CAMA - March 28, 2018 - Program Notes - San Francisco Symphony - International Series at The Granada Theatre
CAMA's International Series Presents San Francisco Symphony Wednesday, March 28, 2018 The Granada Theatre, 8:00 PM Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director Gil Shaham, Violin Alban Berg: Violin Concerto (1935) Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.5 Founded in 1911, the San Francisco Symphony is among the country’s most artistically adventurous and innovative arts institutions. Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas is Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, and Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra. He has won eleven Grammys® for his recordings, is the recipient of the National Medal of Arts, and is a Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. Gil Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time; his flawless technique combined with his inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit has solidified his renown as an American master. The Grammy® Award-winner, also named Musical America’s “Instrumentalist of the Year,” is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors, and regularly gives recitals and appears with ensembles on the world’s great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals. SEASON SPONSOR: SAGE Publications PRIMARY SPONSOR: The Elaine F. Stepanek Concert Fund PRINCIPAL SPONSOR: Herbert & Elaine Kendall SPONSORS: Bitsy & Denny Bacon and the Becton Family Foundation Fran & John Nielsen The Shanbrom Family Foundation CO-SPONSORS: Anonymous Elizabeth & Andrew Butcher Mahri Kerley/Chaucer’s Books Lynn P. Kirst Jocelyne & William Meeker Val & Bob Montgomery •
CAMA's International Series Presents
San Francisco Symphony
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
The Granada Theatre, 8:00 PM
Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director
Gil Shaham, Violin
Alban Berg: Violin Concerto (1935)
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.5
Founded in 1911, the San Francisco Symphony is among the country’s most artistically adventurous and innovative arts institutions. Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas is Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, and Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra. He has won eleven Grammys® for his recordings, is the recipient of the National Medal of Arts, and is a Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.
Gil Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time; his flawless technique combined with his inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit has solidified his renown as an American master. The Grammy® Award-winner, also named Musical America’s “Instrumentalist of the Year,” is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors, and regularly gives recitals and appears with ensembles on the world’s great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals.
SEASON SPONSOR:
SAGE Publications
PRIMARY SPONSOR:
The Elaine F. Stepanek Concert Fund
PRINCIPAL SPONSOR:
Herbert & Elaine Kendall
SPONSORS:
Bitsy & Denny Bacon and the Becton Family Foundation
Fran & John Nielsen
The Shanbrom Family Foundation
CO-SPONSORS:
Anonymous
Elizabeth & Andrew Butcher
Mahri Kerley/Chaucer’s Books
Lynn P. Kirst
Jocelyne & William Meeker
Val & Bob Montgomery
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<strong>Program</strong> <strong>Notes</strong><br />
Alban Berg<br />
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra<br />
ALBAN MARIA<br />
JOHANNES BERG<br />
BORN: February 9, 1885. Vienna<br />
DIED: December 24, 1935. Vienna<br />
COMPOSED: Begun in l<strong>at</strong>e April 1935,<br />
substantially completed by the middle of<br />
July, with the complete score being finished<br />
on August 11.<br />
WORLD PREMIERE: April 19, 1936, with<br />
violinist Louis Krasner and the Orquesta Pau<br />
Casals, conducted by Hermann Scherchen<br />
(substituting <strong>at</strong> the last minute for Anton<br />
Webern), <strong>at</strong> the <strong>Intern<strong>at</strong>ional</strong> Society for<br />
Contemporary Music Festival in Barcelona.<br />
INSTRUMENTATION: 2 flutes (both doubling<br />
piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn),<br />
3 clarinets (3rd doubling alto saxophone) and<br />
bass clarinet, 2 bassoons and contrabassoon,<br />
4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones (tenor and<br />
bass), tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals,<br />
snare drum, low tam-tam, high gong, triangle,<br />
and strings.<br />
DURATION: About 22 mins<br />
In February 1935, Louis Krasner, a Ukrainianborn,<br />
Boston-based violinist, approached<br />
the fifty-year-old Alban Berg to request th<strong>at</strong><br />
he compose a concerto. Krasner, who would<br />
live to the age of ninety-one, was near<br />
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