Charlotte Symphony – March Chamber Music Concerts

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT:
Charlotte Symphony String Sextet
TCHAIKOVSKY – Souvenir de Florence Opus 70
Sat Mar 17 – 2 pm
Myers Park Baptist Church
Tickets: $15 (general admission)
Partially composed while Tchaikovsky lived in Florence, Italy, this work is not quite the simple travelogue the title suggests, but an exhibition of Tchaikovsky's passionate, songful, flirtatious, and beguiling composition style written for two violins, two violas and two celli. In Tchaikovsky's own letters, he admitted that composing the sextet was extremely difficult and was unsure if he was even capable of completing the commission. Luckily for music lovers, he did complete the work and our Charlotte audience will enjoy hearing it and Brahms' String Sextet in B flat major performed live in the acoustically beautiful Myers Park Baptist Church sanctuary.
This concert underwritten in part by Catherine and Wilton Connor.

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT:
TCHAIKOVSKY - Piano Trio Opus 50 for Piano, Violin and Cello
Tues Mar 20 – 12 noon
Knight Theater
Phillip Bush, piano
Rosemary Furniss, violin
Alan Black, cello
Tickets: $15 (general admission) 
Composed in 1881 to commemorate the death of his friend and mentor, Nikolai Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky’s expansive Piano Trio is the only piece of its kind in the composer’s vast repertoire.  It remains a “tour de force” known for its breathtaking lyricism and romantic first movement.  Tchaikovsky himself initially thought strings and piano to be incompatible in small ensembles.  His own work happily proved him wrong.

CLASSICAL IDOL
Sat Mar 24, 7:30 pm
Pre-concert reception 6:30 pm
Knight Theater
Emceed by Maestro Christopher Warren-Green

It will tell the story of the transformational power of music through performance, video, testimony … and it’s a competition! Contest entries from the Charlotte Symphony Orchestras, NC Dance Theatre, Opera Carolina, Oratorio Singers, Winterfield and much more.

A Benefit for the Charlotte Symphony Orchestras, produced by The Symphony Guild.

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Triumph of Hope:
Violins of Hope with the Charlotte Symphony
Saturday, April 21
8:00 p.m.
Belk Theater
Christopher Warren-Green, conducting

Tickets available for purchase soon through the Charlotte Symphony Box Office

This final event of the “Violins of Hope” project presents violins recovered from the Holocaust, in a performance that celebrates the power of music and the resilience of the human spirit. Traditional works will be performed alongside the profoundly moving Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber and the Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, culminating in Beethoven’s masterful Violin Concerto, featuring Shlomo Mintz.

www.violinsofhopecharlotte.com

ORCHESTRA ON CAMPUS
Bearden: The Collage of Life and Art
Jacomo Rafael Bairos, conducting
Thu Nov 3  7:30 pm
Halton Theater, CPCC

A limited number of tickets are available for the general public. Tickets are $20 for adults and $12 for non-CPCC students and are available through the CSO ticket office at 704-972-2000.

Orchestra on Campus 2011 joins in the community wide birthday celebration of Charlotte-born artist Romare Bearden to present a special concert that brings together music, drama and visual art. Vibrant images of Romare Bearden’s well known collages will be projected on a large screen above the orchestra and will accompany music that evokes jazz, New York City, colors, and feelings of reflection. Dramatic readings from works of playwright August Wilson (and a friend of Romare Bearden) will add to the multi-disciplinary aspects of the concert.

The Music of Pink Floyd
Brent Havens, conducting
Fri Nov 4, 8 pm
Ovens Auditorium

A full-scale rock band, complete with light show, electric guitars and some of the best-known rock songs of all time joins the Symphony for this one-night only performance. Classic rock icon Randy Jackson leads the reincarnated super group in selections from Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, and more. Enjoy the musical power of the entire Symphony performing alongside the band for a night of music that epitomizes the musical experimentation and culture of the 1970s.

Scott Allen Jarrett, conducting
Oratorio Singers of Charlotte
Christina Pier, soprano
Amanda Crider, mezzo-soprano
John McVeigh, tenor
Tyler Duncan, baritone

The Charlotte Symphony and Oratorio Singers of Charlotte perform their annual production of Messiah. The oratorio is the composer's most famous, and celebrates the life of Christ, from “For Unto Us a Child is Born” to the “Hallelujah Chorus.”