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2 days ago
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Erie Philharmonic brings back summer concert series
A popular music series is returning this summer. The Erie Philharmonic will be hosting its 'In Your Hometown' summer concert series from July 10 through August 6. Erie Philharmonic Music Director Daniel Meyer is excited to share the Philharmonic's music with the public. 'Our free outdoor concerts have become a popular tradition, with audiences across Erie County bringing picnic blankets, lounge chairs, and some food and drink as they hear us in a casual atmosphere,' he says. Splash Lagoon offering special ticket pricing for Erie Co. residents Concerts will take place in Corry, Meadville, North East, Girard and Edinboro. Depending on the date and location, the public can expect to hear the Philharmonic orchestra, brass ensemble or chamber ensemble. The full schedule is as follows: Orchestra | Daniel Meyer, conductor Thursday, July 10, 2025 at Downtown City Park in Corry (300 N. Center St.) Saturday, July 12, 2025 at Diamond Park in Meadville (Diamond Park Sq.) Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at Gibson Park in North East Brass Ensemble | Ken Heinlein, conductor Monday, July 21, 2025 at Pleasant Ridge Park in Girard Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at Gibson Park in North East Thursday, July 24, 2025 at Goodell Gardens in Edinboro (221 Waterford St. Route 6N) Chamber Ensemble Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025 at Gibson Park in North East Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
23-05-2025
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- New York Times
Review: Dudamel Unveils a Love Letter to the Philharmonic
'Is there anything like that first strike of the bow?' Kate Soper asks at the start of her new piece for the New York Philharmonic. 'A hundred players moving as one! All that splendor, all that might!' She is describing the wonders of an orchestra, and you don't have to take her word for it. In Soper's sweet, clever 'Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus,' which had its premiere at David Geffen Hall on Thursday under Gustavo Dudamel's baton, the ensemble illustrates her words as she says them, 'Peter and the Wolf' style. 'The highs got higher, the lows got lower,' she says, explaining the development of instruments, and we hear ethereal pitches, then loud rumbles. 'Wood was lacquered,' she goes on, to delight in the oboe and clarinet. 'Metal bent' elicits a horn fanfare and trombone slide. Soper soon proclaims, with disarming plainness, 'That's right everyone: I'm Orpheus!' In this half-hour monodrama for a mostly speaking, sometimes singing soprano, she offers a tender retelling of the legend of the great musician of Greek mythology. Her story blends into a poetic reflection on music's meaning, what it can do (offer glimpses of the sublime) and what it can't (most anything else). Soper does all this in quirkily postmodern style. Her eclectic, quick-shifting sounds, including touches of memorably ancient-feeling bass flute, are woven into a quilt of quotations from famous settings of the Orpheus myth by Monteverdi and Gluck, as well as lesser-heard ones by Sartorio, Landi, Campra and others. There are also flashes of Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mozart and Grieg in the mix, and the text, mostly original, interpolates passages from Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus.' Modern music lovers may be reminded of Luciano Berio's more chaotic collage 'Sinfonia.' For fans of Soper, especially in her composer-performer mode, 'Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus' will recall brainy, winsome works like 'Ipsa Dixit' (2016), which she began by posing the spoken question, 'What is art?' and attempted to answer through snippets of writers like Aristotle, Lydia Davis and Freud. Creating her first big orchestral piece, Soper has clearly understood she's writing for a broader audience; 'Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus' is more immediately accessible than the fascinating but abstruse 'Ipsa Dixit.' Philharmonic programs don't tend to feature a lot of humor — certainly not of Soper's winking mash-up variety — and her voice is a whimsical change of pace as the season draws to an end. Dudamel, who becomes the Philharmonic's music director designate later this year before fully taking the reins in fall 2026, preceded the orchestra's latest commission with its first: Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, conducted by its composer at its 1946 premiere. It's better known at Lincoln Center these days as the score for one of George Balanchine's classic leotard works, regularly danced by New York City Ballet. Played by the Philharmonic on Thursday with confident panache, it, like the Soper piece, offered a love letter to the orchestra's range, from burly power to graceful delicacy: 'All that splendor, all that might!' Too bad those qualities were missing from the program's closer, Philip Glass's dreary 11th Symphony (2017). Glass's listlessly chugging symphonies are nowhere near his greatest achievements, but the 40-minute 11th is finding its way to major orchestras; Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony did it a few years ago. A grumbling beginning yields to characteristically swirling Glassian figurations in the strings — well played by the Philharmonic, the arpeggios precise yet warm. After mild lyricism in the second movement, the third unleashes a battery of percussion. In Glass's 1984 opera 'Akhnaten,' that kind of raucous drumming is an arresting evocation of antiquity. Here, it's busy bombast, without real thrill or power.
Spectator
21-05-2025
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- Spectator
A spate of re-releases suggests that Wolfgang Sawallisch was no B-lister
Grade: A It's clearance-sale time for the great classical labels of the 20th century. As streaming platforms drain the remaining value out of once-prestigious recorded catalogues, even B-listers are being pulled up from the vaults and remastered for one last re-release. Eleven-disc Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos edition? Walter Weller's complete Decca recordings? Now's your chance: everything must go! The Bavarian conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, who died in 2013, was never exactly B-list. His name always commanded respect. But in the golden age of LP collecting he was regarded as a safe pair of hands rather than a blue-chip name. Listening to a mini spate of Sawallisch re-releases suggests that we underrated him. His Schumann symphonies are surely the best on record, and a live Munich recording of Mendelssohn's Elijah from 1984 offers a glimpse into a living tradition – a conductor and performers speaking a shared musical language as natives. But this new remastering of Schubert's Unfinished and Mendelssohn's Italian probably tells you all you need to know. The performances date from 1959-60, around the time that Sawallisch – typically – tied his destiny to Vienna's orchestral also-rans, the Symphony Orchestra, rather than the show ponies up the Ringstrasse at the Philharmonic. The unforced depth of tone in the Schubert, and the expressive weight in its tragic climaxes; the contrast between the glowing orchestral colours of the Mendelssohn and Sawallisch's exultant forward momentum… well, see what you think. And then marvel that there was ever a time when we took conducting like this for granted.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
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Heritage Day at Carillon Park to feature Centerville Community Band
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Heritage Day in Carillon Historical Park is one of the staples of the beginning of summer in the Miami Valley, however, it will be a little different this year. Now, it will feature a special performance by the Centerville Community Band. Typically, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra gives the last performance of Heritage Day, however, they will be representing Dayton at the 2025 NATO Parliamentary Assembly. The Philharmonic will be performing during the Assembly. Why is NATO coming to Dayton? Music is still a vital part of Heritage Day, which will be on Sunday, May 25, 2025, from noon to 5 p.m. Rain or shine. The park's exceptional new carillonneur, Alan Bowman, will play a Memorial Day concert at 1 p.m. The Carillon Park Concert Band, which features local high school music students, will take the stage a 2 p.m. A new Carillonneur debuts at Deeds Carillon this Easter Sunday Finally, at 3 p.m., the Centerville Community Band will close the evening with its special performance of 'Remember: A Tribute to Those Who Have Served Our Great Nation.' There will also be informative historical activities, costumed interpreters and more durning Heritage Day. Tickets can be bought by calling 937-293-2841 or clicking here. Prices are as follows: $14 per adult (ages 18 through 59) $12 per senior (ages 60 and above) $10 per child (ages 3 through 17) $10 for all active military, retirees, veterans and reservists. (Valid ID needed) To see the Philharmonic at Carillon Historical Park, come to the Father's Day concert on Sunday, June 15, at 7 p.m. To learn more about Dayton History and its spectacular educational and archival work within the Miami Valley, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
12-05-2025
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South Korean conductor Myung-Whun Chung named La Scala's first-ever Asian musical conductor
MILAN -- South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung was named on Monday the new musical director of the famed Milan opera house, Teatro alla Scala, the first Asian to hold the position. Chung, 72, will replace Riccardo Chailly at the end of next year, and will remain in the role until general manager and artistic director Fortunato Ortombina's term ends in February 2030, La Scala said in a statement. Chung, who is also a renowned pianist, has conducted many of the world's most famous orchestras, and is a towering cultural figure in South Korea. La Scala noted his 'close and productive' relationship with La Scala's orchestra, choir and philharmonic, and credited him with doing more than any other any non-musical director to raise La Scala's international profile. Since 1989, Chung has conducted nine operas in 84 performances, and 141 concerts at La Scala — the most of any conductor who was not a musical director. He also has conducted La Scala's Philharmonic on tours throughout Italy and abroad, including in Germany, China, Japan and South Korea. Among his numerous posts, Chung has previously been music director of the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris and the Korean Broadcasting System, as well as artistic director of the Busan Opera and Concert Hall in South Korea.
