Program Book / October 10, 2022 / CAMA Presents the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Mirga Gražinytė‑Tyla and Sheku Kanneh‑Mason
The Board of Directors of Community Arts Music Association dedicate this concert to the memory of Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II and of Her Majesty's 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms, and the Commonwealth. MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022, 7:30PM City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Mirga Gražinytė‑Tyla, Music Director Sheku Kanneh‑Mason, cello The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is the flagship of musical life in Birmingham—and one of the world’s great orchestras. The tradition began with their very first concert back in 1920—conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. The CBSO became internationally famous when conductor Simon Rattle took the helm in 1980. In 2016, the CBSO welcomed the appointment of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, a native of Vilnius, Lithuania, as its Music Director, following her time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a Dudamel Fellow, Assistant Conductor, and Associate Conductor. British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason became a household name in 2018 after performing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle, watched by nearly two billion people globally. Sheku’s album Elgar on the Decca Classical label made him the first cellist in history to reach the UK Top 10. PROGRAM: RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis SIR EDWARD ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85 MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG: “Jewish Rhapsody,” from Festive Scenes, Op.36 CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La Mer PRE-CONCERT LECTURE: Jennifer Kloetzel, Professor, Cello and Head of Strings, UCSB Department of Music Sullivan Goss Art Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara Doors open 5:45PM ⫽ Lecture 6:00–6:40PM Presented by the CAMA Women’s Board •
The Board of Directors of Community Arts Music Association dedicate this concert to the memory of
Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II and of Her Majesty's 70 years of service to the people of the
United Kingdom, the Realms, and the Commonwealth.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022, 7:30PM
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė‑Tyla, Music Director
Sheku Kanneh‑Mason, cello
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is the flagship of musical life in Birmingham—and one of the world’s great orchestras. The tradition began with their very first concert back in 1920—conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. The CBSO became internationally famous when conductor Simon Rattle took the helm in 1980. In 2016, the CBSO welcomed the appointment of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, a native of Vilnius, Lithuania, as its Music Director, following her time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a Dudamel Fellow, Assistant Conductor, and Associate Conductor. British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason became a household name in 2018 after performing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle, watched by nearly two billion people globally. Sheku’s album Elgar on the Decca Classical label made him the first cellist in history to reach the UK Top 10.
PROGRAM:
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
SIR EDWARD ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85
MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG: “Jewish Rhapsody,” from Festive Scenes, Op.36
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La Mer
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE:
Jennifer Kloetzel, Professor, Cello and Head of Strings, UCSB Department of Music
Sullivan Goss Art Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara
Doors open 5:45PM ⫽ Lecture 6:00–6:40PM
Presented by the CAMA Women’s Board
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THE CITY OF
BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Photo by Hannah Fathers
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
(CBSO) is the flagship of musical
life in Birmingham and the West Midlands,
and one of the world’s great orchestras.
Based in Symphony Hall, Birmingham,
the CBSO typically presents over 150 concerts
each year in Birmingham, the UK
and around the world, playing music that
ranges from classics to contemporary, film
scores and even symphonic disco. With a
far-reaching community programme and a
family of choruses and ensembles, it is involved
in every aspect of music-making in
the Midlands. But at its centre is a team of
90 superb professional musicians, and over
a 100-year tradition of making the world’s
greatest music in the heart of Birmingham.
That local tradition started with the
orchestra’s very first symphonic concert
in 1920—conducted by Sir Edward Elgar.
Ever since then, through war, recessions,
social change and civic renewal, the CBSO
has been proud to be Birmingham’s orchestra.
Under principal conductors including
Adrian Boult, George Weldon, Andrzej
Panufnik and Louis Frémaux, the CBSO
won an artistic reputation that spread far
beyond the Midlands. But it was when it
discovered the young British conductor Simon
Rattle in 1980 that the CBSO became
internationally famous—and showed how
the arts can help give a new sense of direction
to a whole city.
Rattle’s successors Sakari Oramo and
Andris Nelsons helped cement that global
reputation and continued to build on the
CBSO’s tradition of flying the flag for Birmingham.
And under the dynamic leadership
of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the CBSO
continued to do what it does best—playing
great music for the people of Birmingham,
the Midlands, and beyond. In September
of last year, the Orchestra announced that
Japanese conductor Kazuki Yamada had
been appointed as its Chief Conductor and
Artistic Advisor with effect from 1 April
2023—having been the Orchestra’s Principal
Guest Conductor since October 2018.
CAMA AT THE GRANADA THEATRE • CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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