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BEETHOVEN EROICA SYMPHONY
SUNDAYS @ 7:30PM
CHAMBER MUSIC BY CANDLELIGHT
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BALTIMORE SYMPHONY
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SEP 23 , 2018
Join us to mingle with the musicians at a free post-concert reception !
OCT 21 , 2018 NOV 11 , 2018
SUNDAYS @ 3:30PM
SEP 16 , 2018 BENJAMIN PASTERNACK , PIANO
SEP 30 , 2018 MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY CHOIR
OCT 27 , 2018 ( 5:00PM )
DAVID SIMON : A TRIBUTE CONCERT
NOV 04 , 2018 ZODIAC TRIO
For more information call 443.759.3309 or visit CommunityConcertsAtSecond . org symphonies and concertos , released in July of 2014 on the Decca label . A native of White Plains , NY , Ohlsson began his piano studies at the age of eight , at the Westchester Conservatory of Music ; at 13 he entered The Juilliard School . His musical development has been influenced in completely different ways by a succession of distinguished teachers , most notably Claudio Arrau , Olga Barabini , Tom Lishman , Sascha Gorodnitzki , Rosina Lhévinne and Irma Wolpe . Although he won First Prizes at the 1966 Busoni Competition in Italy and the 1968 Montreal Piano Competition , it was his 1970 triumph at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw , where he won the Gold Medal ( and remains the single American to have done so ), that brought him worldwide recognition as one of the finest pianists of his generation . Since then he has made nearly a dozen tours of Poland , where he retains immense personal popularity . Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor , MI . He is also the 2014 recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music . He makes his home in San Francisco .
Garrick Ohlsson last appeared with the BSO in February 2015 , performing Rachmaninoff ’ s Piano Concerto No . 2 , Marin Alsop , conductor .
About the Concert
NEW MORNING FOR THE WORLD ( DAYBREAK OF FREEDOM )
Joseph Schwantner
Born in Chicago , IL , March 22 , 1943 ; now living in Spofford , NH
American composer Joseph Schwantner won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his orchestral work Aftertones of Infinity and in 1981 took the first prize at the equally prestigious Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards for a chamber work Music of Amber . But he is most famous today for another piece : his symphonic setting of the words of Martin Luther King , Jr ., New Morning for the World , which he composed in 1982 . Since its premiere by the Eastman Philharmonia in January 1983 in Rochester , NY and following that at the Kennedy Center , it has taken its place alongside another famed work for orchestra and narrator — Aaron Copland ’ s A Lincoln Portrait of 1942 — as the musical centerpiece of choice for many official American celebrations .
The idea for this work originally came from Robert Freeman , director of the Eastman School , who suggested that Schwantner consider writing a work using the former star first baseman of the Pittsburgh Pirates , Willie Stargell , as narrator . Schwantner decided to create a work based on excerpts from King ’ s eloquent , visionary speeches as a memorial to “ a man of great dignity and courage , whom I have long admired .” He worked closely with Stargell to compile the text , which draws on many of King ’ s most renowned utterances , including “ How long , not long ” and “ I Have a Dream .” After Stargell narrated the premiere performances , countless other prominent African Americans have lent their voices to the work .
While A Lincoln Portrait certainly provided inspiration for the musical style of New Morning , Schwantner ’ s orchestral writing is much more elaborate , sumptuously colorful , and harmonically adventurous than Copland ’ s , and there are long passages without the narrator in which the
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