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Welcome Welcome to tonight’s special LSO concert celebrating the 60th birthday of the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, Valery Gergiev. Happy birthday Valery! And many congratulations on the recent opening of your fabulous new theatre in St Petersburg. The LSO is much looking forward to being the first international orchestra to play on your new stage next week. It is a pleasure to welcome two soloists in the first half of tonight’s concert who are particularly special to Gergiev: his long-time friend and musical partner, the pianist Alexander Toradze, and the violinist with whom he has so often shared the LSO platform in London and abroad: Leonidas Kavakos. No birthday celebration for Gergiev would be complete without opera, so we have devoted the second half of tonight’s performance to the fifth act from Berlioz’s The Trojans, and extend a warm welcome to Ekaterina Semenchuck and Sergei Semishkur, who have sung these roles with Gergiev many times; and to our other vocal soloists and the London Symphony Chorus. I would like to take the opportunity to thank Lord Rothermere for generously supporting tonight’s concert. His late father, the Third Viscount, was passionate about music and enjoyed very much his friendship with Valery Gergiev. I hope you enjoy tonight’s performance. Join us again on Bank Holiday Monday when Gergiev conducts more Berlioz with the Orchestra in Trafalgar Square in the second of its BMW LSO Open Air Classics concerts at 6.30pm. Kathryn McDowell LSO Managing Director 2 Welcome Kathryn McDowell © Camilla Panufnik
Bank Holiday Monday 27 May 2013 6.30pm Trafalgar Square Free entry, arrive early to secure your place No glass or furniture can be taken into the Square lso.co.uk/openair
Page 1: London Symphony Orchestra Living Mu
Page 5 and 6: the Devil, and undoubtedly influenc
Page 7 and 8: Hector Berlioz The Trojans - Act Fi
Page 9 and 10: Trojan Sentry 1 La belle vie, Pourt
Page 11 and 12: Lutter contre moi-même et contre t
Page 13 and 14: Avant le jour il faut quitter le po
Page 15 and 16: Aeneas Mais pour mourir, Obéissant
Page 17 and 18: Aux sombres déités de l’empire
Page 19 and 20: No 50: Scène Dido (Parlant comme e
Page 21 and 22: Messages from Friends Birthday Mess
Page 23 and 24: Alexander Toradze Leonidas Kavakos
Page 25 and 26: Dr Thomas Angyan Laurent Bayle Louw
Page 27 and 28: Happy Birthday Valery! Birthday Mes
Page 29 and 30: Leonidas Kavakos Violin ‘Kavakos
Page 31 and 32: Ekaterina Semenchuk Didon (mezzo-so
Page 33 and 34: Gary Griffiths Second Soldier (bari
Page 35 and 36: On stage First Violins Roman Simovi

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