Hamburg Symphony Orchestra Plays Brahms
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Brahms is a most fitting subject for the Symphony since both share the same birthplace Hamburg. Founded in 1957, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra has the privilege of being the only orchestra with its home in Hamburg Music Hall. The Symphony performs some 20 operas and ballets each season at home and has gained an international reputation on numerous tours. It is highly recognized and greatly respected as a component of Europe¹s cultural life.
Recordings with the Symphony have appeared on Deutsche Grammophon and other German labels. The Symphony has worked with many prestigious conductors over its years and some of the world's finest soloists, including Placido Domingo and Grace Bumbry. Players are known for their spirit and animation during performances.
Boreyko, a St. Petersburg's native, was named as principal conductor in the 2004-2005 season, creating a unique and exciting artistic collaboration.
He has conducted many prestigious orchestras throughout the world Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Vienna Radio Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano and Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice, among others. Numerous CDs with noted soloists as well as television and radio recordings demonstrate Boreyko¹s artistic versatility. It has been said that Boreyko inspires musicians "to form tender phrases and powerful climaxes."
McDuffie is a Grammy-nominated artist whose acclaimed recordings for Telarc include the violin concertos of Mendelssohn, Bruch, Adams, Glass, Barber and Rozsa, as well as Viennese favorites. He plays a 1735 Guarneri del Gesu violin, known as the "Ladenburg." McDuffie has been appointed Distinguished University Professor of Music at Mercer University in his hometown of Macon, Ga. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.
Tickets for the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra are $50, $40 and $30, available by calling the Carlsen Center box office, 913-469-4445, or online at www.jccc.edu/CarlsenCenter. Paul Laird, musicologist at the University of Kansas, and William Everett, musicologist at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, will present the pre-performance Artist Insights as well as a seminar on Brahms.
Brahms and the Romantic Imagination
The Carlsen Center ArtsEducation program presents Brahms and the Romantic Imagination, a seminar on the music of Brahms, a native of Hamburg, from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, in the Recital Hall of the Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College. The seminar, geared to people interested in Romantic composers, will examine Brahms in an historical context with his contemporaries and orchestral music in general.
Seminar speakers:
William A. Everett is an associate professor of music history/musicology and chair of the Division of Composition, Music Theory and Musicology at the University of Missouri- Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance. His current projects include books on Sigmund Romberg and Rudolf Friml and research on music and national identity in the 19th century.
Paul R. Laird is a professor of musicology and director of the Musicology Division at the University of Kansas. He is also a baroque cellist and director of the KU Instrumental Collegium Musicum. His current projects include a book on Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and one on the musical theater of Stephen Schwartz.
Jointly Everett and Laird are editing the second edition of The Cambridge Companion to the Musical and writing The Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical.
Schedule:
9:30 a.m. Registration and coffee
10 a.m. Romanticism and 19th Century Composers: Program Music vs. Absolute Music
11 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Felix Mendelssohn and his Hebrides Overture
11:45 a.m. Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky and his Violin Concerto in D
12:15 p.m. Lunch provided
1:15 p.m. Johannes Brahms and his symphonies
2 p.m. Roundtable discussion
For more information, call Angel Mercier, Arts Education program director,
913-469-8500, ext. 4221. Tickets for the seminar are $20, available at the Carlsen Center box office, 913-469-4445.
