2015 - 2016 ORCHESTRA concert announcements

[listener]

CLEVELAND
http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2015/03/a_bountiful_array_of_music_art.html

includes Bluebeard's Castle, Dvorak's Stabat Mater and an interesting October weekend
Thirsday Oct. 8 Franz Welser-Most conducts Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" and Messiaen's "Quatre Meditations Symphoniques" and "Couleurs de la Cite Celeste," with pianist Joela Jones.

Friday, Oct. 9, at 8 p.m.: Franz Welser-Most conducts Messiaen's "Chronochromie" and "Couleurs de la Cite Celeste," and Verdi's "Stabat Mater" and Te Deum, with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and pianist Joela Jones.

Saturday, Oct. 10, at 8 p.m.: Franz Welser-Most conducts Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra," Messiaen's "Couleurs de la Cite Celeste" and Verdi's "Stabat Mater" and Te Deum, with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and pianist Joela Jones.

MILWAUKEE http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/milwaukee-symphony-2015-16-schedule-b99450843z1-294444381.html
include Vaughan Williams and Wm Schuman 6th Symphonies, Corigliano 'Red Violin' chaconne

[listener]

VANCOUVER, B.C.
http://issuu.com/vancouversymphony/docs/vsocalendar1516
not much exciting in the regular series, saving on score rentals and putting the new stuff into niche series.   Mahler Symphony 6, Bartok vn cto 2, Zemlinskly's 'Mermaid', Silvestrov 'The Messenger' might make me buy tickets.  Warhorses might be audition pieces for a future successor conductor.
Have to hunt for the info on the 'Romantics' fest next April that will include the Mahler version of Beethoven's 9^th (Choral) and a 'Ring Without Words'. and Berio's orchestration of the Brahms Clarinet Sonata no.1
http://issuu.com/vancouversymphony/docs/vsobrochure1516

[jochanaan]

It's far from clear that the best thing the world's orchestras should do isn't to see the environment we're in rather more clearly, quit what they're doing, and disband.

There is virtually nothing left to be said interpretively and virtually no music to write with any new aesthetic content; the whole historical period is artistically bankrupt and thoroughly antithetical to any further worthwhile performance or composition.

Needless to say.

Yes, it is far from clear. To speak clearly, every time we think that "our" music is dying, it somehow comes to life again.  Reports of its demise are invariably premature and exaggerated.

[Sean]

jochanaan

Yes, it is far from clear. To speak clearly, every time we think that "our" music is dying, it somehow comes to life again.  Reports of its demise are invariably premature and exaggerated.

Not this time pal. The evidence is absolutely overwhelming, as indicated below. No serious listener can disagree. Best, Sean

[North Star]

jochanaan

Not this time pal. The evidence is absolutely overwhelming, as indicated below. No serious listener can disagree. Best, Sean

I suppose you're right. After all, how could a sane listener be a serious one while reading this. 

[Sean]

Sane or serious, this is the end of the age of art.

[Karl Henning]

He really doesn't get how amusing those fatuous pronouncements are.

[Sean]

It's not a prediction, it's just an observable fact right now...

[EigenUser]

Sane or serious, this is the end of the age of art.

Well, it was fun while it lasted...

Come on, guys. We better go and tell all of the painters, sculptors, composers, dancers, architects, musicians, and actors that they can stop wasting their time -- that there is nothing left for them to do. I'm sure that they will appreciate the heads-up.

[Mirror Image]

It's not a prediction, it's just an observable fact right now...

Like you would know.

[Brian]

Even the San Antonio Symphony's season is far more interesting than the one in Dallas!

January 22/23, 2016
Jeffrey Mumford - Cello Concerto (world premiere) (African-American composer who studied with Elliott Carter)
Rest of program to be announced.

February 5/6, 2016
W. Schuman - American Triptych
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
Piazzolla - Aconcagua Concerto
Bernstein - On the Waterfront
Marquez - Danzon No. 2

Plus a program with two pieces by Duke Ellington, and a complete Ravel Daphnis paired with a new work involving a gamelan ensemble.

[Todd]

Carlos Kalmar has done it again with the Oregon Symphony.  In addition to much standard fare, the below comparative or actual rarities will be performed next season:

Dukas: La Pèri (complete ballet)
Corigliano: Troubadours
Rodrigo: Fantasía para un gentilhombre
Cherubini: Ali Baba Overture
MacMillan: Veni, veni, Emmanuel
Ginastera: Harp Concerto
Schiff: Infernal (after Stravinsky's Firebird Suite)
Carpenter: Sea Drift
Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Gubaidulina: Offertorium: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Honegger: Rugby
Schoenfield: Four Parables for Piano and Orchestra
Bloch: Violin Concerto
Copland: Quiet City
Adès: Violin Concerto,  "Concentric Paths"
Nielsen: Helios Overture
Schumann: Genoveva Overture
Hindemith: Mathis der Maler


On top of that, Stanisław Skrowaczewski will be guest conducting Lutolslawski's Concerto for Orchestra (along with Mozart's 27th PC and the Brahms 3).  Lang Lang will play Grieg's PC, and as a corrective, Benjamin Grosvenor will play Chopin's First (in a concert with Dvorak's Sixth!).  And the season closer is Mahler 3. 

My concert-going budget was busted with June's Les Troyens in San Francisco.  I may have to cut back on CD purchases to finance a couple concert tickets. 

[Brian]

On top of that, Stanisław Skrowaczewski will be guest conducting Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra (along with Mozart's 27th PC and the Brahms 3).

Just looked that up. Weekend before Thanksgiving. May well buy plane tickets to see that, since I've never been to Portland and wanted to see what the fuss is about, anyway.

[Todd]

May well buy plane tickets to see that, since I've never been to Portland and wanted to see what the fuss is about, anyway.

People fuss about Portland?

[Brian]

By the way, Mahler's Third is now a very popular season-ender. It ended the year in Warsaw in 2011, and I was there; it ended the year in San Antonio in 2014, and I was there; it ends the year in Dallas in 2015, and I'll be there.

People fuss about Portland?

I've had both friends and parents coming back telling me to go ASAP. Oregon Symphony + Powell's Books + dinner at Pok Pok sounds like a good weekend to me.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Carlos Kalmar has done it again with the Oregon Symphony.  In addition to much standard fare, the below comparative or actual rarities will be performed next season:

[great list snipped]

He takes the same approach at the Grant Park Festival here, with excellent results. It's my summer orchestral music lifeline now that Ravinia has gotten so boringly standard in its programming.

[Todd]

I've had both friends and parents coming back telling me to go ASAP. Oregon Symphony + Powell's Books + dinner at Pok Pok sounds like a good weekend to me.

Powell's was great - before Amazon came along.  They still have a huge selection, of course - it's a multi-story city block of books, after all - but I haven't set foot in the main store for probably a decade.

Pok Pok is in NY, and soon LA.  Consider Ned Ludd or Andina instead.  Also, if you're a beer guy, there's more brew pubs than you could visit in a few weeks.  Oh, and strip clubs.  Pornland's got lots and lots and lots of strip clubs.  Stripping is protected speech under the Oregon Constitution.

[TheGSMoeller]

He takes the same approach at the Grant Park Festival here, with excellent results. It's my summer orchestral music lifeline now that Ravinia has gotten so boringly standard in its programming.

Another good season for Grant Park for sure! I'll be there for Bruckner 6th, however it's scheduled as one of their few inside performances. But the shows are not too far apart so I'll stick around for a Millinium Park show.

[MishaK]

He takes the same approach at the Grant Park Festival here, with excellent results. It's my summer orchestral music lifeline now that Ravinia has gotten so boringly standard in its programming.

Amen!

Ravinia has not only gotten boringly standard, they are squeezing the CSO out as the central act, with more and more folk and other popular concerts that don't really need a tax exempt non profit venue. Then there is the issue that Conlon just isn't the most inspiring orchestral conductor, hasn't really had a good rapport with the orchestra in ages, hasn't done anything to prevent the erosion of the CSO's position within Ravnina programming, etc. The one highlight have been Dohnanyi's fairly regular visits in recent Ravinia seasons. Not surprisingly, the CSO has been exploring other venues with now another set of concerts planned in the Morton Arboretum, repeating last season's experiment.

Another good season for Grant Park for sure! I'll be there for Bruckner 6th, however it's scheduled as one of their few inside performances. But the shows are not too far apart so I'll stick around for a Millinium Park show.

I'll definitely be there for B6 as well.

[TheGSMoeller]

Amen!

Ravinia has not only gotten boringly standard, they are squeezing the CSO out as the central act, with more and more folk and other popular concerts that don't really need a tax exempt non profit venue. Then there is the issue that Conlon just isn't the most inspiring orchestral conductor, hasn't really had a good rapport with the orchestra in ages, hasn't done anything to prevent the erosion of the CSO's position within Ravnina programming, etc. The one highlight have been Dohnanyi's fairly regular visits in recent Ravinia seasons. Not surprisingly, the CSO has been exploring other venues with now another set of concerts planned in the Morton Arboretum, repeating last season's experiment.

I'll definitely be there for B6 as well.

Very cool, Misha!
I haven't seen the GPO in a few years, used to go every year since my brother joined them but having a child has decreased my trips up north. I figured Bruckner 6 is a good one to return for.