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Contact:
Public Relations Director
The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
Phone: 407/896-6700 x 223
Fax: 407/896-5512
gmiller@orlandophil.org
www.orlandophil.org |
Orlando,
FL – February 15, 2005 - The Orlando
Philharmonic Orchestra invites you to experience the
majesty of Gustav Mahler at the Phil at Carr Series
Concert, A Mahler Experience,
held on Saturday, March 12, 8:00 P M
at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, 401 W. Livingston
Street, Orlando. This concert is presented in a unique
format - the program focuses on just one of his masterpieces
- Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor
- performed without intermission. A Mahler Experience
is sponsored by Embassy Suites Hotel Orlando-Downtown.
To add to the
concert experience, Maestro Hal France presents a pre-concert
conversation on stage, beginning at 7:00 PM. In his
conversation, Maestro France presents an insightful
look at the life of this great composer and the nuances
of this spectacular work. If you have never attended
a pre-concert conversation before, this is a great opportunity
to experience Maestro France's passion and excitement
for great composers and the great classics. France's
engaging speaking style and overwhelming knowledge of
music will make for an enjoyable, entertaining, and
educational concert experience .
Hal France
is in his fifth year as Music Director of the Orlando
Philharmonic while he completes his tenth and final
season as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor
of Opera Omaha. He is sought after as a guest conductor
for opera and symphony and throughout the United States
and abroad, and as a speaker and advocate for the arts.
France has served as Music Director of the Mobile Opera
and Lake George Opera Festival and as Music Director
of Opera Omaha before assuming the position of Artistic
Director. He has served on the music staffs of the Glyndebourne
Festival, Aspen Festival and the Netherlands Opera.
He has received degrees from Northwestern University
and the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory
of Music and a fellowship from the Juilliard Opera Center.
During recent years, he has received an honorary
doctorate from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and
the rank of Admiral in the Nebraska Navy from the Governor.
Gustav Mahler
(1860 - 1911) was considered the ultimate big thinker
of late Romantic period music. In his own lifetime,
he was generally regarded as a conductor who composed
on the side. His works are enormous, both in
size and in force. His belief in the supremacy of feelings
over reason resulted in a view of his music as "hyper-emotional"
and “extreme” by many. Although it is true that
he restlessly searched for ways of extending symphonic
expression, he was also an ardent craftsman, a trait
that is shown both in his meticulous working methods
and careful planning of works along with his studies
of previous composers.
His Symphony
No. 5 , known as the “Giant,” is a massive work,
not only in sound and number of musicians, but in emotion.
It begins with a somber funeral dirge in the dark and
brooding key of C# Minor. As the piece progresses, it
dwells on the familiar struggles, passions, and then
victory of the human experience. The emotions are brought
to a climactic and glorious finale as the piece concludes
in the triumphant key of D Major.
Tickets for
A Mahler Experience are presently on sale
for $12, $25, $35, $45 and $55. (Students with valid
ID receive half price tickets in select areas.) Tickets
can be purchased by phoning the Orlando Philharmonic
at 407/896-6700 , on the Philharmonic's
website at www.orlandophil.org
, through Ticketmaster at 407/839-3900 or at the
door the evening of the performance.
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