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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 – September 14, 2007) - The Orlando Philharmonic proudly begins a new season of its acclaimed Focus Series on Monday, October 8 at 7:00 PM with a program that takes the audience on a historical journey, titled The Mozart Family Grand Tour: 1763 - 1766. The concert takes place in the Margeson Theater in the Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins Street, Orlando.
Maestro Christopher Wilkins leads this program of music and discourse as we follow the young Mozart clan to England and to the Palace of Versailles. Here we find a seven-year-old Mozart and his eleven-year-old sister, Nanerl, performing for appreciative aristocrats who showered them with gifts and attention. Works performed include Mozart’s Symphony in F, K. 19a and Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat - K. 271 “Jeunehomme.” Also on the program is a work of Mozart’s father, Leopold, titled Sleigh Ride, J. C. Bach’s Sinfonia for double orchestra in E-flat, op. 18 No. 1 and Rameau’s Les Indes galantes. Throughout the program, Maestro Wilkins shares his knowledge of this interesting period in music history.
Guest pianist Laurent Boukobza joins the program to perform the challenging piano concerto. Boukobza is Professor of Piano and Chair of the Piano Studies at the University of Central Florida. He was the recipient of the First Prize of Piano and Chamber Music from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris and is regularly invited to prestigious festivals including Vichy, Fontevrault, Conques, Evian, Les Arcs, Les Ecrins (France) and Salzburg (Austria).
Join the Orlando Philharmonic for the fabulous programs of the Focus Series, which highlight the best of the chamber orchestra repertoire in an interesting "theater-in-the-round" setting.
Subscriptions and single tickets are presently on sale, and can be purchased by phone at 407-770-0071, or on line at www.orlandophil.org. Subscriptions to this four-concert series are $128 for Level 1 seating and $84 for Level 2 seating. Single tickets are $37 for Level 1 seating and $27 for Level 2 seating.
The Orlando Philharmonic’s Focus Series continues with Splendors of the Baroque on December 10, 2007, Copland and the Spirit of the American Song on March 10, 2008 and Petite Sweets on April 14, 2008. For further information, phone 407-770-0071 or visit www.orlandophil.org.
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