The 2014-2015 Season
Nordic Sounds
, Sunday, September 21, 2014, 7:30p.m., Pick-Staiger Hall in Evanston.
Conductor and Artistic Director Scott Speck is joined by Danish violinist Christina Åstrand.
Overture to Hamlet, the Midwest premiere of Niels Gade, (Arvo Pärt’s most whimsical work) If Bach Had Been a
Beekeeper, and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 1. VenWell is the soloist sponsor.
Power of Touch,
Sunday, November 16, 2014, 3:00p.m., Nichols Hall in Evanston.
Conductor Joel Smirnoff and soprano Asako Tamura.
Overture to La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder), Samuel Barber’s work Knoxville: Summer of 1915, select arias by Mozart,
and Haydn’s symphony, “The Drumroll.”
Taste the Music
, Sunday, February 15, 2015, 3:00p.m., Nichols Hall in Evanston.
David Perry leads the orchestra with Johann Strauss’s sparkling Champagne Polka, Bohuslav Martinu’s one act comedic
ballet La revue de cuisine, Darius Milhaud’s Le boeuf sur le toit (The Ox on the Roof), and Mozart’s delicious Sinfonia
Concertante for violin and viola. Chicago Philharmonic concertmaster David Perry and Lyric Opera’s Principal Violist
Carol Cook as soloists.
Scents of Beauty,
Sunday, April 19, 2015, 7:00p.m., Pick-Staiger Hall in Evanston.
Scott Speck returns to the podium and the concert opens with Debussy’s fragrant Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,
(with pianist Jorge Federico Osorio) Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Manuel de Falla, Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the
Left Hand, and Claude Debussy’s wildly impressionistic picture of the sea, La mer, transporting the audience with scents,
colors and evocative orchestrations.
A Vision in Sound
, on Sunday, June 7, 2015, 7:00p.m. at Pick-Staiger Hall in Evanston.
Scott Speck conducting. Contemporary American composer Jennifer Higdon pondered the loss of her dear brother,
Andrew Blue Higdon, by dedicating a marvelous blue cathedral to his memory. American composer Kenji Bunch was
inspired by Roy Lichtenstein’s cartoonish pop art to create his funny, jazzy and inspiring Symphony No. 1. The season
closes with the ultimate symphonic work inspired by visual art: Pictures at an Exhibition. Russian composer Modest
Mussorgsky and master orchestrator Maurice Ravel take us on a promenade through a gallery of fascinating paintings
and designs, from the ruins of an old castle to the vast glory of The Great Gate of Kiev.
CHICAGO PHILHARMONIC
ANNOUNCES ITS
25TH ANNIVERSARY
SEASON
The Chicago Philharmonic announces its 25th anniversary season
Celebrating the Senses: Five Senses, Five Thrilling Concerts.
The 2014-2015 season runs from September 21, 2014 through June 7, 2015
.
Artistic Director Scott Speck said of the new season,
“A great concert
is a multi-sensory experience. For the coming season, we have crafted
five concerts that appeal to many senses at once.”
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