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Baroque & Beyond 1 Nov 15 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov 17 at 8 p.m.
Alan Yamamoto,
conducting BACH Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft, BWV 50 MENDELSSOHN Psalm 42, Op. 42 Wie der Hirsch schreit BRAHMS Serenade No. 2, Op. 16 The Oratorio Singers of Charlotte open the first concert of the new “Baroque & Beyond” concert series with two choral works of the German Protestant tradition – a brief cantata by J.S. Bach (“Now is come salvation and strength”) and Felix Mendelssohn’s serene setting of Psalm 42 (As the doe pants for running streams”). Mendelssohn composed much of this work while on his honeymoon and was pleased with the result, writing that it was “the best thing of its kind that I have written.” The orchestra follows with Brahms’s enchanting second Serenade, one of his earliest orchestral works. Comprised of five short movements, with no violins, the Serenade highlights the lithe lyricism of the woodwinds.
Tickets: $18; students $5
Pops 5
The Magic of Christmas
Alan Yamamoto,
conducting “A Charlotte tradition…Magic of Christmas sparkles like an ornament,” is how The Charlotte Observer describes the Symphony’s annual holiday celebration. Led by Resident Conductor Alan Yamamoto and Oratorio Singers Director Scott Allen Jarrett, this popular yuletide concert features caroling choirs, a rousing sing-along, and special guest performers. A musical gift for all ages!
Tickets: $21-$75; Family
discounts available.
Special 1
Handel’s Messiah Scott Allen Jarrett, conducting Last year’s Charlotte Symphony and Oratorio Singers performance of Handel’s most famous oratorio sold out. First performed in 1742, originally as a musical celebration of Easter, Messiah, with its stirring solos and choruses, has become a Christmas tradition.
Tickets: $15-$52; student rush
$10
Baroque & Beyond 2
Handel’s Saul Scott Allen Jarrett, conducting Although not as well known as Messiah, Handel’s oratorio, Saul, is considered by many to be his greatest dramatic work – in fact, one of the great dramatic works of the ages. With a libretto by Charles Jennens (who wrote the text for Messiah), Saul chronicles the story of David and King Saul as told in the Old Testament’s First Book of Samuel. But, while faithful to the Biblical text, it really assumes the form of Greek or Shakespearean tragedy as it explores King Saul’s madness and eventual death. Handel’s music, composed in 1738 (the year after he suffered a serious stroke), is masterful in its characterizations, and the orchestration – beefed up with trombones, harp, and extra percussion – is one of the largest in 18th-century repertoire.
Tickets: $18; students $5
Classics 10
Carmina Burana
Christof Perick,
conducting MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 ORFF Carmina burana The Oratorio Singers of Charlotte join the symphony for Carmina burana, Carl Orff’s boisterous and sometimes bawdy cantata. Completed in 1937, Carmina burana sets 13th-century poems about fortune and fate, women and wine to music that is both tuneful and exhilaratingly percussive. The Charlotte Symphony’s own concertmaster, Calin Lupanu, opens the program with Mendelssohn’s beautiful Violin Concerto. Joseph Joachim, the great 19th-century violinist, admired the violin concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, and Bruch, “but the dearest of them all, the heart’s jewel,” he wrote, “is Mendelssohn’s.”
Tickets:
$16-$76;
student rush $10 |
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