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Our 2011-12 season offers myriad exciting opportunities for musical discovery. From beloved works of the Baroque and Classical repertoire to masterpieces of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the coming season celebrates the timeless tradition of great music over a series of programs designed to fascinate, challenge and inspire. This season, an elite lineup of classical music’s finest soloists and conductors—Artistic Partners Roberto Abbado, Dawn Upshaw, Christian Zacharias, and Thomas Zehetmair, and a dynamic roster of returning and debut artists including violinists Leila Josefowicz and Christian Tetzlaff, soprano Christine Brewer, and pianist Jonathan Biss—will join the SPCO to illuminate Western music’s most compelling masterworks. Season highlights include an in-depth exploration of Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Art of Fugue , the symphonies of Schubert and Mendelssohn, and much more. Be a part of our 2011-12 season and discover the transformative power of great music.
Composer Focus: Franz Schubert
March 29-April 14
Artistic Partner Thomas Zehetmair leads the orchestra in a three-week exploration of the music of Franz Schubert. As a complement to the Viennese master’s forward-looking orchestral works—including the colossal Ninth Symphony, appropriately nicknamed “The Great”—we’ll offer three
contemporary works: Betty Olivero’s Neharot, Neharot
featuring the renowned violist Kim Kashkashian; the world premiere of Irish composer Gerald Barry’s Feldman’s Six-Penny Editions
and John Harbison’s November 19, 1828
, an introspective meditation on the end of Schubert’s life.
Composer Focus: Felix Mendelssohn
April 26–May 11
Over three weeks, we’ll spotlight one of history’s most extraordinary musical geniuses. Felix Mendelssohn was the nineteenth century’s quintessential artist: an accomplished painter, piano and violin virtuoso, and literary scholar as well as the finest composer of his generation. Led by Artistic Partner Roberto Abbado, we will present four of Mendelssohn’s glorious five symphonies, culminating with the irresistible Italian . Alongside the music of Mendelssohn, the orchestra performs James MacMillan’s Veni, Veni, Emmanuel , featuring Principal Percussionist Michael Israelievitch, and gives the world premiere of a new work by Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli.
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue
Johann Sebastian Bach’s final work, The Art of Fugue, occupies a hallowed place in the classical music literature. Left unfinished at the time of the composer’s death, it is a work of profound invention that represents the summation of Bach’s artistry. This season, for the first time in the SPCO’s history, we’ll present this monumental cycle of fugues and canons by Western music’s greatest composer in a special two-concert series. Program I honors The Art of Fugue as the epitome of musical craft by prefacing it with Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 9, inspired by the young Mendelssohn’s study of Bach’s music, and Leon Kirchner’s Music for 12 , a masterpiece of the twentieth-century repertoire. Program II meditates on the music of Bach as an eternal source of spiritual nourishment, juxtaposing The Art of Fugue with the ethereal choral music of Arvo Pärt.
Time-Honored Classics
This season features an array of perennially beloved concert favorites including Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony and First and Third Piano Concertos, Handel’s Water Music , Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro , and much more!
Music Begins Here
The SPCO presents five world premieres in the 2011-12 season. On opening night, the orchestra joins forces with Cantus to present Luminous Body by the ubiquitous Nico Muhly. In October, we’ll welcome pianist and composer Lera Auerbach for a week-long residency, which will feature the world premiere of her Primera luz as part of our engine408 Series. In the spring, Artistic Partners Dawn Upshaw, Thomas Zehetmair, and Roberto Abbado bring to life new music by Donnacha Dennehy, Gerald Barry, and Giorgio Battistelli. In addition to these five premieres, the season includes works by an impressive array of today’s leading composers, including Magnus Lindberg, Anna Clyne, Ned Rorem, and many more.
Subscriber Benefits
Season ticket holders enjoy many privileges all season long.
FLEXIBILITY: Free and flexible ticket exchanges: if you can’t make it to a concert in your series, simply call us before your concert and exchange into a different one!
PRIORITY: Priority seating before the general public, guaranteed same seats for each concert in your series where available, and advance ordering privileges for additional single tickets before the general public.
CONVENIENCE: Option to purchase prepaid parking for Ordway evening and Ted Mann matinee concerts.
Downloads
Here are schedules, brochures, and forms that you can download and print.
- Season announcement press release (PDF)
- 2011-12 Series Renewal Brochure (PDF)
- Create Your Own Series order form (PDF)
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