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September
MW1: Opening Night
September 18, 2010
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville Civic Center, 8:00pm
Tchaikovsky Suite from Sleeping Beauty
Szymanowski Violin Concerto No.1
Rachel Barton Pine, violinHindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis
On opening night, we begin with some of the most beloved music by the king of ballet: Tchaikovsky’s magical score to Sleeping Beauty. We will also introduce American virtuoso Rachel Barton Pine, making her Asheville debut. Rachel’s unquenchable thirst for discovery has led to her mastery of styles, whether it’s probing the music of Bach on period instruments, writing her own cadenzas to Beethoven, or rocking out with her own heavy metal band!
MW2 Beethoven's Eroica
October 16, 2010
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville Civic Center, 8:00pm
Walton Crown Imperial March
Neruda Trumpet Concerto
Mark Clodfelter, trumpetHovhaness Prayer of St. Gregory
Beethoven Symphony No. #3 "Eroica"
In October, we contrast two ideas imperial. We begin with William Walton’s rousing dedication to England’s George VI at his coronation in 1937 and finish with the watershed symphony by Beethoven that ushered in music’s Romantic age. His ‘Eroica’ Symphony No. 3 of 1803 was initially dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, but Napoleon’s name was soon erased from the title page when Beethoven learned that the revolutionary had become a despot. Read more....
MW3 A Midsummer's Night Dream with NC Stage Company
November 20, 2010
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville Civic Center, 8:00pm
Mendelssohn Midsummer Night’s Dream Suite
NC Stage CompanyFinzi For St. Cecilia
Asheville Symphony ChorusBorodin Polovtsian Dances
Asheville Symphony Chorus
We have invited the talented actors of the North Carolina Stage Company to join us in November to collaborate in a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s take on the Shakespeare classic: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Of course the original Shakespeare and the music it inspired stand on their own, but ...
