2013 Orchestras

Twenty-five programs were submitted for the 2013 Spring For Music festival in the fall of 2010. Twenty-one programs were posted online (two orchestras requested that their programs not be posted). Six programs have been selected for inclusion in the 2013 S4M festival. They are:

BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Marin Alsop, music director
(May 6, 2013)

ALBANY SYMPHONY David Alan Miller, music director
(May 7, 2013)

BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA JoAnn Falletta, music director
(May 8, 2013)

OREGON SYMPHONY Carlos Kalmar, music director
(May 9, 2013)

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leonard Slatkin, music director
(May 10, 2013)

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Christoph Eschenbach, music director
(May 11, 2013)

NOTE:  While orchestras selected are not eligible to apply for consecutive years, please note that the Albany Symphony and Oregon Symphony have been selected in 2011 and again in 2013.

PROGRAMS

Monday, May 6, 2013
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Marin Alsop, music director

John Adams: Shaker Loops
Jennifer Higdon: Concerto 4-3
Time for Three, string trio
New York Premiere
*****
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4 (1947 version)

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
David Alan Miller, music director

John Harbison: Suite from The Great Gatsby
New York premiere
George Gershwin: Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra
Kevin Cole, piano
*****
Morton Gould: Symphony No. 3
New York premiere of original version

Wednesday, May 8, 2013
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
JoAnn Falletta, music director

Giya Kancheli: “Morning Prayers” from Life Without Christmas
*****
Reinhold Glière: Symphony No. 3, “Ilya Muromets”

Thursday, May 9, 2013
OREGON SYMPHONY
Carlos Kalmar, music director

Narong Prangcharoen: Phenomenon
Kurt Weill: Seven Deadly Sins
Storm Large, vocalist
*****
Arnold Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Film Score
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”
Maurice Ravel: La Valse

Friday, May 10, 2013
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leonard Slatkin, music director

“IVES IMMERSION”
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 1
*****
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2
*****
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 3
*****
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 4

Saturday, May 11, 2013
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Christoph Eschenbach, music director

“A TRIBUTE TO SLAVA”
Alfred Schnittke: Symphony No. 6
*****
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5