NPAC INFORMATION
Wednesday, June 11, 7:30pm
Boettcher Concert Hall
BERNSTEIN, CORIGLIANO, KANCHELI
Jeffrey Kahane, music director
Duain Wolfe, conductor and chorus director
Natasha Paremski, piano
Basil Vendryes, viola
CSO Chorus
Bernstein, Overture to Candide
Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
John Corigliano, Piano Concerto *
Giya Kancheli, Styx
Back by popular demand, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra gives an encore performance of Giya Kancheli’s Styx. On April 4-5, 2008, the CSO, Principal Viola Basil Vendryes, Music Director Jeffrey Kahane and the CSO Chorus gave the United States premiere of Kancheli’s Styx to an overwhelming response. One composer/musician who attended the performance wrote to the editor of the Rocky Mountain News stating that “The performance demonstrated an absolute commitment to the music and the perfect synergy between conductor, symphony and a magnificently unified chorus. It featured technically impeccable but emotional performances all around, and an incredibly innovative program…the audience rose to its feet instantly after the final crashing note and burst into cheers and applause, visibly moved by the experience.”
Born in Tbilsi, Georgia, Kancheli is one of today’s most distinguished contemporary composers. His scores are known for their deeply spiritual nature, haunting aural images, varied colors and textures, sharp contrasts and shattering climaxes. Kancheli states that, “Music, like life itself, is inconceivable without romanticism. Romanticism is a high dream of the past, present and future--a force of invincible beauty which towers above, and conquers, the forces of ignorance, bigotry, violence and evil.”
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra is proud to present Kancheli’s stunning work which features CSO Principal Violist Basil Vendryes and the CSO Chorus. Also on the program, the CSO Chorus will perform Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms conducted by Chorus Director Duain Wolfe, immediate past chairman of Chorus America. At the suggestion of John Corigliano, rising star Natasha Paremski performs Corigliano’s virtuosic and theatrical Piano Concerto. To open the program the CSO performs Bernstein’s beloved Overture to Candide.
* CSO Premiere Performance
(Followed by Tune-Up Party, Hyatt Regency Convention Center Hotel.
Open to all League delegates. Mingle with colleagues and friends at the
Tune-Up Party back at the Hyatt Regency Convention Center Hotel
following the performance.
Your name badge serves as your admission.)
Friday, June 13, Evening
Ellie Caulkins Opera House
John Adams, Nixon in China
James Robinson, director
Marin Alsop, conductor