Monday, January 27, 2020—CAMA Presents the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Pinchas Zukerman—International Series at The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2020, 8:00PM / CAMA Presents the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin soloist / CAMA’s International Series rings in 2020 with the welcome return of London’s ever-popular Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Formed in 1946 by Sir Thomas Beecham, it has been at the forefront of music-making in Britain for over seven decades, recognized worldwide as one of the United Kingdom’s most prodigious orchestras. In 1966, Queen Elizabeth conferred the title of “Royal” unconditionally on the orchestra. In its self-appointed role as Britain’s national orchestra, the RPO has toured in more than thirty countries across the globe, as well as performing annual concert series at both London’s Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall. In a career spanning five decades, Pinchas Zukerman (Principal Guest Conductor of the RPO) is universally respected as a virtuoso violinist, violist, conductor and chamber musician with over 100 recordings released to date earning 21 Grammy® nominations. / PROGRAM: TCHAIKOVSKY: “Polonaise” from Eugene Onegin / MOZART: Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, K.219, “Turkish” / TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2020, 8:00PM / CAMA Presents the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin soloist / CAMA’s International Series rings in 2020 with the welcome return of London’s ever-popular Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Formed in 1946 by Sir Thomas Beecham, it has been at the forefront of music-making in Britain for over seven decades, recognized worldwide as one of the United Kingdom’s most prodigious orchestras. In 1966, Queen Elizabeth conferred the title of “Royal” unconditionally on the orchestra. In its self-appointed role as Britain’s national orchestra, the RPO has toured in more than thirty countries across the globe, as well as performing annual concert series at both London’s Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall. In a career spanning five decades, Pinchas Zukerman (Principal Guest Conductor of the RPO) is universally respected as a virtuoso violinist, violist, conductor and chamber musician with over 100 recordings released to date earning 21 Grammy® nominations. / PROGRAM:
TCHAIKOVSKY: “Polonaise” from Eugene Onegin / MOZART: Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, K.219, “Turkish” / TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64
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years of inexorable tedium, <strong>the</strong> twentytwo-year-old<br />
wrote to his fa<strong>the</strong>r informing<br />
him th<strong>at</strong> he was going to make music<br />
his career.<br />
Enrolling <strong>at</strong> <strong>the</strong> Conserv<strong>at</strong>ory in 1863,<br />
Tchaikovsky’s progress was fairly spectacular.<br />
Having composed little more than<br />
a handful of piano pieces and songs up<br />
to this point, <strong>with</strong>in five years he had <strong>the</strong><br />
remarkably assured First Symphony (‘Winter<br />
Daydreams’) under his belt. In addition,<br />
he had been taken on as a lecturer <strong>at</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
newly founded Moscow Conserv<strong>at</strong>ory, and<br />
<strong>the</strong>n in 1869 produced <strong>the</strong> first version of<br />
his seminal Romantic masterpiece, <strong>the</strong><br />
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.<br />
Despite recurring fits of depression<br />
brought about by his n<strong>at</strong>ural insecurity<br />
and homosexuality, this opened <strong>the</strong> floodg<strong>at</strong>es<br />
to a stream of compositions over <strong>the</strong><br />
following seven years which indisputably<br />
established Tchaikovsky as Russia’s gre<strong>at</strong>est<br />
living composer, including <strong>the</strong> Second<br />
(‘Little Russian’) and Third (‘Polish’)<br />
Symphonies, <strong>the</strong> First Piano Concerto,<br />
<strong>the</strong> ballet Swan Lake and <strong>the</strong> Vari<strong>at</strong>ions on<br />
a Rococo <strong>The</strong>me for cello and orchestra.<br />
Th<strong>at</strong> same year, Tchaikovsky began exchanging<br />
letters <strong>with</strong> a wealthy widower,<br />
Nadezhda von Meck, who offered to support<br />
him financially (and emotionally) on<br />
<strong>the</strong> ra<strong>the</strong>r strange condition th<strong>at</strong> nei<strong>the</strong>r<br />
of <strong>the</strong>m should ever meet. Overwhelmed<br />
by her generosity, he responded <strong>with</strong> three<br />
axiom<strong>at</strong>ic, storm-tossed masterworks:<br />
<strong>the</strong> symphonic fantasia Francesca da<br />
<strong>The</strong> grave of Tchaikovsky.<br />
Photo by Steven N. Severinghaus.<br />
Rimini, <strong>the</strong> Fourth Symphony and <strong>the</strong><br />
opera Eugene Onegin.<br />
At <strong>the</strong> very height of his powers, Tchaikovsky<br />
<strong>the</strong>n took <strong>the</strong> appallingly ill-advised<br />
step of marrying a psychologically<br />
wayward admirer of his, Antonina Milyukova.<br />
Tormented and repulsed, after only<br />
a few weeks he escaped to <strong>the</strong> Caucases<br />
where he suffered a nervous collapse having<br />
made a bungled <strong>at</strong>tempt <strong>at</strong> suicide. It<br />
took him nearly ten years to recover fully<br />
artistically, for whilst a number of works<br />
he composed during <strong>the</strong> early/mid 1880s<br />
are highly popular today (<strong>the</strong> Capriccio Italien,<br />
Serenade for Strings and 1812 Overture,<br />
in particular), <strong>the</strong> music of this period,<br />
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