2006-2007
SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Three concerts
The only full-time, professional chamber orchestra in the country and one of the best in the world, the SPCO continues in its second year of a 3-year residency at the University of Chicago that includes a 3-concert series, educational activities on campus, a family concert and outreach into the public schools. The 33 musicians of the SPCO are among the best solo and ensemble players on the scene. Sharing creative leadership for the group with a team of 5 Artistic Partners, they offer audiences the intimacy of chamber music combined with the power of orchestral performance, with a repertoire that spans the whole spectrum from early music to the latest compositions.
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Sunday / 22 October 2006 / 3 p.m.
Stephen Prutsman, piano/conductor
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Bach Concerto in C minor for Oboe and Violin
Milhaud Creation of the World
Prutsman Jazz Fantasy on B-A-C-H
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
SPCO Artistic Partner Stephen Prutsman will wear all his hats as composer, conductor and pianist in this first concert of the 2006-2007 residency. Jazz will dominate as he leads the orchestra in Milhaud’s ballet based on an African-American creation myth and his own jazz fantasy for piano and string orchestra on the name BACH, which he recorded with YoYo Ma.
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Sat. / 10 Feb. 2007 / 10:30 a.m.
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Second Annual Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Family Concert
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra will present an assortment of orchestral treats to tantalize first-time concert-goers and their families.
For ages 6-12 |
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Sunday / 11 February 2007 / 3 p.m.
Steven Copes, violin
Sabina Thatcher, viola
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Rautavaara Fiddlers
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony
The concertmaster of the SPCO and the principal violist team up for this last of Mozart’s double concertos, considered a dramatic gesture of independence for the composer who probably wrote the viola part for himself as performer. The Chamber Symphony, one of Shostakovich’s most frequently performed works, was written as a quartet and transformed with the composer’s nod into the larger-scale work by the director of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.
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Sunday / 29 April 2007 / 3 p.m.
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Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Copland Appalachian Spring
Stravinsky The Soldier’s TaleSuite
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
The SPCO closes the second year of its residency with a program of “simple gifts” to its audience, music that is familiar and much beloved by many. The programmatic selections scale the heights and depths of emotion from Stravinsky’s soldier’s brush with the devil to the romantic splendor of Wagner’s birthday gift to Cosima. |
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If you’d like to learn more about The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s entire 2006-2007 concert season, visit their website at www.thespco.org
View the 2005-2006 Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Series archive
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