.
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg last appeared with the BSO in January 2012,
performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, with Marin Alsop conducting.
About the concert:
Vocalise, opus 34, no. 14
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Born in Oneg near Novgorod, Russia,
April 1, 1873; died in Beverly Hills, California,
March 28, 1943
Though his chosen instrument, the
piano, is categorized as a percussion
instrument, Sergei Rachmaninoff
became one of music’s most inspired
melodists. His piano concertos burst
with surging, soaring melodies, such
as the glorious 18th variation of his
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. And
alongside his instrumental works, he
poured his lyrical gift into some 80
songs, whose popularity is only limited
by their being in the Russian language