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Asheville Symphony Concerts March 2019
PIANO RECITAL: Lang, Schubert, Brahms FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2019 AT 8 P.M.
CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Orion Weiss & Shai Wosner, piano
Program: Lang gravity for piano Four Hands
Schubert Sonata in C Major for Piano Four Hands, “Grand Duo”
Lang after gravity for Two Pianos
Brahms Sonata in F Minor for Two Pianos
The Asheville Symphony invites you to attend "Have No Fear, Fortissimo is Here!"
Young People’s Concert
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 10:00 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
U.S. Cellular Center Asheville
Tickets $4.00 per seat
The Asheville Symphony returns for its Young People’s Concert this year helping superhero Fortissimo regain his superpowers. Students will learn about dynamics, rhythm, harmony, and instruments. Don your superhero cape, and join the show!
This year Symphony Music Director Darko Butorac plays the role of musical superhero Fortissimo, whose superhero power is to rid the world of bad music. Unfortunately for him, (and the world in general), dastardly Dr. Dissonance has defeated him, the treble maker that he is, and Fortissimo needs the help of the audience. “The kids in the audience help by demonstrating their musical prowess while learning a little bit along the way,” Butorac explains. “This show is very interactive and fully engages kids, which really amps up their level of understanding.” “And,” he adds, “it’s going to be hilarious.”
The concerts, which take place at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in the U.S. Cellular Center, and run about one hour. According to Butorac, this year’s repertoire includes recognizable and kid-friendly music including excerpts from well-known pieces such as the Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird and Jean Sibelius’s Finlandia. “You may not be able to pull the name of the piece out of your head,” he says, “but I guarantee it will be familiar to you.” To add to the superhero theme, music from Batman and Superman will also be featured, but that, he says, is a secret. (shhhhhhh!)
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Garrick Ohlsson & The Asheville Symphony Youth Orchestra Saturday, March 23, 2 p.m.
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
Tickets: Adult $25/Youth $15Atop one of Asheville’s largest stages, at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.
The Asheville Symphony Youth Orchestra performs with world-renowned guest pianist Garrick Ohlsson for Asheville Amadeus’ Finale Eve concert. To celebrate the enthusiastic brilliance of young musicians, ASYO’s four orchestras and percussion ensemble will perform exuberant music, including works by Mozart, Grieg and Márquez.
Following the performance, join us for a special milk-and-cookies reception.
Grieg | Piano Concerto in A Minor
Mozart | Overture to The Magic Flute
Márquez | Danz6n No. 2
To purchase tickets, call 828.254.7046 or visit the Asheville Symphony office at 27 College Place, Suite 100, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday, or order online via Ticketmaster.
Presented by: Asheville Symphony Youth Orchestra
Address: 87 Haywood St, Asheville, NC 28801
MASTERWORKS 6: Mozart, Rachmaninoff
SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2019 AT 4 P.M.
THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM
Darko Butorac, conductor Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Masterworks 6, which is also our Asheville Amadeus festival finale, is focused on the great Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff. We are joined by star pianist Garrick Ohlsson, one of the world’s foremost interpreters of Rachmaninoff. The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini challenges both the soloist and the orchestra and is renowned for its devilish virtuosity and deeply expressive romanticism. The Second Piano Concerto — perhaps the best-known work for piano and orchestra ever composed — radiates with grand romantic melodies and lush orchestration. We open the concert by paying homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a performance of his Symphony No. 25.
Program:
Mozart: Symphony No. 25
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Garrick Ohlsson Pianist
Pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire ranging over the entire piano literature and he has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. To date he has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century.
An avid chamber musician, Mr. Ohlsson has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, and Tokyo string quartets, and this fall will tour with the Takacs Quartet. Together with violinist Jorja Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier, he is a founding member of the San Francisco-based FOG Trio. Mr. Ohlsson can be heard on the Arabesque, RCA Victor Red Seal, Angel, BMG, Delos, Hänssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, Hyperion and Virgin Classics labels.
A native of White Plains, N.Y., Garrick Ohlsson began his piano studies at the age of 8, at the Westchester Conservatory of Music; at 13 he entered The Juilliard School, in New York City. He has been awarded first prizes in the Busoni and Montreal Piano competitions, the Gold Medal at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (1970), the Avery Fisher Prize (1994), the University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, MI (1998), and the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music (2014).
