2008-2009 CONCERT SERIES
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Cape May Concert Series 2009  | Avalon Concerts 2009

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Dear Friends,

As we enter a mile-marker year, we invite you to explore a cornucopia of terrific music, great soloists, and the artistry of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony! 

Our subscription series begins in November with Romanticism writ large.  The program, Lyric and Epic shows two very differing facets to this movement.  In the intimacy of Schumann’s Cello Concerto, we showcase the lyricism and poetry of young Russian cellist Christophor Miroshnikov.  The program opens with a bold-lettered New Jersey premier Chasing Light... by renowned American composer Joseph Schwantner, sponsored by Ford-Made in America.  We conclude with one of the most epic AND lyric symphonies in repertoire, Tchaikovsky’s powerful Symphony No. 5. 

January brings us a delicious combination of ballet music by Spaniard Manuel de Falla.  You will recognize much of his rich score to El Amor Brujo, such as the “ritual fire dance.”  We feature the electric mezzo soprano, Fenlon Lamb, who ignited our audiences performing Rigoletto.   Fenlon opens the concert with songs and arias that explore some of the same themes in El Amor Brujo, in a program not to be missed called, “Phantoms and Fire.”

Our program in March explores two contrasting sides of one of the greatest composers of symphonic form, Johannes Brahms.  His First Piano Concerto opens with more bluster and anguish, perhaps than any other, while his Second Symphony is arguably his most contented and even ebullient work.  We are delighted to welcome to our stage concert pianist Marian Hahn from the staff of Peabody Conservatory.

We bring young Corsican Olivier Cangelosi to perform Beethoven’s bold and innovative Third Piano Concerto, and match that work with two effervescent and youthful works by Prokofiev:  A Summer Day (Children’s Suite), and one of his best-know works, the Classical Symphony.  This work is notorious for requiring an orchestra of supreme virtuosity.  Come and share the pyrotechnics in this program we call, “Let’s Play!”

Don't Forget our 25th Anniversary Concert Gala, Thursday, September 18th
Sponsored by the Borgata Hotel and Casino