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10:00 am
DPO 2015-2016 Retrospective
Brahms Festival Part II
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Scheherazade
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra | Masterworks Series
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8:00 pm Friday, September 30, 2016
8:00 pm Saturday, October 1, 2016
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MOZART Symphony No. 1
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
NEAL GITTLEMAN conductor
ANASTASIA RIZIKOV piano
DAYTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Mozart's Symphony No. 1, written by a budding master of a mere eight years, establishes one of the central themes of the Excite Season. Throughout the year, we will constantly return to Mozart's music to propel us along in our appreciation of many styles and genres.
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini was Sergei Rachmaninoff’s last composition for piano and orchestra and is one of his best his best-known works. Here, the DPO welcomes Anastasia Rizikov to the keyboard. Since she was twelve, Rizikov has been competing as an adult on the international competitive circuit, taking first place among competitors twice her age! Talk about prodigies.
The performance continues with Scheherazade... adventure made music! Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1888 suite for orchestra, instantly transports the audience to a warm Arabian evening in which the captive Scheherazade regales the powerful Sultan with amazing tales, night after night. The famous suite recounts stories from the collection of 1,001 Arabian Nights. Rapturous.
The Music of Billy Joel Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra | Rockin' Orchestra Series
SCHUSTER CENTER 8:00 pm Saturday, October 8, 2016
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MICHAEL CAVANAUGH vocals
NEAL GITTLEMAN conductor
DAYTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
For the Excite Season’s opening Rockin’ Orchestra event, Neal Gittleman and the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra share the stage with Michael Cavanaugh, a strong new voice representing and performing the American Rock & Roll Songbook.
Handselected by Billy Joel, Michael Cavanaugh was invited to move to New York City and help shape Movin’ Out, the Broadway musical. From 2002 to 2005, Michael Cavanaugh played the pianist-singer in the main role, singing nonstop during the show, which has no dialogue other than the music.
Cavanaugh was nominated for both a Grammy and a Tony award for this role. Since the end of his Broadway run, he has performed with symphony orchestras worldwide.
Come and enjoy these absolute rock classics . . . order your tickets now for a memorable evening with the DPO and the new Piano Man.
Join us at the Schuster Center during the height of autumn to celebrate the world of nature: whether it be nature as we see it—plants and animals, water and land—or nature as forces that we may or may not see—the building blocks of the cosmos. Opening the program, the DPO and concertmaster Jessica Hung perform one of the best-known compositions of the baroque master, Antonio Vivaldi. The Four Seasons is the collective name given to four separate violin concertos based on the seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. When he published The Four Seasons, Vivaldi included four sonnets (possibly written by the composer himself) to evoke the images captured by his music.
In Dumfries, Scotland, an architectural theorist, Charles Jencks, and his late wife, Maggie Keswick, an expert on Chinese gardens, designed what came to be called the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. This utterly amazing place inspired composer Michael Gandolfi to create music interpreting the many experiences of the sculptural garden. It's the perfect companion to Vivaldi's signature concerto. (Gandolfi's piece will be explored in detail on the Sunday, October 16 Classical Connections program called Gandolfi's Cosmic Garden).
SCHUSTER CENTER
3:00 pm Sunday, October 16, 2016
Graeter's Ice Cream Social and Q&A follows concert
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GALILEI-RESPIGHI "Gagliarda" from Ancient Airs and Dances
GANDOLFI Selections from Music from The Garden of Cosmic Speculation: The Zeroroom, Soliton Waves, The Snail and the Poetics of Going Slow, The Universe Cascade, The Garden of the Senses Suite, Fractal Terrace, The Nonsense
The unique Classical Connections concert format features musical examples and discussion by DPO Artistic Director Neal Gittleman, followed by a performance of the entire composition.
The Dayton Philharmonic will begin the program with “Gagliarda,” which is part of the larger work Ancient Airs and Dances by Ottorino Resphigi. Resphigi based it on Renaissance lute music by Vincenzo Galilei, the father of Galileo!
In Scotland, an architectural theorist, Charles Jencks, and his wife, Maggie Keswick, an expert on Chinese gardens, designed what came to be called the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. The thirty-acre site consists of forty major areas of landscapes, gardens, bridges, sculptures, and architecture.
As a composer and music educator, Michael Gandolfi's natural curiosity leads him to create “points of contact” between music and other fields, including science, film, and theater. His wide-ranging interests led him to discover the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. This home of science as garden and vice versa inspired Gandolfi’s 2009 work The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. With the garden and its theories as his muse, Gandolfi has created music that deftly conjures the garden landscapes and the concepts of natural and physical science that they represent.
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WORLD PREMIERE
DRACULA: BLOODLINES in production
All new!
The dancers have returned and are rehearsing, costumes are being created, music has been written, vocalists have been retained, and sets are being built as we move toward October 20-23 when the Victoria Theatre becomes the site of the most amazing artistic interpretation of Dracula ever performed.
This stunning World Premiere combines the full power of the Dayton Ballet, Dayton Opera and Dayton Philharmonic.
Karen Russo Burke
choreographer
Neal Gittleman
conductor
Austin K. Jaquith
composer
Ray Zupp
costume & set designer
DATES & TIMES
7:30 pm, Thursday, October 20
8:00 pm, Friday, October 21
8:00 pm, Saturday, October 22
3:00 pm, Sunday, October 23
