Overture Magazine: 2016-2017 Season May-June 2017 | Page 35

program notes {
Marin Alsop
Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Thursday, June 15, 2017— 8 pm
Friday, June 16, 2017— 8 pm
Sunday, June 18, 2017— 3 pm
Music Center At Strathmore
Saturday, June 17, 2017— 8 pm
Presenting Sponsor:
Marin Alsop, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin

Christopher Theofanidis

The Game (BSO Centennial Commission,
World Premiere)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
Allegro ma non troppo
Larghetto
Rondo: Allegro
GIL SHAHAM
INTERMISSION

Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78,

“Organ Symphony”
Adagio – Allegro moderato – Poco adagio
Allegro moderato – Presto – Maestoso
The concert will end at approximately 9:40 pm on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday and 4:35 pm on Sunday.
The appearance of violinist Gil Shaham is made possible through
the major support of the Alvin and Fanny Blaustein Thalheimer
Guest Artist Fund.
Christopher Theofanidis’ The Game was 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.
For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7.
Gil Shaham
Gil Shaham, Grammy
Award-winner and
Musical America’s
“Instrumentalist
of the Year,” regularly gives recitals and
appears on the world’s great concert stages
and at the most prestigious festivals.
Mr. Shaham began 2017 with a return
to St. Paul’s Ordway Music Theater, con-
tinuing his multi-season tour of J.S. Bach’s
complete sonatas and partitas for solo
violin. He joined the St. Louis Symphony
and David Robertson with his interpreta-
tion of Korngold’s Violin Concerto and
performed Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto
No. 2 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
under the baton of Lionel Bringuier.
The 2015 – 2016 season included ap-
pearances with the Berlin Philharmonic,
the Boston Symphony, the Los Angeles
Philharmonic and the Orchestre de Paris.
He als