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GÜNTHER HERBIG DALE BARLTROP CONCERT PROGRAM PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS MASTERWORKS SILVER / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 8PM saturday & monday, october 23, 25 Günther Herbig conductor ♦ Dale Barltrop violin Beethoven Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 ♦ Schumann Violin Concerto in D minor I. In kräftigem, nicht zu schnellen Tempo II. Langsam III. Lebhaft, doch nicht schnell INTERMISSION Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 I. Moderato II. Allegro III. Allegretto IV. Andante – Allegro Visit the Symphony Gift Shop for CD selections Masterworks Silver SERIES SPONSOR VIDEO SCREEN SPONSOR VIDEO PRESENTATION SPONSOR 34 allegro
Günther Herbig conductor Günther Herbig left behind the challenging political environment of East Germany and moved to the United States in 1984, where he has since conducted all of the top-tier orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras. Posts Herbig has held include music director of the Detroit Symphony and the Toronto Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of both the Dallas Symphony and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and general music director of both the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Currently he is Artistic Advisor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan and Principal Guest Conductor of Las Palmas in the Grand Canaries, Spain. Key figures in his musical training include Hermann Abendroth, Hermann Scherchen, and Herbert von Karajan. He has recorded over 100 works with a variety of East German orchestras, Toronto Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and others. Dale Barltrop violin Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, Dale Barltrop has performed across North America, Europe and Australia. He served as Principal Second Violin in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for six years prior to being appointed Concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony. As a soloist, Barltrop has performed with the Bloomington Symphony, Maryland Chamber Orchestra, University of Maryland Symphony and back home with the Queensland Orchestra and Queensland Pops Orchestra. He served as Associate Concertmaster of the Akron Symphony Orchestra and 1st violinist of the Verklärte Quartet, which won the grand prize at the 2003 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Barltrop moved to the United States in 1998 to attend the University of Maryland as a student of Gerald Fischbach and the Guarneri Quartet. He continued his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with William Preucil. Barltrop has a keen interest in teaching and has served on the faculty of the National Orchestral Institute and worked regularly with the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies. Ludwig van Beethoven b. Bonn, Germany / December 15, 1770 d. Vienna, Austria / March 26, 1827 Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 According to Plutarch, an historian of ancient Rome, Coriolanus was a general whose troops defeated a neighbouring tribe, the Volscians. Coriolanus’ hatred of the uncouth citizens who ruled his native city led him to insult them, resulting in his exile. Driven by his need for revenge, he joined the Volscians to attack Rome. The city lay at his mercy, until his foes sent his wife, mother and young son to plead with him for clemency. Coriolanus relented, and the Volscians, feeling betrayed, slew him. William Shakespeare used Plutarch’s writings as the basis for a play, Coriolanus. Coriolan, Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s stage version of the story, opened in Vienna in 1802. Beethoven composed his stirring Coriolan Overture in 1807. By that time, Collin’s play had vanished from the stage. It was remounted the next month, however, largely in order to profit from Beethoven’s superbly dramatic musical evocation. Robert Schumann b. Zwickau, Germany / June 8, 1810 d. Endenich, Germany / July 29, 1856 Violin Concerto in D minor Schumann composed this concerto in September and October 1853. It took him just 13 days, a typical result of his profoundly manic-depressive condition. Four months later, he attempted suicide by jumping into the Rhine. He spent the remaining years of his life confined to an asylum. allegro 35
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