North Carolina Symphony Launches 80th Anniversary Season with?Concerts in Raleigh and Southern Pines, Sept. 13-15
Grant Llewellyn Conducts Rachmaninoff, Gershwin and More
Sensational Pianist Gabriela Montero Featured in ?Rachmaninoff?s Rhapsody?
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Gabriela Montero by Colin Bell
RALEIGH, N.C.?North Carolina Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn launches the orchestra?s 2012/13 classical season with a thrilling concert program featuring a display of piano virtuosity from renowned guest soloist Gabriela Montero.
The performances, titled ?Rachmaninoff?s Rhapsody,? take place on Thursday, Sept. 13 in Lee Auditorium in Southern Pines and on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 14-15 in downtown Raleigh?s Meymandi Concert Hall at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. All three concerts begin at 8:00 p.m.
Pianist Gabriela Montero, along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and clarinetist Anthony McGill, performed on the steps of the Capitol for President Barack Obama?s inauguration in 2009. She has since won a quickly expanding audience and devoted following around the world.
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?She?s an extraordinary keyboard artist,? says Llewellyn. ?She?s made a name for herself with her amazing improvised encores, which we hope to see her do here. She?ll perform Rachmaninoff?s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, which everyone will love, but obviously her second work, Gershwin?s Variations on ?I Got Rhythm,? is right down her street and will get the season off to a rousing start.?
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The program also includes an early work by Haydn, his Symphony No. 6, ?Le Matin,? or ?The Morning.? The Symphony?s classical season will close in May with Haydn?s Symphony No. 6, ?Le Soir? (?The Evening?), and concertgoers hear Symphony No. 7, ?Le Midi? (?Noon?) in November.
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?This is a particular project of mine,? Llewellyn says. ?These early Haydn symphonies are the perfect forerunners of the symphony as we have come to know it. They are extended works?quite long and substantial?and span the bridge between the Baroque concerto grosso, which highlight individual soloists, and the fully fledged symphonies of later Haydn, and then Mozart and Beethoven. In addition, ?Le Matin,? ?Le Midi? and ?Le Soir,? starting from the morning, then going to the day and evening, have a wonderful sort of arch.?
The program concludes with Ravel?s incredible orchestral tableau, Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chlo?. Llewellyn calls it ?perhaps one of the greatest ballets that orchestral musicians ever get to play.?
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In addition to a stellar performance, North Carolina Symphony concertgoers can enjoy pre-concert talks and ?Meet the Artists,? which features interactive conversations with guest artists and select orchestra members, before many Symphony events. For ?Rachmaninoff?s Rhapsody,? Josiah Stevenson will host ?Meet the Artists? in the Pinecrest High School band room in Southern Pines, Thursday, Sept. 13, beginning at 7:00 p.m. WUNC?s Catharine Brand will host ?Meet the Artists? in Meymandi Concert Hall?s Swalin Lobby in Raleigh, Friday, Sept. 14, at 6:30 p.m. NCSU professor Randolph Foy will present a pre-concert talk in the Swalin Lobby, Saturday, Sept. 15, at 7:00 p.m.
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Regular tickets to the Raleigh Classical Series performance of ?Rachmaninoff?s Rhapsody,? Friday and Saturday, Sept. 14-15, range from $18 to $70, with $40 tickets for seniors. Regular tickets to the Southern Pines Series performance on Thursday, Sept. 13 range from $18 to $60. Students can receive $15 tickets in both venues.
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To purchase tickets, visit the North Carolina Symphony website at www.ncsymphony.org or call the Symphony Box Office at 919.733.2750 or toll free 877.627.6724.
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Meymandi Concert Hall is located in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E. South St., in Raleigh. Lee Auditorium is located at Pinecrest High School, 100 Pinecrest School Road, in Southern Pines.
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About the North Carolina Symphony
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Founded in 1932 and subsequently made an entity of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, the North Carolina Symphony employs 67 professional musicians under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn and Resident Conductor William Henry Curry. Every year, this orchestra performs over 175 concerts in more than 50 North Carolina counties, with some 60 of those concerts offered in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill metropolitan area.
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The Symphony boasts two spectacular home venues: Meymandi Concert Hall at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh and Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C. The Symphony also travels 12,000 miles each year to present concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington; individual concerts in communities across the state; and one of the most extensive education programs of any U.S. orchestra.
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Concert/Event Listings:
North Carolina Symphony
Rachmaninoff?s Rhapsody
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Grant Llewellyn, Music Director
Gabriela Montero, piano
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September 13, 2012, 8pm
Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, Southern Pines
September 14-15, 2012, 8pm
Meymandi Concert Hall, Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh
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Program Listing:
North Carolina Symphony
Rachmaninoff?s Rhapsody
Grant Llewellyn, Music Director
September 13-15, 2012
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Symphony No. 6 in D Major, ?Le Matin?
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
I. Adagio ? Allegro
II. Adagio ? Andante ? Adagio
III. Menuet
IV. Finale: Allegro
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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
????? Gabriela Montero, piano
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Variations on ?I Got Rhythm? for Piano and Orchestra
George Gershwin/arr. Schoenfeld (1898-1937)
????? Gabriela Montero, piano
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Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chlo?
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
I. Lever du jour
II. Pantomime
III. Danse g?n?rale
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