Masterworks Concerts
2012-2013 Season
Over the next three seasons, in an exploration titled "Mischief in Music: Wit, Insolence, and Insurrection," the FSO will examine how certain composers convey human characteristics from the silly to the serious, the light to the leviathan, the innocent to the irrevocable.
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Christopher Zimmerman, Conductor
Jeffrey Biegel, piano
Concert at 8:00pm, Pre-Performance Lecture at 7:00pm
ADAMS: Chairman Dances – Foxtrot for Orchestra
ZWILICH: Shadowsfor Piano and Orchestra
(Virginia Premiere and Co-Commission)
BERNSTEIN: Three Dance Episodes, “On the Town”
GERSHWIN: Piano Concerto in F Major
The FSO opens its season with
an All-American program with
something for everyone—Adams,
Bernstein, Gershwin, and the
Virginia premiere of a new concerto
by Pulitzer Prize winning composer
Ellen Taafe Zwilich, “Shadows”
featuring pianist Jeffrey Biegel.
George Mason University's Center for the Arts (Directions)
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Christopher Zimmerman, guest conductor
Edvinas Minkstimas, piano
Concert at 7:30pm
SCHNITTKE: Mozart à la Haydn
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 17
HAYDN: Symphony No. 83, "The Hen"
The Fairfax Symphony Orchestra is delighted to present its first chamber orchestra concert at the Austrian Embassy. This is a program that celebrates the two great Austrian masters of the classical era as well as a composer who pays unconventional hommage to both of them; a program of the old and the new, demonstrating the richness and diversity of our great classical musical legacy. In addition, the orchestra is pleased to present the artistry of pianist Edvinas Minkštimas, Artist in Residence of Embassy Series, Phillips Collection and Mahler Philharmonic in Vienna, Austria, who is fast becoming a name associated with musical excellence in United States and Europe. Tickets can be purchased directly through the Embassy Series.
SPECIAL VENUE: The Austrian Embassy (Directions)
Kenneth Woods, guest conductor
Benjamin Beilman, violin
Concert at 8:00pm, Pre-Performance Lecture at 7:00pm
BEETHOVEN: Overture to Coriolan, Op. 62
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto
Benjamin Beilman, winner of a 2012
Avery Fisher grant and a rising star on
the performance circuit, joins
the FSO for an All-Beethoven
program featuring the Violin
Concerto, and Symphony
No. 2, with guest conductor,
Kenneth Woods.
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Christopher Zimmerman, Conductor
James Dick, piano
Concert at 8:00pm, Pre-Performance Lecture at 7:00pm
ROSSINI: Overture to La Gazza Ladra
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"
Take a break from the holiday
madness with the FSO’s December
Masterworks concert featuring
pianist James Dick, founder of
the Round Top Festival Institute,
playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano
Concerto, complemented by
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6.
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Christopher Zimmerman, Conductor
Christina Jennings, Flute
Concert at 8:00pm, Pre-Performance Lecture at 7:00pm
MOZART: Overture to The Magic Flute
IVES: The Unanswered Question
LESHNOFF: Flute Concerto (Virginia Premiere)
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1
The FSO presents the Virginia
premiere of Baltimore-native
Jonathon Leshnoff’s Flute
Concerto, featuring Christina
Jennings, in a concert program that
also includes Mozart’s Overture
to The Magic Flute and Brahms’
Symphony No. 1.
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Christopher Zimmerman, Conductor
Concert at 8:00pm, Pre-Performance Lecture at 7:00pm
J. STRAUSS: Emperor Waltz
J. STRAUSS: Tick Tack, Pizzicato, and Trisch-Tratsch Polkas
R. STRAUSS: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
J. STRAUSS: Overture to Die Fledermaus
R. STRAUSS: Till Eulenspeigel's Merry Pranks
R. STRAUSS: Salome's Dance
Not normally associated with each other, due to their very different musical language and aesthetic, the FSO nevertheless celebrates the two most famous Strausses in an evening of music unified by dances and general mischief-making, ranging from the light-hearted to the lethal.
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Christopher Zimmerman, Conductor
Joni Henson, Soprano
Brennen Guillory, Tenor
Concert at 8:00pm, Pre-Performance Lecture at 7:00pm
VERDI: Overture to La Forza del Destino
VERDI: "Tu che le vanità conoscesti del mondo" from Don Carlos
WAGNER: Prelude to Act 3 from Lohengrin
WAGNER: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
VERDI: Preludes to Acts 1 and 3 from La Traviata
VERDI: “Gia nella notte” from Otello
VERDI: “Dio ti giocondi, O Sposo” and “Dio mi potevi, scagliar” from Otello
WAGNER: Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Overtures and arias from some
of the most beloved operas of our
age, by musical giants Wagner
and Verdi, both of whom are
celebrating the 200th anniversary
of their birth in 2012-2013.
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