Contact:
Carl Herko
Vice President, Media & Public Relations
503-416-6347
cherko@orsymphony.org
February 8, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OREGON SYMPHONY’S 2009/10 SEASON INCLUDES
21 PREMIERES FOR THE ORCHESTRA
(PORTLAND, Ore.) – The Oregon Symphony’s 2009/10 concert season will include the premiere performances by the orchestra of 21 works never before performed in its 114-year history. Taken together, the premieres represent about a third of all the music the Oregon Symphony will perform in its major concerts throughout the year.
An important highlight of the season will be the West Coast premiere, on Sept. 26, of Chris Thile’s Mandolin Concerto, a new composition co-commissioned by the Oregon Symphony and the Colorado Symphony. (The Colorado Symphony will present its world premiere performance the week before its West Coast premiere in Portland.) Music Director Carlos Kalmar will lead the orchestra in the Sept. 26 performance.
The season’s 21 premiere performances are spread among 13 of the season’s concerts on its Classical subscription series, its May 2010 Beethoven Festival and its wide array of Special concerts.
They are:
- Chris Thile, Mandolin Concerto (West Coast premiere, Sept. 26 Special concert, a co-commission of the Oregon Symphony and the Colorado Symphony, with Chris Thile, mandolin)
- Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer/Zakir Hussain, Triple Concerto (Sept. 26 Special concert, with the three composers performing)
- Leonard Bernstein, Symphony No. 2, “Age of Anxiety” (Oct. 17-19, with Jon Kimura Parker, piano)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante (Nov. 21-23)
- Henri Dutilleux, Symphony No. 2 (Nov. 21-23)
- Alberto Ginastera, Glosses on Themes of Pablo Casals (Jan. 9-11)
- Bohuslav Martinu, Thunderbolt P-47 (Jan. 23-25)
- Ottorino Respighi, La Boutique fantasque, ballet after Rossini (Jan. 23-25)
- Thomas Ades, Overture, Waltz & Finale from Powder Her Face (Jan. 30-31)
- Gustav Holst, Egdon Heath (Jan. 30-31)
- Anton Webern, Passacaglia (Feb. 20-21)
- Frederick Delius, Iremelin Prelude (Mar. 14)*
- Ralph Vaughan Williams, Symphony No. 6 (Mar. 14)*
- Richard Strauss, Incidental Music to Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Mar. 14)*
- Malcolm Forsyth, Jubilee Overture (Apr. 10-12)
- Samuel Barber, Music for a Scene From Shelley (May 8-10)
- Aaron Jay Kernis, Newly Drawn Sky (May 8-10)
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonore Overture No. 1 (Beethoven Festival, May 16)
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonore Overture No. 2 (Beethoven Festival, May 17)
- Magnus Lindberg, Purcell Variation (May 22-24)
- Benjamin Britten, Violin Concerto (May 22-24, with Elina Vahala, violin)
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CONTACT:
Carl Herko
Vice President, Media & Public Relations
(503) 416-6347
cherko@orsymphony.org