this Press Release

PRESS CONTACTS:
Bernadette Horgan, [email protected]
Kathleen Drohan, [email protected]
617-638-9280
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: February 2, 2012
GUEST CONDUCTORS KURT MASUR, CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, AND
STÉPHANE DENÈVE LEAD THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN
THREE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERTS IN MARCH
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE BEETHOVEN’S MISSA SOLEMNIS, WITH SOLOISTS CHRISTINE BREWER,
MICHELLE DeYOUNG, SIMON O’NEILL, AND ERIC OWENS, BERLIOZ’S SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE,
SHOSTAKOVICH’S SYMPHONY NO. 5, AND WORKS FEATURING PIANO SOLOISTS PETER SERKIN AND
CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN
BSO Performances to take place Tuesday, March 6 and Wednesday, March 7, at 8 p.m.,
and Friday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m.
Under the batons of conductors Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, and Stéphane Denève, the
Boston Symphony Orchestra presents three programs at New York’s Carnegie Hall in a four-day span,
Tuesday, March 6–Friday, March 9. The concerts feature a wide range of repertoire featuring centerpieces of
the 19th-century repertoire and pioneering works from the first half of the 20th century. Cédric Tiberghien
joins the orchestra March 7 for Piano Concerto in G, and frequent BSO guest Peter Serkin joins the BSO on
March 9 to perform Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Winds. In addition to these performances, Keith
Lockhart and the Boston Pops will also be featured in concert on March 8, at 8 p.m., performing the New
York premiere of Christ Brubeck’s Travels in Time for Three with the genre-bending Time for Three, a musical
tribute to legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman, and works by Bernstein and Copland.
For complete
www.bso.org/presskit.
programs,
ticket
information,
photos,
and
artist
bios,
click
here:
TUESDAY, MARCH 6 – KURT MASUR LEADS BEETHOVEN’S MISSA SOLEMNIS
German maestro Kurt Masur—who over his career has been music director of the Leipzig
Gewandhaus Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra and is one of the
most celebrated conductors of his generation—opens the BSO’s 2011–2012 Carnegie Hall season on March 6
with a program featuring a single monumental work. He is joined by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John
Oliver, conductor, soprano Christine Brewer, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, tenor Simon O’Neill, and
bass-baritone Eric Owens in Beethoven’s mighty Missa solemnis, one of the great masterpieces of the
composer’s lifetime and a towering achievement of the form. Composed between 1819 and 1823, the Missa
solemnis stands with other late works, including the Ninth Symphony and the late string quartets and piano
sonatas, as a culmination of Beethoven’s revolutionary transformation of the language of music.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 – CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH CONDUCTS WORKS BY BERLIOZ AND RAVEL’S PIANO
CONCERTO IN G WITH PIANIST CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN
On March 7, French pianist Cédric Tiberghien joins the BSO—conducted by current National
Symphony Orchestra music director and former leader of The Philadelphia Orchestra Christoph
Eschenbach—for Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, completed in 1931 and heavily influenced by jazz. To begin and
end the program, Mr. Eschenbach will conduct the BSO in two works by Berlioz: the Overture to Benvenuto
Cellini, the composer’s rarely performed opera based on the autobiography a 16th-century Florentine artist,
and the dazzling and beloved touchstone Symphonie fantastique, a virtuosic orchestral narrative that boasts
some of the most vibrant symphonic music ever written.
FRIDAY, MARCH 9 – STÉPHANE DENÈVE AND PETER SERKIN JOIN BSO FOR FINAL 2012 CARNEGIE
PROGRAM
BSO audience-favorite pianist Peter Serkin—especially known for his tireless advocacy and
outstanding performances of 20th-century and contemporary music—joins the BSO and French rising-star
conductor Stéphane Denève to help the orchestra close its 2011–2012 Carnegie Hall season on March 9. Mr.
Serkin is the soloist for Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Winds, a work from Stravinsky’s neoclassical
period, during which the composer wrote that he had “gone back in the centuries and begun over again, on a
historic foundation.” Also on the program are Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, which makes musical magic from
the old folk tales, and Shostakovich’s powerful Symphony No. 5, the symphony that cemented his place as
the most significant composer in Soviet Russia.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-12 appearances at Carnegie Hall range from $48$148. Tickets for the Boston Pops concert range from $42-$124. Subscriptions are available now; single
tickets will go on sale August 22 for subscribers and August 29 for general public. Tickets are available at the
Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street, New York. They may also be charged to major credit cards by
calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or purchased online at the Carnegie Hall website,
www.carnegiehall.org.
BSO SPONSORSHIPS
The March 6 BSO concert is sponsored by Commonwealth Worldwide Chauffeured Transportation,
the Official Chauffeured Transportation Provider of the BSO. The March 7 concert is sponsored by UBS. The
March 9 concert is sponsored by EMC Corporation.
#
#
#
PRESS CONTACTS:
Bernadette Horgan, Director of Public Relations ([email protected]) 617-638-9285
Kathleen Drohan, Associate Director of Public Relations ([email protected]) 617-638-9286
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CARNEGIE HALL PROGRAM, MARCH 6, 7, AND 9, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 8:00 p.m.
Choral Classics
Kurt Masur, conductor
Christine Brewer, soprano
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Simon O’Neill, tenor
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis, Op. 123
This concert and the Choral Classics series are made possible, in part, by an endowment fund for choral music
established by S. Donald Sussman in memory of Judith Arron and Robert Shaw.
This BSO concert is sponsored by Commonwealth Worldwide Chauffeured Transportation
Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 8:00 p.m.
Great American Orchestras I
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Cédric Tiberghien, piano
BERLIOZ Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
This BSO concert is sponsored by UBS
Friday, March 9, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Stéphane Denève, conductor
Peter Serkin, piano
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite
STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Winds
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
This BSO concert is sponsored by EMC Corporation