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David Fray
Music Box
Our Maryland
Sat, Apr 29, 10am & 11:30am Silver Spring Civic Building
Sat, May 6, 10am & 11:30am [ M ]
Celebrate our home state with music, dance and songs. For children 6 months – 3 years.
Stravinsky’ s Firebird
Thu, May 4, 8 pm [ M ] Sun, May 7, 3 pm [ S ]
Markus Stenz, conductor David Fray, piano
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major Stravinsky: The Firebird( Complete)
Principal Guest Conductor Markus Stenz gives us a rare opportunity to hear the color and brilliance of Stravinsky’ s complete score for The Firebird, the commission from Diaghilev’ s Ballet Russes that catapulted him to fame in pre-WWI Paris. Years later, Paris was again the setting for Ravel’ s popular jazz-inflected concerto, a perfect vehicle for the musical refinement and elegance of French pianist David Fray, who makes his BSO debut.
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Off The Cuff
Stravinsky’ s Firebird
Fri, May 5, 8:15 pm [ S ] Sat, May 6, 7 pm [ M ] *
Markus Stenz, conductor
Stravinsky: The Firebird( Complete)
Principal Guest Conductor Markus Stenz reveals the genesis of Stravinsky’ s groundbreaking ballet score Firebird.
* Join us for an after-party in the Meyerhoff lobby featuring live entertainment, food and drink specials.
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BSO Pulse:
Lower Dens
Thu, May 11, 8:30 pm [ M ]
BSO Pulse brings together the worlds of classical music and indie rock onto one stage. The night kicks off at 5:30 pm with a party in the lobby featuring live music, happy hour drink specials, and food from our favorite Baltimore restaurants and breweries.
Till Eulenspiegel’ s Merry Pranks
FRI, May 12, 8 pm [ M ]
Sat, May 13, 8 pm [ S ]
Markus Stenz, conductor Andrew Balio, trumpet
Mozart: Symphony No. 29 Haydn: Trumpet Concerto Detlev Glanert: Frenesia
( BSO Premiere) Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’ s
Merry Pranks
Transforming the orchestral palette, Markus Stenz introduces fun and frantic Frenesia, an ironic homage to Richard Strauss, whose own whimsical tribute to the medieval trouble-maker, Till Eulenspiegel, makes for a rousing finale.
BSO SuperPops
E. T. The Extraterrestrial in Concert
Thu, May 18, 8 pm [ S ]
Fri, May 19, 8 pm [ M ]
Sat, May 20, 3 pm [ M ]
Sat, May 20, 8 pm [ M ]
Sun, May 21, 3 pm [ M ]
Jack Everly, conductor
Soar through the stars with Steven Spielberg’ s masterpiece as you’ ve never seen or heard it before! Jack Everly conducts John Williams’ Academy Award-winning score live as the classic film is projected on a giant HD screen. Bring the whole family to experience the magic of Elliott and his friend from far, far away.
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Gershwin and Prokofiev
Fri, June 2, 8 pm [ M ] Sat, June 3, 8 pm [ S ] Sun, June 4, 3 pm [ M ]
Christoph König, conductor Vadim Gluzman, violin
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliées Gershwin: An American in Paris
Four peer composers looked to France for inspiration with wildly different results. Christoph König opens with Ravel’ s gentle memorial dedicated to friends lost in the war. Gershwin’ s jazzy, raucous riff on Paris will have us humming into the night.
Brandenburg Concertos
Thu, June 8, 8 pm [ S ]
Sat, June 10, 8 pm [ M ]
Sun, June 11, 3 pm [ M ]
Marin Alsop, conductor Featuring soloists from the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra
Bach ' s beloved Brandenburg Concertos come to life in the hands of Marin Alsop and the BSO. Widely regarded as some of the best orchestral compositions of the Baroque era, the six unique concertos showcase both the power of the orchestra and the talents of the highly-skilled soloists.
Music Box
Celebrate Summertime
Sat, June 10, 10am & 11:30 am [ M ]
Listen, bounce and move around to music all about summertime, sunshine, the beach, ice cream, swimming and more! For children 6 months – 3 years.
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Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony
Thu, June 15, 8 pm [ M ]
Fri, June 16, 8 pm [ M ]
Sat, June 17, 8 pm [ S ]
Sun, June 18, 3 pm [ M ]
Marin Alsop, conductor Gil Shaham, violin
Christopher Theofanidis:
The Game( World Premiere, BSO Centennial Celebration Commission)* Beethoven: Violin Concerto Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3,
“ Organ”
Marin Alsop pulls out all the stops for the BSO’ s closing concert with one of her signature works, Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3,“ Organ.” Add to that the Beethoven Violin Concerto with audience favorite Gil Shaham, who will dazzle and charm with his virtuosity. This is a program that is grand in every way— a fitting close to the first season of our second century.
* Commissioned for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Marin Alsop by Classical Movements, Inc. as part of the Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program. Also made possible by a grant from New Music USA through a generous contribution from Thomas Brener and Inbal Segev, and additionally supported by the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Randolph S. and Amalie R. Rothschild Endowed Fund for New Music.
The appearance of violinst Gil Shaham is made possible through the major support of the Alvin and Fanny Blaustein Thalheimer
Guest Artist Fund.
Gil Shaham
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Luke Ratray( Shaham); Paolo Roversi( Fray) |
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