orlando philharmonic orchestra season brochure 2012-2013
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A list of major events for 2012-2013, including subscription prices for brand new subscribers. Classics, Pops, Opera and Chamber series included. For more information, visit www.orlandophil.org or call 407-770-0071.TRANSCRIPT
Prices below reflect 50% discount from single ticket prices on Super, Classics and Pops Series,
excluding Conductor’s Circle. Discount applies to first-time subscribers and those who have not
subscribed since the 2009-2010 season. All artists and programs subject to change.
New subscribers SAVE 50% off single ticket prices!
November 17 • 8 pm Saturday
3. BRONFMAN & BEETHOVEN Christopher Wilkins, conductor • Yefim Bronfman, piano
A legendary pianist performs Beethoven’s majestic ‘Emperor’ concerto. Two musicaltributes sustain the heroic mood: Stella Sung’s salute to the Philharmonic’s own heroes, and Elgar’s masterpiece honoring his closest friends.
SUNG | Promenade (world premiere) Commissioned in honor of Lynn & Chuck Steinmetz, 2012 John Blackburn Distinguished Service Award recipients
ELGAR | Enigma Variations
BEETHOVEN | Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’
January 26 & 27 • *YOUR CHOICE: 8 pm Saturday or 3 pm Sunday
5. CHANG & TCHAIKOVSKY Alasdair Neale, conductor • Sarah Chang, violin
The brooding emotional drama of the Fifth Symphony is classic Tchaikovsky.Rossini’s genius for melody and comedy permeates his popular Semiramide
Overture. For pure American lyricism, no work outshines Barber’s Violin Concerto,performed by the incomparable Sarah Chang.
ROSSINI | Semiramide Overture BARBER | Violin ConcertoTCHAIKOVSKY | Symphony No. 5
March 16 • 8 pm Saturday
7. VOIGT SINGS WAGNER & STRAUSS Christopher Wilkins, conductor • Deborah Voigt, soprano
Deborah Voigt, the unsurpassed dramatic soprano of our time, sings luminous songs of Strauss and the sublime Love-Death from Tristan and Isolde. Love andtragedy commingle in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Mozart’s dark comedy, Don Giovanni.
MOZART | Don Giovanni Overture PROKOFIEV | Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) STRAUSS| Songs: Morgen, Ständchen, Frühlingsfeier, Befreit, Zueignung WAGNER | Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
April 27 • 8 pm Saturday
9. MENDELSSOHN: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Christopher Wilkins, conductor • Jim Helsinger, director • featuring actors from Orlando Shakespeare Theater
SPONSORED BY THE BRYCE L. WEST FOUNDATION
This highly anticipated artistic collaboration brings together stage and musical stars of Orlando in the most celebrated of all musical scores written for a classicplay. Mendelssohn’s Wedding March signals a happy ending, even though “thecourse of true love never did run smooth.”
October 13 • 2 pm & 8 pm Saturday
2. WICKED DIVAS Andrew Lane, conductor • featuring Alli Mauzey & Nicole Parker
Former Principal Pops and Resident Conductor Andrew Lane returns to thepodium in this concert of diva showstoppers featuring the high-flying BroadwayWicked stars Alli Mauzey and Nicole Parker, performing selections from theTony Award-winning musical, along with favorites from Chicago, Ragtime, Phantom of the Opera and more.
November 24 • 2 pm & 8 pm Saturday
4. HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Albert-George Schram, conductor • The Holiday Singers • Florida Opera Theatre Youth Program Singers, Robin Jensen, director
Back by popular demand! Join Albert-George Schram, the Holiday Singers andthe Florida Opera Theatre Youth Program Singers for a concert of holidayfavorites, and a few seasonal surprises.
February 9 • 2 pm & 8 pm Saturday
6. MY FUNNY VALENTINE Albert-George Schram, conductor • featuring Michael Andrew & Swingerhead
Backed by both the Orlando Philharmonic and his own band Swingerhead,comic personality and Orlando favorite Michael Andrew sings romantic tunesfrom the Great American Songbook.
March 30 • 2 pm & 8 pm Saturday
8. CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE Christopher Wilkins, conductor • featuring world-class cirque performers
"dazzling and elegant if not death-defying!" - San Francisco Examiner
Cirque meets Symphony in this thrilling program featuring music by Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák and others. Acrobats, contortionists, jugglersand strongmen perform amazing feats, and aerialists soar overhead as the orchestra below provides plenty of musical suspense.
May 11 • 2 pm & 8 pm Saturday
10. HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT
REALLY TRYING Christopher Wilkins, conductor • Frank McClain, director
SPONSORED BY HARRIETT’S CHARITABLE TRUST
Former window washer J. Pierrepont Finch scratches his way to the top at the World Wide Wicket Company in Frank Loesser (Guys & Dolls) & Abe Burrows’ Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about coffee breaks, workplace romance and corporate ladder climbing.
November 9 & 11 • 8 pm Friday and 2 pm Sunday
MOZART: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGAROJoel Revzen, conductor • Jay Lesenger, director
It’s an “Upstairs, Downstairs” world – filled with seduction, lust, infidelity, love and forgiveness – all woven
together seamlessly with sublime music. The Count and Countess Almaviva’s clever maid Susanna and her
fiancée, Figaro the valet, plot to outwit the Count and his philandering ways in this comedy many opera lovers
consider Mozart’s most ‘perfectly’ written opera.
Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
April 5 & 7 • 8 pm Friday and 2 pm Sunday
PUCCINI: MADAMA BUTTERFLYChristopher Wilkins, conductor • Frank McClain, director
Butterfly, a beautiful young geisha, sacrifices her family, her religion, and ultimately her life for an American
World War II naval officer, Lieutenant Pinkerton. He takes Butterfly as his bride for convenience, with no
intention of bringing her home to America. The sweeping emotional power of Puccini’s music is unsurpassed
in all of opera.
Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
April 22 • 7 pm Monday
4. PHILHARMONIC VIRTUOSIChristopher Wilkins, conductor
The spotlight shines on Philharmonic musicians ina kaleidoscopic mix of solo repertoire. Concertosinclude a Bach masterpiece, a favorite double concerto of Stamitz, and the samba-infusedsounds of a dazzling new trombone concerto.
October 22 • 7 pm Monday
1. HAYDN: MAD SCIENTISTDirk Meyer, guest conductor
Haydn enjoyed the perfect musical laboratory inEsterhazy. His prince loved music and generouslyfunded an exceptional orchestra. Haydn’s experiments could be outlandish, but theychanged the course of musical history.
February 18 • 7 pm Monday
3. THE SLAVIC SOUL Christopher Wilkins, conductor
Slavic music has a unique warmth and depth offeeling. It is often inspired by folk music, and hasbeen made famous by generations of great stringvirtuosi who have championed it. Tchaikovsky,Borodin and Dvořák lead the way.
December 10 • 7 pm Monday
2. BACH’S COFFEE HOUSE Christopher Wilkins, conductor
Zimmerman’s Coffee House was Bach’s musicalhome for secular music. There he performed hisBrandenburg concertos, orchestral suites, secularcantatas and music by others he admired, including Vivaldi and Telemann.
September 29 • 8:30 pm Saturday
1. MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 3Christopher Wilkins, conductor • University of Central Florida Women’s Chorus, Dr.David Brunner, director • Florida Opera Theatre Women’s Chorus, Robin Stamper,director • Florida Opera Theatre Youth Program, Robin Jensen, director
SPONSORED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC
Mahler’s Third is his “Pastorale Symphony”—an epic ode to nature, beginning withthe imposing march of spring arriving in the Austrian Alps, and concluding withmusic of overwhelming beauty, described by Mahler as the embrace of divine love.
New Subscribers Save 50%!
SERIES SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS QT Y SEATING LEVEL TOTAL
FULL
SUPER
SERIES
Includes all 10 evening Classics
& Pops concerts at Bob Carr.
FOR CONCERT #5, CHOOSE:
□ SAT, JAN 26 at 8 pm
□ SUN, JAN 27 at 3 pm
Cond. Circle: $620 $
Gold: $285 $
Silver: $195 $
Bronze: $143 $
Emerald: $85 $
CLASSICS
SERIES
5 Classics concerts at Bob Carr:
Super Series 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9.
FOR CONCERT #5, CHOOSE:
□ SAT, JAN 26 at 8 pm
□ SUN, JAN 27 at 3 pm
Cond. Circle: $320 $
Gold: $142 $
Silver: $97 $
Bronze: $71 $
Emerald: $43 $
POPS
SERIES
5 Pops concerts at Bob Carr:
Super Series 2, 4, 6, 8 & 10.
CHOOSE MATINEE OR EVENING:
□ MATINEES: SAT at 2 pm
□ EVENINGS: SAT at 8 pm
Cond. Circle (Mat): $300 $
Cond. Circle (Eve): $320 $
Gold: $142 $
Silver: $97 $
Bronze: $71 $
Emerald: $43 $
OPERA
SERIES
The Marriage of Figaro &
Madama Butterfly.
CHOOSE EVENING OR MATINEE:
□ FRI at 8 pm (Nov 9, Apr 5)
□ SUN at 2 pm (Nov 11, Apr 7)
Cond. Circle: $148 $
Gold: $110 $
Silver: $80* $
Bronze: $62* $
Emerald: $40 $
FOCUS
SERIES4 concerts at Margeson Theater,
Mondays at 7 pm
Level 1: $150* $
Level 2: $100* $
Level 3: $64 $
SOUNDS OF
SUMMER5 concerts at Margeson Theater,
Mondays at 7 pm
Level 1: $160* $
Level 2: $105* $
Level 3: $70 $
Subtotal $
Processing Fee $ 5.00
Tax-Deductible Donation $ optional
GRAND TOTAL $
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2) YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
Saturday afternoons and evenings at Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, Downtown Orlando.Saturday evenings at Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, Downtown Orlando.* Chamber orchestra concerts, Monday nights at Margeson Theater (Lowndes Shakespeare Center).
Chamber music concerts, Monday nights at Margeson Theater (Lowndes Shakespeare Center).
Friday nights and Sunday afternoons at Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, Downtown Orlando.
(See order form for details)
Order today at 407.770.0071 or www.OrlandoPhil.org www.youtube.com/TheOrlandoPhiltwitter.com/OrlandoPhilOrchfacebook.com/OrlandoPhilOrch
Michael Andrew & Swingerhead
Albert-George Schram
Alli Mauzey & Nicole Parker
Yefim Bronfman
Sarah Chang
Deborah Voigt
PURCHASEALL 10TOGETHERGet the best of both worlds! Purchase the Classics and Pops series
together by choosing “Super Series” on the order form.
Mail this form to:Orlando PhilharmonicBox Office812 E Rollins Street Suite 300Orlando, FL 32803
Questions? Call the Box Office: 407.770.0071.
Office hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
Cirque de la Symphonie
June 11 • 7 pm Monday
1. TAKE ME OUT TO THE
BRASS GAMES
Join us for some musical tailgating in a program of
great music and amusing antics by the Sovereign
Brass!
July 23 • 7 pm Monday
4. A MUSICAL OFFERING
Bach’s optimism is apparent in The Musical
Offering while Shostakovich’s towering String
Quartet No. 8 reflects his struggle to be resilient.
June 25 • 7 pm Monday
2. SUMMER SERENADES
The Philharmonic winds present classic serenades
and masterworks for wind ensemble, including
Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds in D minor, and
Mozart’s “Gran Partita,” thought to have been
chosen by Mozart for his own wedding.
August 6 • 7 pm Monday
5. ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC
JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Musicians of the Orlando Philharmonic are joined
by Central Florida’s leading jazz musicians for
music by Count Basie and Duke Ellington and
charts by contemporary big band arrangers.
July 9 • 7 pm Monday
3. TANGLISIMO
This all-tango program features Classical
Argentinean tangos from the 1920s, 30s and 40s,
as well as European tangos, including Piazzolla’s
Tango Nuevo.
Sovereign Brass
View soloists and complete repertoire list at www.OrlandoPhil.org.
This project is funded in part by Orange County Government
through the Arts & CulturalTourism Program
* Student discounts available in these areas. Call the Box Office for pricing.
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2012/1320TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
BY MAILComplete and mail the enclosed form
ONLINEBrowse & purchase online at www.OrlandoPhil.org
BY PHONECall the Box Office at 407.770.0071
SEATING CHOICEChoose your seats before tickets go on sale
to the general public.
SAVINGSWith five different price levels, there’s an
option for every budget. First-time
subscribers save 50% off single ticket
prices for Super, Classics and Pops Series.
(half-off prices are reflected on enclosed
order form).
FLEXIBILITYFree exchanges if you are unable to attend
a concert in your series. Call the Box Office
for details.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEEIf you’re not satisfied with your seats after
the first concert, we’ll be happy to exchange
them for you.
VIP TREATMENTAs a subscriber, you’ll receive invitations to
receptions, open rehearsals and other
special events.
WAYS TOORDER
Sarah Chang
Vladimir Tsarkov, Cirque de la Symphonie
WHY SUBSCRIBE? Celebrate
With Us!
NEW SUBSCRIBERSSAVE 50%off single ticket pricesfor Classics & Pops!
(capacity: 2300)
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Conductor’s Circle
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Emerald
DEAR FRIEND,
I am so excited to share with you our
2012-2013 season, as we celebrate
20 years as Central Florida’s
resident orchestra.
We’ve put together a spectacular
roster of guest artists and music for
you, from Beethoven's Emperor
Concerto to Mendelssohn's A
Midsummer Night's Dream, and
from Wicked Divas to Michael
Andrew. We’ll also perform two great
operas, and a special matinee
performance of the Sarah Chang
concert in January.
I hope you’ll consider a subscription
for yourself, and share the joy of the
Orlando Philharmonic with your
friends. I look forward to seeing you
for what promises to be our best
season yet.
Yours in music,
Christopher Wilkins
Music Director
Order today at 407.770.0071 or www.OrlandoPhil.orgwww.youtube.com/TheOrlandoPhiltwitter.com/OrlandoPhilOrchfacebook.com/OrlandoPhilOrch
2012
/13
CHOOSEYOUR SEATSBob Carr Performing Arts Centre
SUPER • CLASSICS • POPS • OPERA
Margeson Theater
FOCUS • SOUNDS OF SUMMER
(capacity: 300)