A stunning panoply of musical traditions and compositional voices closes the 2021-22 season. Abels’ Global Warming paints a vast futuristic desert next to a joyful dance of interwoven musical traditions. Price’s fourth symphony sings echoes of spirituals, antebellum dances and organ hymns together with lush harmonies and orchestral colors that only she can achieve. And our world premier of a new bass clarinet concerto by Mary Kouyoumdjian, featuring soloist Jeff Anderle, brings one of the 21st century’s most distinctive compositional voices to Minnesota.
Michael Abels: Global Warming
Mary Kouyoumdjian: “Walking with Ghosts” – Bass Clarinet Concerto
Jeff Anderle, clarinet
Florence Price: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor
Conducted by Brian Dowdy
Works Performed
Abels, Michael, Global Warming
Kouyoumdjian, Mary, “Walking with Ghosts” with soloist Jeff Anderle, Clarinet
Price, Florence, Symphony No. 4 in D Minor with soloist Jeff Anderle, Clarinet
Dates Performed
June 4, 2022
#129 Transformations
Concert first performed on June 19, 2021.
Saturday, June 19 at 7:00 pm
William Grant Still (arr. Lesnick): “I Ride an Old Paint” from Miniatures
Paul Bonneau: Caprice en Forme de Valse
Brian Hadley, Bassoon
Amy Beach: Pastorale for Wind Quintet
Missy Mazzoli: Kinski Paganini
Catherine Himmerich, Violin
Jonathan Russell: In the Fir Trees: Fireflies
Sahba Aminikia: House of Circus
Our season finale is the “second spring” of the 2020-21 season. The music of William Grant Still, Amy Beach, Jonathan Russell and others calls us back to nature. With new music by Iranian-American composer Sahba Aminikia, the world premier of House of Circus features the “Circus Heroes” of the Sirkhane Social Circus School and explores the transformational power of play.
Conductor
Brian Dowdy
Flute
Danielle Boor
Steve Cronk
Oboe
Diane Benjamin
Clarinet
Misen Luu
Bassoon
Brian Hadley
French Horn
Teresa Manzella
Tim Dwight
Trumpet
Buffy Larson
Gordon Meyers
Trombone
Brian McCullough
Tuba
Dean Shea
Violin
Catherine Himmerich
Joe Dolson
Isabel Arenivar
Rebecca Eilers
Viola
Lucas Moen
Blake Scheib
Cello
Kristin Snow
Marinos Glitsos
Bass
Jason Anderson
Percussion
Sarah Johnson
Conducted by Brian Dowdy
Works Performed
William Grant Still (arr. Lesnick), I Ride an Old Paint with soloist )
Paul Bonneau, Caprice en Forme de Valse with soloist )
Amy Beach, Pastorale for Wind Quintet with soloist )
Missy Mazzoli, Kinski Paganini with soloist )
Jonathan Russell, In the Fir Trees: Fireflies with soloist )
Sahba Aminikia, House of Circus with soloist )
Dates Performed
June 19, 2021
#61 Almostly Mozart
Concert first performed on November 11, 2006.
Conducted by Joseph Schlefke
Works Performed
Mozart, Leopold, Sinfonia di Caccia in G Major (Jagdsinfonie) (c. 1750)
Mozart, Wolfgang A, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra arr for Viola (1791) with soloist Nils Bultmann, viola
Bultmann, Nils, Spirit (2006) World Premiere with soloist Nils Bultmann, viola
Dove, Jonathan, Figures in the Garden
Salieri, Antonio, Overture to La Scuola di Gelosi
Tchaikovsky, Peter, Suite No. 4 in G Major Op 61 (“Mozartiana”) (1887)
