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Orchestra under Marin Alsop. Other
recent premieres include The Violin, a
multimedia collaboration with artist Josh
Dorman and violinists Cornelius Dufallo
and Amy Kauffman, The Lost Thought,
performed by Trio Mediæval with conductor Julian Wachner, and A Wonderful Day
for the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
Ms. Clyne holds a Bachelor of Music
degree from Edinburgh University and a
Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music.
Ms. Clyne states, “Abstractions is a suite
of five movements inspired by five contrasting contemporary artworks from the Baltimore Museum of Art and from the private
collection of Rheda Becker and Robert
Meyerhoff, whom this music honors.”
Please see program insert for images of
the artwork and Ms. Clyne’s statement
about tonight’s world premiere, commissioned by the BSO by Bonnie McElveenHunter in honor and friendship of Rheda
Becker and Robert E. Meyerhoff.

LET’S GET
STARTED.

Instrumentation: Three flutes (including
piccolo), three oboes (including English horn),
three clarinets (including bass clarinet), three
bassoons (including contrabassoon), four
horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba,
percussion, piano, celesta, harp, and strings.

Selections from Carmen

Georges Bizet

Born in Paris, France, October 25, 1838;
died in Bougival, France, June 3, 1875

Georges Bizet’s life was as ill-fated as
those of his unforgettable operatic lovers,
Carmen and Don José. A child prodigy
who wrote his enchanting Symphony in C
at age 17, he was dogged throughout his
brief career by illness and bad luck. Even
his masterpiece Carmen, one of the most
popular operas ever written, was a failure at
its first performance on March 3, 1875 at
Paris’ Opéra-Comique. Worn down by the
controversies surrounding its production,
Bizet’s health collapsed, and on June 3rd,
exactly three months after the premiere, he
died of a heart attack, aged 36.
If Bizet had lived only another year, he
would have watched his gypsy heroine

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