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The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
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(Orlando, FL – February 28, 2007) - The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra proudly announces the 2007-2008 season of its acclaimed flagship series, Phil at Carr. This series highlights the best of classical and pops repertoire featuring the fabulous Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra with a host of acclaimed guest artists, along with the conducting of Music Director Christopher Wilkins and Principal Pops and Resident Conductor Andrew Lane. All concerts are held at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, 401 W. Livingston Street, Orlando.
The Phil at Carr Series is comprised of ten concerts and features five matinee performances, offering numerous entertainment options to appeal to a variety of musical tastes and busy schedules. Included in this season’s offerings are programs featuring popular artists Joshua Bell, Marvin Hamlisch, Five By Design, Cherish the Ladies and Sylvia McNair. Additionally, the Philharmonic collaborates with the Orlando Museum of Art and its touring exhibition, “American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell” with a program titled Rockwell Rhapsody. This program features an original composition by popular Orlando composer Stella Sung, Rockwell Reflections, a musical tribute to the American life works of Norman Rockwell. The Philharmonic also collaborates with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, Dr. John V. Sinclair, Artistic Director and Conductor, to present Guiseppe Verdi’s powerful work, Requiem.
To enhance the enjoyment and understanding of each program, a pre-concert “Conversation” is held one hour before the performance, backstage at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre. These popular conversations are free to all ticket-holders.
Subscription seating is available in a variety of package options. Subscribers can choose from a ten-concert, five-concert pops, five-concert classics, five-concert matinee, or a three, four, five or six-concert “Create Your Own” subscription. Subscribers receive numerous benefits, including being among the first to choose their seats, a significant savings over single ticket prices, invitations to exclusive events, and a subscription to the Philharmonic’s newsletter, Inside the Orlando Philharmonic. Season subscription packages are presently on sale, and can be purchased through the Orlando Philharmonic’s Box Office at 407-770-0071, or on line at the Philharmonic’s website, www.orlandophil.org. Single tickets go on sale on Monday, August 27, 2007 at price levels of $15 - $62.
To request a season brochure and order form, phone the Philharmonic at 407-770-0071, or e-mail Diane Bishop, Box Office Manager, at dbishop@orlandophil.org.
The 2007-2008 Phil at Carr Series is as follows:
Phil at Carr 1: Amadeus meets Sheherazade
Saturday, September 29, 2007 8:30 PM
Christopher Wilkins, Conductor; Ani and Ida Kavafian, Violins
Concert Sponsored by The Friends of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
W. A. Mozart: Overture to the Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384
W. A. Mozart: Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola, K. 364, E-flat major
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, op. 35
The great Kavafian sisters make an elegant pair, as they interweave their intricate lines in one of Mozart’s most beautiful works. Our overture is in the “extravagant Eastern style,” as Mozart described the Janissary music of the Turkish military bands, displaying clashing cymbals, wailing piccolos, and drums beaten with switches. Rimsky-Korsakov augmented these effects – and the size of the orchestra considerably - with dazzling results in his Arabian Nights inspired symphonic suite, Sheherazade.
Phil at Carr II: Marvin Hamlisch: A Night at The Movies
Saturday, October 20, 2007 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
“Seldom have laughter and good music been so memorably combined in a concert setting;” “A fantastic evening;” and “A blockbuster evening of laughs and top-notch music” are just some of the accolades written about the performance style of Marvin Hamlisch, the preeminent pops artist of our time. Hamlisch leads the Philharmonic in a program of hits from the movies, including music from Gigi, My Fair Lady, The Way We Were and Out of Africa.
Phil at Carr III: Symphonic Sorcery
Saturday, November 3, 2007 8:00 PM
Christopher Wilkins, Conductor
Conrad Tao, Piano
Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 22, G minor
Thirteen year-old Conrad Tao, already a nationally renowned artist, performs Saint-Saëns’s dramatic and playful piano concerto; but Conrad might just as easily have appeared as a violinist or composer, so sweeping is his talent. Dukas’s magical spells are almost as potent as Walt Disney’s, as you may recall from the setting of this music in the movie Fantasia. And for our last trick… we bring to life young Hector Berlioz’s first orchestral masterpiece, Symphonie fantastique, the symphony that launched the Romantic century.
Phil at Carr IV: Home for the Holidays
Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Andrew Lane, Conductor
The Holiday Singers
Sponsored by Merrill Lynch
Artists’ Sponsors: AT & T Real Yellow Pages® & Orlando Sentinel Communications
Let the Orlando Philharmonic warm your heart with beautiful music of the holiday season. This festive concert will feature the exceptional voices of the Holiday Singers and will
certainly be a special holiday treat for the entire family.
Phil at Carr V: Radio Days
Saturday, January 19, 2008 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Andrew Lane, Conductor
Five By Design, Vocals
Radio, music, and World War II were deeply interwoven into the fabric of America’s tapestry from 1941-45. The console radio was the sole source of immediate information while big band remotes turned living rooms into make-believe ballrooms. The incomparable Five By Design honors America’s greatest generation in this musical retrospective from the golden age of radio, where they recreate a poignant time capsule of American life during the war years.
Phil at Carr VI: Celtic Tapestry
Saturday, February 23, 2008 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Andrew Lane, Conductor
Cherish the Ladies
When describing Cherish the Ladies, the critics say it best: “It is simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn’t enjoy what they do,” The Boston Globe; “An astonishing array of virtuosity,” The Washington Post; “Expands the annals of Irish music in America …the music is passionate, tender and rambunctious,” The New York Times. And for 20 years, Cherish the Ladies have proven themselves worthy of these accolades and more, and have become one of the most engaging ensembles in the history of Irish music.
Phil at Carr VII: Rockwell Rhapsody
Saturday, March 1, 2008 8:00 PM
Christopher Wilkins, Conductor; Terrence Wilson, Piano
In collaboration with the Orlando Museum of Art and the touring exhibition:
“American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell”
Sponsored by the University of Central Florida
Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man and Billy the Kid
Charles Ives: Three Places in New England
Stella Sung: Rockwell Reflections
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Composer Stella Sung – immensely popular with Orlando audiences - has written a new work for the Philharmonic, to be performed with live projections of Norman Rockwell’s paintings. Rockwell’s subject was American life: families and neighborhoods; life’s lessons and aging; social justice and racial tolerance. His contemporaries Copland and Gershwin shared many of his artistic interests, especially a lifelong desire to speak with a distinctly American voice to everyday citizens. Terrence Wilson delivers the Rhapsody that changed American music forever.
Phil at Carr VIII: Joshua Bell
Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:00 PM
Christopher Wilkins, Conductor
Joshua Bell, Violin
George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, op. 64, E minor
Manuel Ponce: Estrellita
John Corigliano: “Pope’s Concert” from The Red Violin
Joshua Bell’s lyrical instincts and technical gifts have inspired a generation, and his talents are on full display in Mendelssohn’s romantic and brilliant violin concerto. His mesmerizing
performance on the soundtrack to The Red Violin has led to a series of solo works derived from that Academy Award winning film score, all written for him by John Corigliano. The Orlando
Philharmonic warms up the evening with blazing virtuosity (Bartók), and some rollicking fiddle music of our own (Enescu).
Phil at Carr IX: Come to the Cabaret
Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Andrew Lane, Conductor
Sylvia McNair, Soprano
Two-time Grammy Award winning singer Sylvia McNair takes the stage for a program of all-time favorites from musical theater and the Great American Songbook, featuring the music of Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen and Irving Berlin Audiences will enjoy this sentimental look back at
these beloved and timeless classics.
Phil at Carr X: Verdi Requiem
Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:00 PM
In collaboration with The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park
Christopher Wilkins, Conductor
Bach Festival Choir, Dr. John V. Sinclair, Artistic Director and Conductor
Sponsored by MSCW
Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem
In an historic first, the Orlando Philharmonic and the Bach Festival Choir combine forces in Verdi’s powerful and moving Requiem, a work Hans von Bülow described as “opera in church vestments.” The music begins in hushed, prayerful tones, and closes with an impassioned plea for salvation. In its most famous “scene,” trumpets surround the audience as if on Judgment Day, in what Wikipedia describes as “some of the loudest unamplified music ever written.” It is a representation to rival Michelangelo’s.
Join the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in a celebration of fabulous music, great composers, and talented artists at the 2007-2008 Phil at Carr Series. We’re YOUR Symphony Orchestra!
For further information, phone the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra at 407-770-0071, or visit our website at www.orlandophil.org.
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